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The Fortunate Faith of Audrey Assad

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Vatican will display relics of St. Peter for first time ever, to mark end of the Year of Faith

The Vatican announced that, for the first time in history, it will publicly display the relics of St. Peter, the very first Pope and original Bishop of Rome. It'll be a unique exhibit to mark the conclusion of the Year of Faith. Msgr. Rino Fisichella, president for the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, made the announcement in an editorial published in the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. The Apostle's remains will leave the Vatican Grotto for the celebrations, but exact details are not yet clear.

The tomb of St. Peter, located under the altar of the Vatican basilica, was unearthed during excavations in the mid-20the century. In 1968, after extensive research and testing, Pope Paul VI announced that relics of St. Peter had been identified. These relics have been kept in the grotto of the basilica, and never placed on public display.

The Year of Faith concludes on November 24, the feast of Christ the King. On November 21, Pope Francis will visit a cloistered monastery in Rome. On the 23, he will meet with cathechumens inside St. Peter's Basilica. The Year of Faith will conclude on Sunday, the 24th, with the Pope celebrating Mass at St. Peter's Square

10th November 2013 - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary time (Year C) - Monagea Parish Mission and an Update from Limerick Diocesan Pastoral Centre

On this weeks programme regular visitor Noirin Lynch from LDPC pops in to fill us in on what is happening around the diocese. We have a visit to Monagea parish to talk to the people of the parish about their parish mission. And for our regular readers we have our regular links to reflections on this weeks gospel and other liturgical odds and ends.
 
You can listen to the podcast of this weeks programme HERE.
 
A Catch up with the Limerick Diocesan Pastoral Centre
 

 
 
Noirin Lynch drops in for a chat this morning to give us an update on things happening around the diocese.
 
Gathering of Pastoral Councils - Beginning again on our Faith Journey: A celebration to mark the conclusion of the Year of Faith

 

When: Wed eve 20th November. 7:30-9:30pm

Where: Woodlands House Hotel, Adare.

 

Bishop Leahy invites all members of parish leadership groups in every parish, including clergy, to this celebratory gathering as we conclude the international Year of Faith. This will be a celebration of what has been accomplished, an opportunity to meet with your Bishop, and an invitation to ‘Go Out’ from the Year of Faith with new energy and ideas. Letters have been sent to clergy and parish council contacts, and each parish should reply with numbers by Friday 15th.
 
You can sign up for a weekly email newsletter each week HERE.
 
Link to Upcoming Events from Limerick Diocesan website
 
You can listen back to Noirin's conversation excerpted from main programme HERE.
 
Monagea Parish Mission
 

On this week's programme Lorraine speaks with Geraldine Mulqueen and Mary Roche, members of the Monagea Parish Pastoral Council, about their upcoming Parish Mission which will be led by the Redemptorist. Geraldine told us a little bit about the history of Monagea Church and some of the holy places in Monagea. Mary informed us about the mission which will be taking place from Sunday, November 17th to Friday, November 22nd. The parish mission is a time for the community to gather together and reflect on their faith. This is particularly appropriate as the Mission will take place just before the close of the Year of Faith.

The mission caters for all age groups with Morning Masses celebrated at 7.00am and 9.30am from Monday, November 18^th to Friday, November 22^nd. Evening Session takes place at 7.30pm (does notinclude Mass) from Sunday to Friday. The themes for each evening are: Sunday: A Celebration of Community; Monday: The Healing Power of God; Tuesday: Prayer and Faith in God’s Word; Wednesday: Reconciliation; Thursday: Life and the Sacraments; and Friday: We are God’s Family.

On Sunday, November 17^ththe 10.00am Mass will be followed by a Blessing of Babies and Young Children. On Thursday, November 21^st Mass of Anointing for the Sick and Elderly will be celebrated at 12noon followed by Refreshments in the Parish Hall. All are very welcome.

You can find out about the parish history HERE.
 
You can listen to the section of the programme about the Monegea parish mission HERE.
 
Gospel - Luke 20:27-38

 

There came to him some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died without children; and the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. Afterward the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife."

And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him."

Word on Fire
Sunday Reflections
English Domincans
Homiletic Diakonia
Centre for Liturgy
 
Liturgical Odds and Ends

Liturgy of the Hours - Week 4 psalter, 32nd week in ordinary time

Saints of the Week

November 11th - St Martin of Tours
November 12th - St Josaphat
November 13th - St Frances Xavier Cabrini
November 14th - St Lawrence O'Toole
November 15th - St Albert the Great
November 16th - St Margaret of Scotland - also here and also St Gertrude.