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Annual Mass at Kilcooley Cemetery

The annual Mass will take place at Kilcooley Cemetery this Sunday, July 9th at 11.30 am. All welcome.

Cam Defibrillator Group Church gate collection

Cam Defibrillator Group are having their annual Church gate collection for the maintenance and upkeep of the 15 defibrillators locally, on Sunday, July 9th, from 9.30 am, to coincide with 10 am Mass in Curraghboy. All support much appreciated.

Castlerea Show launch and Lip Sync Battle fundraiser

Castlerea Agricultural Show are holding their launch night and fundraising Lip Sync Battle on Friday, the 14th of July in McGourty’s Bar, Castlerea, starting at 9.30 pm. All funds raised will go directly towards the running of the annual agricultural show on the August Bank Holiday Monday. All support is greatly appreciated.

Healing Mass in Curraghboy

A Special Mass for Healing will take place at Our Lady Star of the Sea Prayer Centre, Curraghboy, Athlone on Friday, July 7th, commencing at 8 pm.

The celebrant will be Fr Tony Emeka, originally from Cameroon and currently based in the Philippines. Fr Tony, who has a powerful Healing Ministry, returns to Ireland for one month’s holiday in July after five years in the Philippines.

Confessions will be available from 7 pm, and the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet will be recited at 7.30 pm.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Individual Blessings for Healing will take place after Mass. All are most welcome to attend. The Eircode is N37W704.

Legion of Mary outing to Dublin

There will be a Legion of Mary summer outing to Dublin city taking place on Tuesday, July 18th 2023. All are welcome to attend.

There will be a bus leaving Elphin Church carpark at 9 am, and from the Sacred Heart Church, Roscommon carpark at 9.30 am.

For more information, contact Tom Beirne on 086 3861954 or Bernadette Higgins on 086 8839424.

Lisnamult indoor market this Sunday

An indoor market will take place in Lisnamult Community Centre (F42NN72) from 11 am to 3 pm on Sunday, July 9th

All kinds of bric-a-brac will be for sale, as well as clothes, jewellery, hand-knitted baby cardigans, homemade jams, handmade jewellery, and handmade candles and soaps. All are very welcome to attend.

Gospel Reflection

Sunday 9 July

Jesus is portrayed in today’s Gospel as a new and greater Moses. Moses, the meekest man on earth (see Numbers 12:3), was God’s friend (see Exodus 34:12, 17). Only he knew God “face to face” (see Deuteronomy 34:10). And Moses gave Israel the yoke of the Law, through which God first revealed Himself and how we are to live (see Jeremiah 2:20; 5:5).

Jesus, too, is meek and humble. But He is more than God’s friend. He is the Son who alone knows the Father. He is more also than a law-giver, presenting Himself today as the yoke of a new Law and as the revealed Wisdom of God.

As Wisdom, Jesus was present before creation as the firstborn of God, the Father and Lord of heaven and earth (see Proverbs 8:22; Wisdom 9:9). And He gives knowledge of the holy things of the kingdom of God (see Wisdom 10:10).

In the gracious will of the Father, Jesus reveals these things only to the “childlike” – those who humble themselves before Him as little children (see Sirach 2:17). These alone can recognise and receive Jesus as the just saviour and meek king promised to daughter Zion, Israel, in today’s First Reading.

We, too, are called to childlike faith in the Father’s goodness as sons and daughters of the new kingdom, the Church.

We are to live by the Spirit we received in Baptism (see Galatians 5:16), putting to death our old ways of thinking and acting, as Paul exhorts in today’s Epistle. Our “yoke” is to be His new law of love (see John 13:34), by which we enter into the “rest” of His kingdom.

As we sing in today’s Psalm, we joyously await the day when we will praise His name forever in the kingdom that lasts for all ages. This is the Sabbath rest promised by Jesus – the rest first anticipated by Moses (see Exodus 20:8-11), but which still awaits the people of God (see Hebrews 4:9).

-Scott Hahn Ph.D., www.salvationhistory.com (courtesy of Sacred Heart Church, Roscommon)