Society of St. Oliver Plunkett: April 2016

27 April 2016

1st May - St. Joseph the Worker

                      St. Joseph the Worker
            High Mass with Gregorian Chant
                                 Sunday 1st May at 5pm
                                     St. Patrick's Church,
                                   College Rd., Kilkenny

Wisdom rendered to the just the wages
of their labours and conducted them in
a wonderful way; and she was to them
for a covert by day and for the light
of stars by night; alleluia, alleluia.

22 April 2016

24th April - Fourth Sunday after Easter

                  Fourth Sunday after Easter
                               Sunday 24th April at 5pm
                                   St. Patrick's Church,
                                 College Rd., Kilkenny
                      Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle, alleluia,
for the Lord hath done wonderful things,
alleluia; He hath revealed His justice in
the sight of the Gentiles, alleluia, alleluia
alleluia.

13 April 2016

17th April - Third Sunday after Easter

                   Third Sunday after Easter
    HIGH MASS WITH GREGORIAN CHANT
                               Sunday 17th April at 5pm
                                    St. Patrick's Church
                                  College Rd., Kilkenny

Shout with joy to God, all the earth, alleluia: sing ye a
psalm to His Name, alleluia: give glory to His praise
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

07 April 2016

10th April - Second Sunday after Easter

     Second Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday)
                        Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole
                               Sunday 10th April at 5pm
                                     St. Patrick's Church
                                   College Rd., Kilkenny
                      Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord,
alleluia: by the word of the Lord the
heavens were established, alleluia, alleluia.

Benedict XVI on the Litrugy

“The Church stands and falls with the Liturgy. When the adoration of the divine Trinity declines, when the faith no longer appears in its fullness in the Liturgy of the Church, when man’s words, his thoughts, his intentions are suffocating him, then faith will have lost the place where it is expressed and where it dwells. For that reason, the true celebration of the Sacred Liturgy is the centre of any renewal of the Church whatever.”

"The Holy Mass, celebrated in the respect of the liturgical norms and with a fitting appreciation of the richness of the signs and gestures, fosters and promotes the growth of Eucharistic faith. In the Eucharistic celebration we do not invent something, but we enter into a reality that precedes us, more than that, which embraces heaven and earth and, hence, also the past, the future and the present."

"This universal openness, this encounter with all the sons and daughters of God is the grandeur of the Eucharist: we go to meet the reality of God present in the body and blood of the Risen One among us. Hence, the liturgical prescriptions dictated by the Church are not external things, but express concretely this reality of the revelation of the body and blood of Christ and thus the prayer reveals the faith according to the ancient principle 'lex orandi – lex credendi."

"And because of this we can say "the best catechesis on the Eucharist is the Eucharist itself well celebrated" (Benedict XVI, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Sacramentum Caritatis," No. 64).
"It is necessary that in the liturgy the transcendent dimension emerge with clarity, that of the mystery, of the encounter with the Divine, which also illumines and elevates the "horizontal," that is the bond of communion and of solidarity that exists between all those who belong to the Church."

"In fact, when the latter prevails, the beauty, profundity and importance of the mystery celebrated is fully understood. Dear brothers in the priesthood, to you the bishop has entrusted, on the day of your priestly Ordination, the task to preside over the Eucharist. Always have at heart the exercise of this mission: celebrate the divine mysteries with intense interior participation, so that the men and women of our City can be sanctified, put into contact with God, absolute truth and eternal love."

Society of St. Oliver Plunkett

Pope Benedict XVI