Society of St. Oliver Plunkett: January 2016

28 January 2016

31 January - Sexagesima Sunday

                      Sexagesima Sunday
                       Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole
                            Sunday 31th January at 5pm
                                    St.Patrick's Church
                                 College Rd., Kilkenny
                     Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Arise, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arise, and cast us not off to
the end. Why turnest Thou Thy face away, and forgettest
our trouble? Our belly hath cleaved to the earth: arise, O Lord,
help us and deliver us.

20 January 2016

24th January - Septuagesima Sunday

                     Septuagesima Sunday
                        Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O' Toole
                                    Sunday 24th January at 5pm
                                     St.Patrick's Church
                                  College Rd., Kilkenny
                           Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

The sorrows of death surrounded me,
the sorrows of hell encompassed me:
and in my affliction I called upon the Lord,
and He heard my voice from His holy temple.

13 January 2016

17th January - Second Sunday after the Epiphany

          Second Sunday after the Epiphany
                        Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole
                            Sunday 17th January at 5pm
                                     St.Patrick's Church
                                  College Rd., Kilkenny
                      Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Let all the earth adore Thee, O God, and
sing to Thee: let it sing a psalm to Thy
Name, O Most High.

08 January 2016

10th January - Feast of the Holy Family

                     Feast of the Holy Family
                     Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole
                               Sunday 10th January at 5pm
                                      St.Patrick's Church
                                   College Rd., Kilkenny
                        Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

The father of the Just rejoiceth greatly, let Thy father and Thy mother
be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore Thee.

04 January 2016

6th January - Epiphany of Our Lord

                 The Epiphany of Our Lord
                  Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole
                         Wednesday 6th January at 5pm
                                    St.Patrick's Church
                                 College Rd., Kilkenny

Behold the Lord the Ruler is come: and the Kingdom is
in His Hand, and power and dominion.

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