{"id":6001,"date":"2025-06-13T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:08:22","slug":"st-agnes-parish-bulletin-15th-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stagnesbelfast.com\/?p=6001","title":{"rendered":"ST AGNES PARISH BULLETIN 15TH JUNE 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARISH NEWS…<\/span><\/h2>\n

WEEKLY OFFERTORY PROMISE<\/span> The collection amounted to \u00a32061.00 Thank you for your generous financial support. You can make your envelope contribution via the donate button on the Parish website home page also at www.stagnesbelfast.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

GAELS AGAINST GENOCIDE IN GAZZA<\/strong> <\/span>are holding a collection at all weekend Masses to fund a Mobile Maternity Unit. Please give generously to this worthy cause. Thankyou<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

CEMETERY SUNDAY 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TULLYRUSK\u00a0 TODAY SUNDAY 15TH JUNE @ 3 PM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(MASS WILL BE CELEBRATED)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

HAPPY FATHER\u2019S DAY TO ALL DADS & GRANDADS.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Blessing on Father\u2019s Day God is the giver of life, human and divine. May God bless all fathers. Together with their mothers they are the first teachers of their children in the ways of faith. May they also be the best of teachers, bearing witness to the faith by what they say and do, in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen <\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/i><\/span>N.B <\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

TUE 24TH JUNE there will be a 10am Mass for the Novena to the Sacred Heart<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>WED 25TH JUNE\u00a0\u00a0 Mass 7pm\/ No 10am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>THURS 26TH JUNE\u00a0 Mass 7pm\/ No 10am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

P7s LEAVERS MASS<\/span><\/span> will take place on Tues 24th June at 1.30pm. Farewell to our P7s, we wish them every blessing for the summer, and in their new schools in<\/span><\/strong> September.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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MASS INTENTIONS<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Sat 14(6.30pm): James Gerard Taylor, Francis Mc Kevitt, Patrick Mc Cormick & Rose Burns.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sun 15 (9.30am): Marion Mc Keever, Margaret McCullough Peter Mc Callum, Harriet Barr, Phil Maguire, Frank Mc Dermott<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sun 15(12.30pm): Gerry Mc Guigan, Edward & Teresa Murphy & Edward jnr, Mary & Bernard Carroll & Brendan Flynn<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mon 16(10am): Requiem Mass for Stephen Reagan RIP <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tues 17 (10am) : Requiem Mass for Margaret Loughran RIP<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wed 18 (10am): Priest\u2019s intention<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Thurs 19(10am): Priest\u2019s intention<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Fri 20(10am): Priest\u2019s intention<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sat 21( 1pm): Priest\u2019s intention<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the event of a funeral, the assigned intention will be offered privately by the priest at his first available mass.<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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REMEMBER IN PRAYER<\/span><\/h2>\n

Recently Deceased:<\/span>\u00a0 Bridie Millar, Rose Smyth, Stephen Regan ,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bridie Mc Guinness, Margaret Loughran, Paul Lawrenson\u00a0 RIP<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Month\u2019s Mind:<\/span> James Gerard Taylor, Patrick Mc Cormick<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Anniversaries:<\/span> Mary Zemrowsky, Alicia Hood, John Ciara & Johnny Malone, Mary Grehan, May & John Hughes, Mary Mc Geown, Olive Mc Keever, Eddie Haughey, Gerard O\u2019 Neill, Rose Burns.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord!<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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WHAT’S ON…<\/span><\/h2>\n

PILGRIMAGE TO LOUGH DERG t<\/span>he Jubilee Year of Hope is a time for pilgrimage and renewal. Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ and Jim Deeds will lead the Three-Day Pilgrimage to Lough Derg. Date: 4th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013 6th<\/sup>\u00a0July 2025. The bus will depart from St Patrick\u2019s Church Donegall Street. Cost \u00a3100. Places are limited early booking advised. To book contact Claire on 02890690920 or email<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PILGRIMAGE TO FATIMA<\/span>\u00a0 Now Flying Direct From Belfast International\u00a0 7 Nights F\/B Avenida Hotel 30th July\/6th August. Spiritual Director Fr Martin Graham Adm St Peter’s Cathedral Belfast. J.Walsh Tours. \u00a3885pps. Convenient flight times. For further information contact Joe Catney 0777642563.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Consecration of Ireland to the Sacred Heart<\/span> Corpus Christi Sunday, 22nd June Archbishop Eamon Martin will consecrate Ireland to the Sacred Heart. Bus to Knock from Belfast also picking up in Sprucefield and Banbridge \u00a330 Per person. Children free. To book contact Orla 07545452362 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ST OLIVER PLUNKETT PARISH<\/span> The Sacred Heart Crusade commenced with the papal blessing of four pilgrim Sacred Heart Statues on the 8th January 2025 in Rome. The Statue will arrive in St Oliver Plunkett Parish this Sunday afternoon 15th June. On Sunday evening at 7pm there will be adoration of the Sacred Heart in the Church. On Monday 16th June, we will dedicate our Mass to the Sacred Heart with children from the primary school and music at 10am. Everyone is welcome.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL PARISH<\/span>Join us for a time of Adoration, prayer and devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the visit of the Blessed Pilgrim Statue of the Sacred Heart to our Parish Tuesday 17th June. For more information please ring Tel: \u00a0028 95 904 304 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

All-Ireland Rally for Life <\/span>takes place in Dublin on Saturday 5th\u00a0July. Make a stand to protect Ireland’s unborn babies. Coaches will be travelling from towns across Northern Ireland. To book your seat contact\u00a002890278484\/ 07592280522 or email info@preciouslife.com<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

NI Childrens Hospice week<\/span> takes place from 16th-21st June. Andersonstown Support Group will be holding a road collection on\u00a0 Andersonstown Road and at Kennedy Way crossroads from 10-4<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Gaza: \u201cWords are not enough!\u201d \u2013 Irish Bishops call for solidarity at parish level<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Bishops stated the following concerning the humanitarian disaster in Gaza: \u201cIn Gaza people are starving and adequate aid is being denied; it seems clear that famine is being used as a weapon of war. Already over 600,000 Palestinians have been displaced. The evidence points to a staged strategy of ethnic cleansing aimed at removing the Palestinian people from their homes and their homeland. It is becoming increasingly clear to people on the ground that these are genocidal actions sanctioned by the Government of Israel.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is happening in Gaza \u2013 and the West Bank \u2013 is the death of tens of thousands of non-combatants, many of them women and children. This is unconscionable and disproportionate. It is immoral for world leaders to stand by inactively in the face of this outrageous tragedy for humanity. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWords are not enough! There is an urgent need for the international community to intervene, cut off arms supplies and bring the carnage to an end. This will call for courage on the part of leaders. Examples of courage are being given every day by heroic doctors, nurses and aid workers risking their lives in service of the wounded and those who have been displaced.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As noted already, bishops offered prayers for the people of Gaza and Ukraine as well as other troubled places in the world. In relation to the deteriorating situation in Gaza they noted that as of early June 2025, the humanitarian crisis there has intensified dramatically. To date, almost 55,000 people have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank, since the horrific events of 7 October 2023. Bishops welcomed the response to their call in their statement of 26 May for a \u2018Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace\u2019 in Gaza on Friday last, 6 June. The entire month of June, the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, should be a time of special prayer for peace. All parishes are asked to give expression to their solidarity with the suffering people of Gaza during June. Bishops continued, \u201cPeople in parishes across the country are horrified by what they are witnessing. They may feel helpless. But they can show their solidarity in different ways by lobbying their political representatives, by supporting humanitarian aid and, above all, by continuing to pray for an end to the conflict now and the resumption of peace, including the return of all hostages and prisoners.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bishops listened again to the recent words of Pope Leo XIV and resonated with them: \u201cIn the Gaza Strip, the cry of mothers, of fathers who clutch the lifeless bodies of children and who are continually forced to move in search of a little food and safer shelter from bombing, rises ever more intensely to the sky. I renew my appeal to the leaders: cease-fire, release all hostages, fully respect humanitarian law. Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.\u2019 (General Audience, 28 May 2025).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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