6 May 2018
6th Sunday of Easter
1st: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48
Ps: 97:1-4,
2nd: 1 John 4:7-10
The Gospel of John 15:9-17
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete. This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you. A man can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you. I shall not call you servants any more, because a servant does not know his master’s business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father. You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; and then the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name. What I command you is to love one another.’
As I have loved you
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where love is not, what can profit? But this love is distinguished from men’s love for each other as men, by adding, “As I have loved you.” To what end did Christ love us, but that we should reign with Him? Let us therefore so love one another, as that our love be different from that of other men who do not love one another to the end that God may be loved, because they do not really love at all. They who love one another for the sake of having God within them, they truly love one another.
St. Augustine (Catena Aurea)
This week’s feasts
Tues 8 Our Lady of Lujan, Patroness of the IVE
Thur 10 Feast of the Ascension
Sat 12 Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs, also Saint Pancras, Martyr
Psalter week II
7th Sunday of Easter year b
1st: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26
Ps: 102:1-2,11-12,19-20
2nd: 1 John 4:11-16
Gospel: John 17:11-19
Our Lord’s Ascension
The Ascension of Christ can be seen as a twofold cause of our salvation:
1. What it does in us: In ascending to the Father, He uplifts our souls increasing faith, hope, charity, and reverence for Him since we no longer see him as an earthly man, but as the God of heaven.
2. What it does for us: Our Lord prepared a way for us, according to the words of Micheas (2:13), “With a leader to break the path they shall burst open the gate and go out through it; Their king shall go through before them, and the Lord at their head.” He is our Head and the members must follow where the Head has gone.
Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologiae III, Q.57
‘Ascension’ by John Singleton (1775). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, USA.
A Teenage Saint and Martyr
St Pancras is thought to have been of Roman citizenship. His mother died during childbirth and his father died when he was eight, so he went to live with an uncle. Shortly after, they both converted to Christianity and during the persecution by Diocletian, (ca. 303) Pancras was captured and brought before the authorities who ordered him to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods and promising him money and power, but as Pancras remained strong in the faith, he was put to death by beheading. Pancras was only fourteen years old. St. Augustine of Canterbury brought the devotion to England, where a Church was dedicated to the young martyr.
Saint Pancras, pray for us
Our Lady of Lujan Mass Tues 8 May at 12pm. Join us as we honour the Patroness of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, the Religious Family of Frs. Carlos and Fernando. (No 9am Mass)
Feast of the Ascension Mass Thurs 10 May at 12pm. (No 9 am Mass)
Parish Easter BBQ LAST CALL Please SIGN UP by Monday 7 May, for catering purposes. BBQ on Sun 13 May, 1:30pm at LPH. Suggested donation €10.
Organ recital by Paul Timmins in Agia Kyriaki Monday 7 May, 12pm. Collection to help our Hospice.
In the steps of St. Paul Presentation by Peter Walker. Tues 8 May, 6:30pm. Agia Kyriaki. Donations will go to help the author’s charity.
One Day One Song Learn a song to be sung at the Harbour on Sun 27 May, at 5pm. €5.00 sign up to help our Hospice. Call Ruth 99389073.
Aphrodite Ladies have raised €17,134 from the Sept 2017 to 30 April 2018 to help the Hospice. Thank You Ladies.
Donate a used handbag and fill it with personal care items. Bring donations to the Coffee Shop or Contact Wendy 9904 0294.
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