Mass Intentions

Sat  4      19.30      Gerry Beirne MM                                     

  Thomas, Elizabeth &

                  Pauric McNamara, Gortinure

    Chris Reynolds Main St

Sun 5      10.00      Fran McGuinness & DFM, Hyde St         

                                      Sean Christine &  Charlie O’Beirne & DFM

                                        Bernard & Bridget Bohan & DFM                  

                               Charlie Duignan, Treanmore                

                        Tommy Keville                                

Eslin    09.00         Jim & Rosaleen Foley & Thomas Conlon

                        Nell & Francis Bohan & DFM                 

Sat 11 19.30   Breege Gallagher MM,                                 

Celine Keating (30th Anniv)

Paddy & Monica Keating

Sun 12 10.00 Jim O’Callaghan, Main St                      

 

Mass Times October 11th & 12th

Sat Oct 11th     Mohill           7.30pm

                  No Mass in Eslin or Gorvagh

Sun Oct 12th      Mohill       10.00am

                                          Fenagh              11.30am  

 

Weekday Masses—Mon to Fri 10am

Rosary after 10am Mass

Confession—Sat evening 7pm in Mohill.       

First Sat—Mass at 10am & Confessions after Mass.

 

Eucharistic Adoration

Thurs after 10am Mass until 6pm

Benediction first Thurs of the month at 6pm

Holidays

I will be on holidays from Mon Oct 6 to Wed Oct 22. Fr Sean (086 3679681) is available for funerals and sick calls

When I am away, morning Mass in Mohill on Mon, Tues and Thurs morning at 10am. No Mass Wed or Fri morning

No Mass in Eslin & Gorvagh

No Fri evening Mass in Fenagh during the month of Oct

 

Pope Leo

Dear brothers and sisters, in our continuing catechesis on Jesus our hope, we are meditating today on Jesus’ resurrection, the very source of our faith and hope. With great meekness, Jesus appears to the disciples to restore communion and manifest his love, which surpasses betrayal, wounds and even death. As a sign of this love, Jesus gives the Apostles two gifts: his peace and the Holy Spirit. “Peace be with you” he says as he shows them his wounds. This is done not to shame those who abandoned him, but to assure them of his forgiveness and love, and to teach them that his death on the cross has been transformed into a sign of hope.

Points to Ponder

By our own strength, to live the full demands of Christ’s teaching is impossible. We are too weak. Like the disciples we have to recognise our weakness and helplessness. This is essential to our sanctification. St Thérèse of Lisieux whose feast we celebrated last week knew this, but with St Paul she could say ‘When I am weak then I am strong’ – when I see my weakness more and more I discover I need God more and more. This is a wonderful discovery. Why?

Emptied of ourselves, God then fills us with Himself when we trust in Him, have faith in Him. ‘It is trust and only trust that will lead us to God’ St Thérèse famously said. She trusted so much in God that she asked for all the grace others did not or could not receive – ‘the waves of infinite tenderness’ trapped within Jesus’ Heart to overflow into her soul. That is quite a lot!

Was that too bold a request? St Thérèse was not too bold – it is we who are not bold enough.  While on earth, the saints were greedy for one thing – grace. The saints are sponges for grace, like dry weary lands without water, being emptied of themselves, they soak up every last drop of the dew that fell from heaven – that ‘dew’ which is the Holy Spirit, they were filled with God’s fullness. But we can only pray for this grace if we have faith ‘We must believe in order to pray’ says St Augustine – he continues ‘we must ask God that the faith enabling us to pray may not fail’

Fear. Hope. Mercy. 

A Recollection Weekend on the Four Last Things
31st October-2nd November
Location: Tí Chulainn Centre, Mullaghbawn Co. Armagh
An opportunity for adult Catholics who would like to go deeper in their faith and life more truly in the light of that for which they were created to come together in prayer and reflection.  Sacraments, Conferences, Silence, Community and more. Retreat leader: Fr Patrick Desmond OP.  Fully residential with full board – non residential rates available also – all details online.  Early bird closes Monday 29th September. For more info visit www.thecollect.ie or email info@thecollect.ie

 

Thirteen new seminarians have begun their 2025-2026 academic programme and priestly formation for Irish dioceses. Welcoming the new student intake, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, chair of the Bishops’ Council for Vocations, said, “It is really heartening that thirteen men have started as seminarians in various locations to study on propaedeutic courses.  This brings the number of men training for the priesthood for Irish dioceses to 77 in total.  We thank God for each of them.

 

Money Matters

Offertory Collection………€1.530