Notices Carrigaline Citizen Information, Lions Youth Centre, Church Road We are a free, confidential, advice and advocacy service on all your rights and entitlements, income support, disability information, family matters plus many other topics. Opening hours 10:00 - 1:30 Tues, Wed and Thurs. Tel 0761 07 6940. The Irish Cancer Society’s Daffodil Centres (Cork University Hospital and the Bon Secours): Looking for volunteers to support cancer patients and their families. Duties will include - welcoming patients and their families into the centre, talking, listening and identify- ing their needs. Then signposting them to appropriate sources of information and support. Training will be provided. For more information please contact: Deirdre Murphy on 01 231 0564 or email [email protected] Day of Recollection at St. Benedict's Priory, Cobh, Co.Cork. The theme is "Seeking God in Family/Community Life with the Servant of God, Marie Adele Garnier, through her writ- ings" Saturday 27th January. 9am- 3.30pm. Lunch provided. Cost:Donation. 021 4811354 [email protected] HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE EX CORK Walk in the footsteps of Jesus April 20-28 2018. This trip of a lifetime (fully guided) Highlights: A boat trip on the Sea of Galilee, visits to Nazareth, Cana, Jericho, The Dead Sea, Jerusalem, The Mount of Olives, Bethle- hem, etc. Trip includes: Return flights ex Cork, a comprehensive daily programme, entrance fees, 4* Hotels, dinner bed and breakfast throughout. Spiritual Director Fr Liam Crow- ley. For further Information and details please contact M AP Travel 01-8783111 or Tour Man- ager Jim Keogh 021 4885371 Mobile 087 2678793. Places are limited, allocated on first come first served Scór na bPáistí: Sunday Jan 28 th in Marian Hall Ballinhassig at 2.pm. Children in all Na- tional Schools are invited to compete. Contact your school, Sheila Murphy 087 768 6112 or Barry Cogan 087 8137990 Carrigaline Active Retired AGM: Thurs 25 th Jan at 2.30pm in the Parish Centre. Counselling at Low Cost: Are you in need of support and looking to talk to someone. Tel Alan 087 7474421. Wanted Maths Grinds for Higher Level Leaving Cert Student: Tel 0879034623 HealthCare Professional Carers Training Programme for Jobseekers: Comprehensive & Accredited Professional Training, Free of Charge. Applicants must be in receipt of Job Seekers / Social Welfare payment to qualify for entry. Places will be allocated through an inter- view process. Commencing on 20 th March 2018 (12 Day Course). 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St. Vincent de Paul, Carrigaline for confidenal support call 270444 4 Sunday (B), 28 January, 2018 Readings Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalm 95 (94); 1 Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28 4 Sunday Year B 28 January 2018 About Mass Pope Francis uses the Wednesday audiences in St Peter’s square to teach us about living our faith. (In the cold weather the audiences are in the Paul XVI Hall) The theme he has chosen these Wednesdays is to help us beer appreciate and value the Mass. Pope Francis recognises that the importance of Sundays is diminished in our culture. “ We have lost the sense of Sunday”, he said. He answers quesons about the Mass so we can rediscover the great giſt God had given us. For example; Why do we make the sign of the Cross and Penitenal Rite at the beginning of Mass? What do the Readings at Mass mean? What is their purpose? Mass is not a show: it is going to meet the Lord. St Thomas the Apostle wanted to see and touch the nail wounds in Jesus’ body, in order to believe in him. What St Thomas asks of the Lord is what we all need: to see him, to touch him so that we may be able to know him. The Mass meets this human need, through what we touch and what we see. Why go to Mass on Sun- days? What can we answer one who says there is no need to go to Mass because what is important is to live well, to love one's neigh- bour? The Chrisan Sunday revolves around the Mass. What sort of Sunday is it without the encounter with the Lord? It's true that the quality of a Chrisan life is measured by the capacity to love.(Jn 13:35) But how can we pracce the Gospel without drawing the necessary energy to do so, Sunday aſter Sunday? We go to Mass not to give something to God, but to receive the grace and strength to remain faithful, with Him in us and among us. In today’s First Reading Moses announces God’s intenon to raise up a new prophet, into whose mouth God will put his own words. The Gospel shows how this new prophet is Jesus him- self, the great prophet for all mes. Jesus makes a deep impres- sion on the people because he speaks authority. He knows what he is talking about. His authority raises the lowly and fills the hun- gry. He includes people who are kept outside. It is the authority of the good Samaritan who looked aſter the vicm on the side of the road. We hear it, Sunday aſter Sunday, if we let it in.