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Holy Cross, Dundrum SUNDAY 11th June 2017

www.dundrumparish.com

pastoral area

Incorporating the parishes of Dundrum, Ballinteer &

MeadowbrooK

Mass Times Saturday:

Vigil 6.00pm, 10am (Meadowbrook)

Sunday :

9.00am 10.30am (Family Mass)

12.00 noon (Choir)

Monday – Friday 10.30am

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Saturday 5.30pm & on request after weekday Mass

PARISH TEAM Fr. Kieran McDermott Co-PP

Tel. 01-2984348.

Fr. John Bracken Co-PP.

Tel. 01. 2983557 Mob. 087 1120457

Fr. Liam Belton (Moderator)

Ballinteer Tel. 01. 4944448

Team Assistants

Fr Donal O’Doherty (Pastor Emeritus—Retired),

Fr. Christopher & Fr. Fidelis -

75 Ludford Drive 01—2987401

Deacon—Rev. Gabriel Corcoran

Faith Development Co-Ordinator

Annette Farrell

PARISH OFFICE

Mon.— Fri. 9.30am-12.30pm

Tel. 01. 2983494

Email : [email protected]

Parish Secretaries

Vivienne Tobin & Brenda O’Beirne

Ballinteer Parish 01 4994203

Meadowbrook Parish 01 2987401

MUSINGS: Dynamic Activity of Love

All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that

‘God is love.’ But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is

love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Per-

sons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If

God was a single person, then before the world was made, he was

not love. Of course, what these people mean when they say that

God is love is often something quite different: they really mean

‘Love is God.’ They really mean that our feelings of love, however

and wherever they arise, and whatever results they produce, are to

be treated with great respect. Perhaps they are: but that is some-

thing quite different from what Christians mean by the statement

‘God is love.’ They believe that the living, dynamic activity of love

has been going on in God forever and has created everything else.

If you think of the Father as something ‘out there’, in front of you,

and of the Son as someone standing at your side, helping you to

pray, trying to turn you into another son, then you have to think of

the third Person as something inside you, or behind you. Perhaps

some people might find it easier to begin with the third Person and

work backwards. God is love, and that love works through human

beings – especially through the whole community of Christians. But

this spirit of love is, from all eternity, a love going on between the

Father and the Son.

From Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

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Introduction to the Scripture Readings

Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 — God is described in terms of tenderness and

compassion, kindness and faithfulness.

2 Corinthians 13:11-13 — A plea by Paul for unity in the Church, in the

grace of Jesus, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

John 3:16-18 — Jesus came to show God’s love for the world: no one

who believes will be condemned.

PRAYER FOR PEACE

St Joseph’s Young Priest’s Society

Annual Pilgrimage to KNOCK

SATURDAY 24TH JUNE

Bus departs Goat Grill car park 8 .00am, BoI

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Church gate Collection this weekend after all

Masses.

With Thanks for your ongoing Support!

Autumn Holy Land Pilgrimages

This is a unique opportunity to visit the Holy Land staying in Bethlehem, Jerusalem and

Tiberias and visiting all of the sacred places as-sociated with the life of Our Lord.

MAP Travel have pilgrimages throughout the year and have a small number of places left on 13 September and 11 October this year, each

accompanied by a Spiritual Director.

Full details from MAP Travel (01) 8783111 or

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DUNDRUM TOWN CENTRE have this

week installed a ticket-car barrier

system in the Car Park beside the

church. The system will be similar to

the ‘old village car park’. Free Parking

will be available only at Mass times.

Entry to the car park will be via the main St

EXIT from the car park will be onto

the Dundrum by-pass

With the kind permission of the Board of

Management of Holy Cross School car parking is

also available in their car park.

EXAM PRAYER Lord, as I prepare for these examinations, let your strength and your wisdom be present to me.

May I revise my work thoroughly. May I understand what it is I have to know. May my memory be reliable and orderly. May I be calm and focused on the

task ahead. May I know and feel the love and support of my family and friends. And may You, the author and creator of all things, enlighten me.

ANDREY RUBLEV’S ICON OF THE TRINITY

Six hundred years ago not many people went to school. Not

many kids learned how to read and write. And if you don’t

know how to read and write, then you wouldn’t be able to

read a Bible. So to help people understand God 600 years

ago, church ministers used to paint pictures so that people

who couldn’t read and write could still learn about God.

What can we learn about God from this picture? All three

people have exactly the same circle, the same

“halo” (nimbus) around their heads. That’s the glow of God.

Now these three people are wearing four colours – green;

brown; blue; gold. Six hundred years ago, blue was the colour

people painted God. Blue was God’s colour. Three people, all

with circle halos around their heads. All wearing blue, the

colour of God. So the painter of this picture was saying that

these three people are God.

What are the three people holding? They are all holding a long stick. Exactly the same length. Look at their hands.

What hand is holding the stick? All three right hands are holding the stick. Now look at their other hands; all the left

hands have two fingers pointing down. We can see that the painter is saying that these people are the same; same

halos; same blue, the colour for God; same way of holding a staff in the same right hand; same way of point their fin-

gers. Three people, who are God, who are all exactly the same.

Yet as well as being exactly the same, these three people are also different.

One person has Green, the side closest to us. Green is the colour of spring, the colour of things that grow; that green

person is the Holy Spirit of God – who wants you, and this church, to be green and grow.

One person has Brown. Brown is the colour of dirt. That brown person is Jesus, who came to earth, put his feet on

the ground, felt dirt between his felt.

One person is Gold. That person is God the Father; gold because of the beauty and God who created a beautiful

earth. The painter is using a picture to tell us about God. That God is three persons: Spirit in green to help us grow;

Jesus in brown walking in the dirt; the Father in gold who created this beautiful earth

Holy Cross Church14 Main St, Dundrum

Dublin 14

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