On Sunday 6 November, 2016, St. Paul’s celebrated with great joy the 5th Anniversary of our Divine Mercy Prayer Group. We had (plenty of) food, music and dances by the DMPG, El Shaddai, and even our priests showed some of their talents.
It is a grace to have these prayer groups in our parish, we give thanks to God and pray that He may continue blessing us all. We also commend ourselves to the protection of our Lady the Virgin Mary.
By the grace of God, St. Paul’s Parish was able to participate in the 2016 World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland. Our Cyprus group was an interesting mix of St. Paul’s parishioners, some members of the Maronite community, two religious sisters, and two priests, Fr. Akl Abou Nader and Fr. Carlos Ferrero IVE, our parish priest leading the group. The fast paced pilgrimage covered many interesting sites in and around Krakow, Czestochowa and Wadowice, and it was a great opportunity to see amazing places such as the Convent of the Holy Cross, several magnificent churches, the Pinczow synagogue, Auschwitz etc. They also saw the relics and sanctuaries of St. Faustina Kowalska and St. John Paul II, even the cassock which the Polish Pope was wearing during the first assassination attempt in 1981, and to top it off … Mass with Pope Francis!
We give thanks to God for this opportunity and keep praying for the fruits of the World Youth Day, may all the pilgrims be blessed with many graces for themselves and for their parishes back home.
God bless our Catholic Youth.
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Sunday 20 10:00am – Latin
11:00am – Polish
12:00pm – English
NB: Palm Sunday Masses will be about 15 minutes longer due to distribution of palms and Passion reading. All are welcome to join us for our Passion Play 2016 at 3:30pm. Stay for songs and refreshments afterwards.
Monday 21 and Tuesday 22 Mass at 9am at Agia Kyriaki
Wednesday 23 11am Adoration, 12pm Mass at Agia Kyriaki
Holy Thursday 8pm Mass of the Last Supper (NO 9am Mass) at AK
6pm penitential service followed by Mass of the Last
Supper at St. Dimitri’sin Polis
Good Friday 3pm Passion of our Lord at Agia Kyriaki (NO 9am Mass)
3pm Passion of our Lord at St. Dimitri’s in Polis
Holy Saturday 8 pm Easter Vigil Mass (NO 6pm Mass) at AK
(NO 4pm at Latin Parish Hall)
6pm Easter Vigil Mass at St. Dimitri’s in Polis
Easter Sunday Masses at Agia Kyriaki
10:00am – Latin
11:00am – Polish
12:00pm – English
NB: Easter Sunday Masses may be about 15 longer than usual)
Easter Monday Mass 12noon.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
“The Mercy of God is revealed in the face of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” said Pope Francis in his presentation of the Year of Mercy. “For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counsellor, Mighty-God, Eternal-Father, Prince of Peace.” (Is 9:5) It is a child in a manger that comes to us to proclaim the Good News of the Love and Mercy of God! To proclaim our salvation!
I also make mine these words of our Patriarch Fouad Towal: “The Church and the community of believers also have to respond to the world’s current situation.” This response is the Jubilee of Mercy, inaugurated on December 8 by Pope Francis. “Mercy is the remedy for the ills of our time,” said our Patriarch. Mercy is for each one of us, to better know God our Father and to love him more. It is through mercy that we make visible to the world the tenderness and closeness of God.
Dear friends, the birth of Christ is a sign of the Mercy of the Father and a promise of joy to us all. His message shines upon our wounded world, to console the afflicted, the oppressed, and to bring about conversion to hearts, especially those full of anger and hatred.
Together with Fr. Jim and Fr. Fernando, I would like to wish you all a very blessed, peaceful and joyful Christmas.
Fr. Carlos Ferrero, IVE
Parish Priest, Paphos.