Society of St. Oliver Plunkett: December 2016

31 December 2016

1st January - Circumcision of Our Lord

            The Circumcision of Our Lord
                     Sunday January 1st at 5pm
                                  St. Patrick's Church,
                                College Rd., Kilkenny
                    Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

A Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, whose government
is upon His shoulders: and His Name shall be called the Angel
of great counsel.

21 December 2016

Christmas Mass Times

Christmas Mass Times:

December 24th: High Mass with Gregorian Chant at 9.30pm, St. Patrick's Church, College Rd., Kilkenny. Carols will be sung before Holy Mass at 9.10pm.

December 25th: Low Mass at 8.00am in St. Patrick's.

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Christ is born in Bethlehem!

16 December 2016

18th December - Fourth Sunday of Advent

                 Fourth Sunday of Advent
                   Sunday 18th December at 5pm
                                  St. Patrick's Church,
                                College Rd., Kilkenny
                      Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just:
let the earth be opened and bud forth a Saviour.

12 December 2016

11th December - Gaudete Sunday

                                       Gaudete Sunday
                                 Sunday 11th December at 5pm
                                  St. Patrick's Church,
                                College Rd., Kilkenny
                      Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

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02 December 2016

8th December - Annual Candlelight Rosary Procession

The 43rd Annual Candlelight Rosary Procession organised by the Fatima Apostolate will leave the Parade, Kilkenny City at 8pm on Thursday 8th December. This annual act of public honour to Our Blessed Mother has always taken place on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It proceeds through the streets of the city, ending at the old Dominican church, the Black Abbey, for Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. We would invite all of you to attend this procession and to give glory to the Holy Virgin Mary as we recite the Holy Rosary whilst walking through the streets. Enrolments in the Brown Scapular will also take place in the Black Abbey after Benediction. Candles will be available at the Parade before the public procession begins.

O Mary, conceived without sin, pray
for us who have recourse to thee!

01 December 2016

8th December - Feast of the Immaculate Conception

          Feast of the Immaculate Conception
HIGH MASS WITH GREGORIAN CHANT
              Mass on Thursday December 8th at 5pm
                                   St. Patrick's Church,
                                College Rd., Kilkenny

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, for my soul
shall be joyful in my God: for He hath clothed
me with the garments of salvation, and with
the robe of justice He hath covered me,
as a bride adorned with her jewels.

4th December - Second Sunday of Advent

                  Second Sunday of Advent
              HIGH MASS WITH GREGORIAN CHANT
                             Sunday 4th December at 5pm
                                    St. Patrick's Church,
                                  College Rd., Kilkenny

People of Sion, behold the Lord shall come to save
the nations: and the Lord shall make the glory of
His voice to be heard, in the joy of your heart.

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