Second Sunday in Ordinary Time > B 17th Jan 2021
Recently Deceased: Pa Roche, Rosanna, Tipperary Town; Peggy Pyne, Bank Place, Tipperary; Mary Cleary, James Connolly Park, Tipperary Town; Aodh Kennedy, Bansha;
Month’s Mind: Martin Maguire, London & late of Marian Tce, Tipperary Town;
Anniversaries: Edmond & Annie Gammell; Paddy O’Regan; Tom Greene; Tony Danaher; Timmy Fitzgerald (1st Anniversary); Keith Martin; Michael Lynch; John Bennett; Tom McGrath; Philomena & Patrick McGrath; Ned Buckley; Joe & Joan Lonergan; Peter McGrath; Paddy Kennedy; Bridget Jess; Michael Higgins; John & Teresa Quinn & granddaughter Majella Barry; Hannie Reale; Gerry & Eilish Haslim; Kitty & Paddy O’Shea; Seán Murphy; Mike & Teresa Kelly (Doon); Eileen O’Dwyer; Deceased Bourke Family; Breda O’Neill; Con Redican; Dolores O’Riordan; Edmund (Ned) Ryan; Margaret Ryan (Simon) & son Michael; Tommy Ryan (L); J.J. Bennett; Margaret Andrews; Tom Lonergan; James, Bridget & Tom Rea; Mary O’Donoghue; Laura Quinn; Thomas Joseph David Slater(1st Anniversary); Catherine Daniel; Michael Lynch; Tommy & Kitty Withero; Annie Ryan (1st Anniversary); Katie O’Brien; Catherine Cronin; John White; Glen of Aherlow; James & Mary McGrath, Cappawhite; Patrick & Johanna Hickey; James & Mary Carew; Josephine Fitzgerald, Solohead;
No Public Mass: Due to the Level 5 restrictions mass will be celebrated Online and on Tipp Mid West Radio only until further notice. Weekday Mass at 10.15am and Sunday at 11.00am. There will be no Baptisms, Confessions and Funeral Masses are restricted to 10 people in attendance.
Parish Office & Sacristy: Remains closed until the Government Level 5 restrictions end .
Prayers of the Faithful : Second Sunday of the Year 17th Jan 2020
The Lord calls us to serve him in our outreach to others. We ask him help:
- Today, we make heart-felt prayer for the survivors of the Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes whose sufferings have been revealed by the Commission of Enquiry, published last Tuesday. We pray that we, as a nation-wide Church community, will learn how best to extend to them due recognition of their dignity, provide best practical support now and into the future and, by our sorrow for the wrongs inflicted on them by Church personnel, offer some measure of healing of their painful deep-down wounds.
Lord, hear us.
- We pray for those who did not survive their time in the Mother and Baby Homes and the County Homes: the thousands of babies and infants who died due to disease or to neglect, and we pray for the little ones who were not accorded the dignity of a proper Christian burial.
Lord, hear us.
- We pray for the mothers and babies who lived through the trauma of life in these Institutions and who, in the intervening years, died still burdened by shame, stigma, and the abiding pain of their soul-destroying mistreatment.
Lord, hear us.
- We pray for all women who, in our time, suffer humiliating and degrading treatment in any setting in life, and for all children of our land who are neglected or harshly dealt with or are left homeless or consigned to poverty.
Lord, hear us.
God our Father, in your boundless love receive the prayers we raise with feeble words, and bestow blessings beyond what we can imagine. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Prayer of Spiritual Communion
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love you above all things and I desire to receive you into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally,
Please come spiritually into my heart.
I embrace you now as if you were already there,
and I unite myself wholly to you.
Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.
For Reflection:
Once all villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer, all the people gathered, but only one boy came with an umbrella. THAT IS FAITH
Every night we go to bed without any assurance of being alive the next morning, but we still set the alarm to wake up. THAT IS HOPE