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27 April 2025

The Parish of Ballyclare & Ballygowan

The Faithful Departed Anniversaries:  Kathleen O'Kane, Ellen Gillen, Hugh Smyth, Mary Brady, Agnes Agnew, Bobby & Barney English, Patrick McFaul, Andrew Haveron, Thomas McKeever, Eileen Garvin, Jim McLarnon, Sammy Cowan, Rose Montgomery, Anne Logue, Alice Doris, Anna Carmichael, Leah Sloan McCrea  Eternal Rest Grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. DONATE
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This Week’s Hymns
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Pilgrims of Hope for Eternal Life: death is not the end of everything, but the beginning of something. It is a new beginning…  because eternal life,  which those who love already begin to experience on earth within the daily tasks of life — is beginning something that will never end. And it is precisely for this reason that it is a “new” beginning, because we will live something we have never fully lived before: eternity. (Pope Francis, from his introduction to the book “Awaiting a New Beginning, Reflections on old age” by Cardinal Scola. “He (Jesus) will not come only  at the end for everyone. He will come each time for each one of us. He will come to seek us out to bring us to him. In this sense, death is a kind of step toward the encounter with Jesus who is waiting for me, to bring me to him.” Pope Francis – August 2022
Masses this week:  Monday, 7pm. Tuesday – Thursday 9.00am
Pope Francis was laid to rest in The Basilica Of St Mary Major, near to this beautiful icon of Our Lady. “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners… This invocation, often repeated throughout the day, has allowed God to draw near, through Mary, to our lives and our history. Mother of God, pray for us sinners… It is recited in the most diverse languages, on the beads of a rosary and at times of need, in the presence of a holy image or walking along the way. To this invocation the Mother of God always responds; she hears our petitions; holding her Son in her arms, she blesses us and brings us the tender love of God made flesh. In a word, Mary gives us hope.”               (Pope Francis, Feast of Mary, the Mother of God, 2023.)
Today is Divine Mercy Sunday: There will be Divine Mercy Devotions in  St Peter’s Cathedral, 2pm. St Paul’s, Falls Rd, 2pm. Sacred Heart, Oldpark Rd, 2.15pm. Lisburn: St Patrick’s, 3pm.  Ballymena: All Saints, 2pm.
Please Return your Trócaire Box to the Church as soon as possible!