Society of St. Oliver Plunkett: June 2016

26 June 2016

26th June - Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

               Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
                               Sunday 26th June at 5pm
                                   St. Patrick's Church,
                                 College Rd., Kilkenny
                     Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

The Lord is the strength of His people,
and the protector of the salvation of
His anointed: save, O Lord, Thy people,
and bless Thine inheritance, and rule
them for ever.

19 June 2016

19th June - Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

               Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
                         Sunday 19th June at 5pm
                                  St. Patrick's Church,
                                College Rd., Kilkenny
                           Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Hear, O Lord, my voice with which I have cried to Thee:
be Thou my helper, forsake me not, do not Thou despise me,
O God, my Saviour.

10 June 2016

12th June - Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

              Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
                           Sunday 12th June at 5pm
                                    St. Patrick's Church,
                                 College Rd., Kilkenny
                     Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

The Lord is my light and my salvation:
whom shall I fear? The Lord is the
protector of my life: of whom shall
I be afraid? Mine enemies that trouble
me have themselves been weakened
and have fallen.

03 June 2016

5th June - Third Sunday after Pentecost

Third Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday 5th June at 5pm
St. Patrick's Church,
College Rd., Kilkenny
Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Look Thou upon me, O Lord, and have mercy
on me; for I am alone and poor. See mine
abjection and my labour; and forgive me
all my sins, O my God,

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