Dear Friends,
Today is the19th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
I will be in the Loreto Centre in Llandudno, Wales from Tuesday, 12th August until Tuesday,19th August, giving a preached retreat.
Saint of the Week – St. Maximilian Kolbe, OFM, Conv (1894 – 1941), Thursday, 14thAugust.
Raymond Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894. He entered the Conventual Franciscans (they have a church in Fairview), when he took the religious name Maximilian. He went to study at the Gregorian University in Rome in 1912 and gained a Doctorate in Philosophy in 1915. He was ordained priest in 1918 and then gained a Doctorate in Theology in 1919. He taught in a seminary in Cracow, Poland. Between 1930 and1936, he worked in China, Japan and India. In 1936, he returned to Poland where he established two Conventual Franciscan friaries.
During World War II, he hid around 2,000 Jews from the Nazis. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp where he was Prisoner Number16670. He offered his life in exchange for the life of a young married man and father. Maximilian was executed by lethal injection on August 14th, 1941. He was canonized by Pope Saint John Paul II on October 10th, 1982. He is the patron saint of drug addicts.
Maximilian famously said:
The most deadly poison of our time is indifference.
Fr. Brendan
FRONT OFFICEOPENING HOURS (11th-18th AUGUST)
Monday to Friday from 11 am to 1 pm. Weekend hours remain unchanged.
BL. JOHNSULLIVAN SJ MONTHLY MASS
The monthly Mass in honour of Blessed John Sullivan SJ will be celebrated on Saturday 16thAugust at 1 pm.
GARDINER STREETCHURCH READING CLUB
The Reading Club will begin on Monday, September 1st. The following session will be on Monday, 29th September. After that, each session will be on every second Monday from 10.00am to 12.00pm . The book for reading and discussion is The Essence of Prayer by Ruth Burrows OCD.
NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF KNOCK
The annual Knock novena takes place from August 13 to August 21. The theme this year is “Pilgrims of Hope” as we continue to celebrate this Jubilee year. You can attend in-person or online at www.knockshrine.ie. There is a great variety of speakers at two masses each day which take place at 3pm and 8pm. It’s an opportunity to renew our faith and to hear from women and men with different perspectives on our church and the role faith plays in our society.
Fr. Niall Leahy SJ is scheduled to preach on Tuesday, 19th August with the topic “Our Place in the Garden: Living with Humility in Creation.”
DAY OF PRAYER AND REFLECTION FOR GAZA – AUGUST 24
MESSAGE FROMARCHBISHOP FARRELL
I invite all parishes in the Archdiocese to dedicate Sunday 24th August as a special day of prayer and reflection for Gaza and for a renewed commitment by the international community for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. This appeal, which I am making in conjunction with Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, unites us in prayer before God, crying out for an end to all the terror and violence being perpetrated with tragic results for all.
May we all be a sign, by our prayer and action, that a different world is possible, and that a route to peace and reconciliation can and must be found through dialogue.
+Dermot Farrell, Archbishop of Dublin
LAST WEEKCOLLECTION
Church: € 708;Share collection: € 125.