Society of St. Oliver Plunkett: September 2015

30 September 2015

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

                     Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole PP
                             Sunday 4th October at 5pm
                                   St.Patrick's Church

College Rd. Kilkenny

I am the salvation of the people, saith the Lord: in whatever tribulation they shall cry
to Me, I will hear them; and I will be their Lord for ever.

26 September 2015

      Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

                          Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole PP
                             Sunday 27th September at 5pm.
                                 ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH
                                     College Rd, Kilkenny

Give peace, O Lord, to them that patiently wait for Thee, that Thy prophets may be found faithful: hear the prayers of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel.

19 September 2015

                    Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
                                          SUNG MASS (MISSA CANTATA)
                                                         (1962 Missal)

                                        Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole PP
                                           Sunday 20th September at 5pm.
                                              ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH
                                                   College Rd, Kilkenny

Thou art just, O Lord, and Thy judgment is right; deal with Thy servant according to Thy mercy.

07 September 2015

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to Thee all the day; for Thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon Thee. Bow down Thine ear to me, O Lord, and hear me; for I am needy and poor.

Mass at 5pm, St Patrick's Church, College Rd, Kilkenny, Sunday 13^th September

Celebrant: Rev Thomas O’Toole PP

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