St Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian – Indian nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the Republic of Macedonia). After living in Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation which had over 4,500 sisters and are active in 133 countries. The congregation manages homes for people dying of HIV/Aids, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, dispensaries and mobile clinics, childrens and family counselling programmes, orphanages and schools. Members of the congregation take vows of chastity, poverty and obedience also profess a fourth vow, to give “wholeheartedly free service to the poorest of the poor”.
During her life, St Teresa of Calcutta received a number of honours. She was canonised (recognised by the Church as a saint) on 4 September 2016 and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day.
She’s revered for her work with the poor in India and Pope Francis said “She defended the unborn, the sick and abandoned and had shamed world leaders for the crimes of poverty they themselves created”. Two apparent cures of sick people after her death in 1997 have been attributed to her intercession. On the day of her Canonisation, Pope Francis said: “St Teresa of Calcutta had spent her whole life bowing down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God given dignity”.
Thursday 8 June
7.20pm Arrival and Procession with the Relic
7.30pm Evening Mass
10.00pm Night Prayer
(Cathedral closes at 10.30pm)
Friday 9 June
8.00am Morning Mass
10.00am Morning Mass
12.00noon Midday Prayer
3.00pm Rosary
6.00pm Evening Prayer
7.30pm Evening Mass
10.00pm Night Prayer
(Cathedral closes at 10.30pm)
Saturday 10 June
10.00am Morning Mass
12.00noon Midday Prayer
1.00pm Relic departs from St Patrick’s Cathedral
Confessions will be heard on the mornings of Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June from 9.30am – 9.55am and from 10.30am – 12noon and on the Friday afternoon from 4pm – 6pm.
The Iona Institute NI invite you to take part in ‘How to speak up’ media training workshops
Gain confidence in speaking out on important issues like The meaning of marriage & The right to life. Adult evening session Thursday 29th June 6 -8.30 pm. Youth 15yrs+ one day event Friday 30th June 10.00am -3.00pm
Both events held inSt Brides parish hall 38 Derryvolgie avenue Belfast BT9 6FP. To book a place & find out more email [email protected] or call 07531149891
Christopher West is Coming To
St. Peter’s Parish Drogheda
Join us in the Barbican Centre, Drogheda on 9th of July from 3-5pm were world-renowned author, speaker and theologian Christopher West will unfold St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body”.
Theology of the Body answers the questions of every human life: Who am I? Why am I here? How can I be happy?.
Everyone; whether you are single, in a relationship, married or in Religious life, young or old, all are welcome to attend this one off event in St. Peter’s Parish, Drogheda.
There will be no entrance fee for this event, donation only.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady to the three shepherd children at Fatima in 1917 Archbishop Eamon Martin is leading an Archdiocesan Centenary Pilgrimage to Fatima from 10th – 17thAugust 2017 staying in the Tres Pastorinhos Hotel (situated 5 minutes from the Sanctuary Square). The cost is €848 per person sharing inclusive of taxes, insurance and all meals. Coaches to Dublin Airport from specific locations within the archdiocese will be arranged. All bookings must be made through Pilgrimages Abroad, 69 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 Telephone (ROI) 01 635 9300 (NI) 003531 635 9300. Demand for this pilgrimage is expected to be very high and since there are a limited number of places available immediate booking is essential. 200€ deposit guarantees your place. Booking commences 22nd February 2016. Booking forms are available in the sacristy after Mass.
For more information contact Fr Seamus White tel 028 8772 2631 or Joe McLaughlin tel 028 9070 1606 (mobile) 077 1180 8207
Saturday, 16 September at 3.00pm in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, five men will be ordained to the permanent diaconate for the Archdiocese of Armagh. They are Martin Brennan (Armagh), Martin Cunningham (Ardee), Tony Hughes (Keady), Paul Mallon (Dungannon), Eamon Quinn (Donaghmore). We wish them all the best on their ordination and future ministry and ask you to keep them and their families in your prayers.
Theme: Let Jesus Renew your Family
Wednesday 11th October
Celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
Friday 13th October
Healing Mass with the Anointing of the Sick and Elderly.
Sunday 15th October 3:00pm
The Blessing of Babies and Children
Weekdays 10.00am & 7.30pm
Sunday 10.00am, 11.30am & 6.00pm
Votive Candles can be purchased in the Church foyer for €2 each and will be burned during the novena in the small chapel.
St. Gerard’s booklets can also be purchased for €1 each. Confessors available every day except Sunday.
Free Parking available on Church grounds and in Car park.”
The evening is part of our diocesan preparations for the World Meeting of Families which is scheduled to take place in Dublin next year. The evening of celebration, entitled “The Joy of Love” will include an opportunity for you, and your parish choir and musicians, to learn the official hymn for the World Meeting of Families, A Joy for all the Earth. The music and score of the hymn can be downloaded at: (http://www.worldmeeting2018.ie/hymn/).
On the night, the Archbishop will be launching the official hymn for the WMOF2018 also will also be introducing the Icon of the Holy Family. This icon, in preparation for the World Meeting of Families, will travel on a one-year pilgrimage around Ireland, its journey beginning in Armagh with us on the night of 10 October.
The evening in the Cathedral will begin with an hour of rehearsal time at 7.00pm and will be followed by Evening Prayer and sung Vespers at 8.00pm.
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