Parish News & Events
World Mission Sunday 20th October 2024
“Go and Invite Everyone to the Banquet” World Mission Sunday is the Holy Father's annual appeal to support overseas mission and missionaries. It takes place in every single parish worldwide where the Church is present. In Ireland, Missio Ireland is tasked with...
ST BERNADETTE – RELIC PILGRIMAGE
In October, the relics of St Bernadette will visit two more churches in Dublin: Mary Immaculate, Inchicore, October 23-24; and Adam & Eve’s, Merchants Quay, October 25-26. For more information, visit www.stbernadette.ie
St John’s Men’s Social Group
The Men's Social and Music Group meets every Wednesday from 10-30am to 12-30pm in our Parish Centre. After our Summer break, we are starting again from 4 September 2024. The Men's Group is a venue for men to meet, relax, have fun and discuss the issues of the day over...
BUILDING HOPE WITH OPEN HEARTS
Archbishop Farrell’s new Pastoral Letter Building Hope with Open Hearts. This Pastoral Letter can be found at https://dublindiocese.ie/building-hope-with-open-hearts/. It launches across the Archdiocese a significant new phase of the Building Hope pastoral renewal...
Statement of Archbishop Farrell on Appointment of Monsignor John Kennedy as Archbishop
The Holy See has announced the appointment by Pope Francis of Monsignor John Kennedy, a Dublin diocesan priest, as titular Bishop of Ossero. Monsignor Kennedy is Secretary of the Disciplinary Section of the Dicastery for the Congregation of the Faith. As Secretary he...
Reflection on Today’s
Gospel Reading
Wednesday, Twenty Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
In the first reading, Saint Paul lists what the Holy Spirit brings, or in a more literal translation, ‘the fruit of the Spirit’. We tend to speak about the ‘fruits’ of the Spirit, but the singular ‘fruit’ suggests that all the qualities Paul lists are not to be separated out but are interconnected. It is as if this one fruit of the Spirit is so rich that it needs to be spoken of in a variety of ways, as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Paul is portraying the richly human life that the Holy Spirit creates in us when we give the Spirit space in our lives. At the beginning of the list of these qualities is ‘love’, perhaps suggesting that all the other qualities are expressions of love. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God’s love and a life shaped by the Holy Spirit will be a life that reflects God’s love to others. Our calling from baptism is to open ourselves in faith to God’s gift of the Holy Spirit and to allow the Spirit to bear the fruit of love in our lives. This comes before all else. In the gospel reading, the Pharisees and the experts in the Jewish Law seem to have lost sight of what really matters to God. Jesus says to them that what comes before all else in God’s eyes is ‘justice and the love of God’, a loving relationship with God which overflows into a just and loving relationship with all of God’s people. We need to be reminded every so often what is at the heart of our faith, what matters most to God. Both of today’s readings help us to see what is most important in God’s eyes.
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