Society of St. Oliver Plunkett: August 2016

20 August 2016

21st August - Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

             Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
                                Sunday 21st August at 5pm
                                  St. Patrick's Church,
                                College Rd., Kilkenny
                     Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Behold, O God, our protector, and look
on the face of Thy Christ: for better is
one day in Thy courts above thousands.

13 August 2016

14th August - Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday 14th August at 5pm
St. Patrick's Church,
College Rd., Kilkenny
Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Have regard, O Lord, to Thy covenant, and
forsake not to the end the souls of Thy poor:
arise, O Lord, and judge Thy cause, and forget
not the voices of them that seek Thee.

04 August 2016

7th August - Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

           Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
                    Sunday 7th August at 5pm
                                   St. Patrick's Church,
                            College Rd., Kilkenny
                        Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

O God, come to my assistance; O Lord,
make haste to help me: let mine enemies
be confounded and ashamed, who seek
my soul.

02 August 2016

31st July - Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

           Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
                             Sunday 31st July at 5pm
                                   St. Patrick's Church,
                                 College Rd., Kilkenny
                     Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

God in His holy place; God who maketh
men of one mind to dwell in a house;
He shall give power and strength
to His people.

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