Society of St. Oliver Plunkett

25 June 2013

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Hear, O Lord, my voice with which I have cried to Thee: be Thou my helper, forsake me not, nor do Thou despise me, O God, my Savior. The Lord is my light, and my salvation, whom shall I fear?.

Mass at 5pm, St Patrick's Church, College Rd, Kilkenny, Sunday 30^th June

Celebrant: Rev Thomas O’Toole CC

19 June 2013

11 June 2013

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? My enemies that trouble me have themselves been weakened and have fallen. If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear.

Mass at 5pm, St Patrick's Church, College Rd, Kilkenny, Sunday 16^th June

Celebrant: Rev Thomas O’Toole CC

05 June 2013

Third Sunday After Pentecost

Look Thou upon me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: for I am alone and poor. See my abjection and my labor; and forgive me all my sins, O my God. To Thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: in Thee, my God, I put my trust: let me not be ashamed.

Mass at 5pm, St Patrick's Church, College Rd, Kilkenny, Sunday 9^th June

Celebrant: Rev Thomas O’Toole CC

31 May 2013

Second Sunday after Pentecost

The Lord became my protector, and He brought me forth into a large place: He saved me, because He was well pleased with me I will love Thee, O Lord my strength: the Lord is my firmament, and my refuge, and my deliverer.

Mass at 5pm, St Patrick's Church, College Rd, Kilkenny, Sunday 2^nd June.

Celebrant: Rev Thomas O’Toole CC

30 May 2013

The Feast of Corpus Christi

He fed them with the fat of wheat, alleluia; and filled them with honey out of the rock, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Ps. 80. 2 Rejoice in God our helper; sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

Mass at 7:30pm, followed by Benediction,St Patrick's Church, College Rd, Kilkenny, Thursday 30^th May

Celebrant: Rev Thomas O’Toole CC

24 May 2013

Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas, atque indivisa unitas.

Blessed be the holy Trinity, and undivided Unity..

Mass at 5pm, St Patrick's Church, College Rd, Kilkenny, Sunday 26^th May.

Celebrant: Rev Thomas O’Toole CC

17 May 2013

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

25 June 2013

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

19 June 2013

11 June 2013

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

05 June 2013

Third Sunday After Pentecost

31 May 2013

Second Sunday after Pentecost

30 May 2013

The Feast of Corpus Christi

24 May 2013

Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

17 May 2013

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