Darver & Dromiskin Parish January 3rd 2021 Second Sunday of
Christmas
Priest: Fr. Pat McEnroe PP Ph: 042-9379147 0ur Parish email
address: [email protected] Priests of Our Lady Queen
of Peace Pastoral Area:
Fr. Gerry Campbell, P.P. Kilkerley & Knockbridge 042
9374125: Fr. Brian MacRaois Kilkerley, 042 6827409, Fr. Seán
McArdle, P.P. Louth, 042 9374285 Website address:
ourladyqueenofpeacepa.org.
BAPTISMS
BY ARRANGEMENT
042– 9379147
Parents to avail of Parish Baptismal Programme. Daily Mass Times
St. Peter’s Dromiskin:
Mon. Mass & Novena @ 7pm & Wed. & Fri 9.30am St.
Michael’s Darver: Tues., Thurs. @ 9.30am
Weekend Masses: Sat. Vigil St. Peter’s 7.00pm & Sun. St
Michael’s @ 10.30am
SPECIAL PARISH DATES FOR 2021
First Communion:
St. Michael’s Darver: Sat. 8th May
St. Peter’s Dromiskin: Sat. 15th May
Confirmation
St. Michael’s Darver: Sat. 22nd May
St. Peter’s Dromiskin: Sun. 23rd May
THE BIBLE IS FOR YOU!
Today’s gospel passage is the prologue to St John’s gospel, a
very deep teaching on the mystery of the incarnation. But do
not
let yourself be intimidated by the depth; remember that it
was
written for you; like the whole Bible, it was “for you and
for
your salvation that it came down from heaven.”
St. Michael’s Darver .
Sun Jan 3rd 10.30am People of the Parish. Sun. Jan. 10th 10.30am
M.M Kathleen Wallace.
Av. Frank, Mary Anne, Marie ,Kathleen, Rose
Frankie & baby Kieran.
St Peter’s Dromiskin
Sat. Jan. 2nd 7.00pm Av. Margaret & John Matthews.
Intentions of all who prayed for Anthony Langan. Sat. Jan. 09th
7.00pm Av. Briege Reilly.
Recently Deceased: Please pray for: Kieran Quinn, Brendan
Bellew, Christy Clarke, Muriel Hamill, Seamus
Brady, Mary McQuillan, John Carroll, Eve Anne Kelly & Ann
Toner.
GOSPEL MATTERS
The year 2020 was like no other we have known. It will be
remembered all through our lives
and far beyond. It is the fourth worldwide pandemic in three
hundred years.
1720, Black Death: 1820, Cholera: 1920, Spanish flu: 2020, Covid
19. Every hundred years
for three centuries. On March 12th 2020, I was in school around
12.30pm when the
government declared a country wide shut down. Lockdown,
shutdown, closed, stay at home;
no meetings or contacts outside of home. It was called
cocooning. No travel, no schools, no
Masses for the public. Congregations could not assemble.
Weddings, First Penance, First
Eucharist, Confirmation: all cancelled indefinitely. God rest
those who died. Funerals were
brutal because of restrictions and isolation. Those grieving
were denied the traditional
healing support that we, Irish, are so good at. If stones could
cry! The experience of this
pandemic was away beyond that of anybody living in Ireland. We
all felt so vulnerable,
helpless and powerless. It was as if all that we had did not now
matter. What we had could
not protect us. Wash your hands, keep your social distance i.e.
6 feet: and no congregating.
For some time it was grossly unclear whether the outdoors were
safer or more dangerous
than indoors. Many of us stayed indoors. Later we were told that
the outdoors were 18 times
safer than indoors.
But during these terrible times truly wonderful and heroic
things were happening. A nation
of volunteers stepped forward offering whatever was needed.
Visits/shopping for those living
alone, and the elderly. Simply keeping in touch in person or by
phones and other technology.
Then we had those front-liners: they risked their own lives to
protect us and some of them
paid the price. God rest them. I continue to be deeply moved
when I think of these
wonderful, fearless, loving, protecting and life-giving people.
They are the best of who we
are. I salute you one and all. You are shining lights and
inspirational. Thank you.
For 2021 I invite us all to care and keep a caring eye in family
and neighbourhood.
Be courageous and wise enough to pray daily. I really hope you
will have a purpose to get out of bed each morning asking God’s
help. And every night before you sleep to have reason
to thank God for your day. IN 2021 may God protect and keep us
all close, healthy and safe.
Happy 2021
PARISH €OTTO RESULTS October 12th 2020
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Epiphany of the Lord: Holy day with obligations. Masses: Tues.
5th Jan. in St. Peter’s, Dromiskin @ 7.00pm: Wed. 6th Jan. St.
Michael’s, Darver 10.30am
Christmas is now something we are beginning to talk about as
having happened: ‘How did you get
over Christmas?’ are the opening words of many of
our conversations at the moment.
But for us Christians we are still trying to reach
some of the depths of what it means to confess
that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
So we have gathered here to offer thanks to the
Father through Christ, while in our readings we will
be trying to make sense of what it means to say that
‘Christ has come among us.’ I LOVE THIS QUOTE
“Far from being the ultimate measure of all things,
human beings can only realize themselves by reaching beyond
themselves"..... Pope Paul VI. Beyond ourselves = God.
Lord, humanity today wants to live independently of You,
and even Christians speak as if You created the world and
then left it to its own devices. But St John reminds us that
all things come to be only because You speak a Word, and
that every single thing that exists today has its being
because that Your Word continues to be spoken in it, and
the only way that anything which has come to be and
continues to have life today is because Your Word lives
within it.
