Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10.00am. Saturday 7.30pm. *********************************

Deceased of the Winston Family, Carrick, Ballinlough

Kathleen, Paddy Joe, Tomás & Tommy Cribbin, Knockbrack

Michael, Mary and Patrick Diskin, Killenaugher

Billy Rochford, Knock Road

Paddy & Vera O Connell, Drimbane

Martin & Mary Donnelly, Milltown

Michael Cameron, Knockroe

Declan Byrne, Gurteen

Deceased of the McManus family, Holywell

Bill & Rosaleen Eagney, Clare St.

John & Patrick Mangan, Roy Doohoma

Patrick & Elizabeth Devane & decd. Kilvine

Sunday Masses for the foreseeable

future will be at 7.30pm on Saturday

& 10.00am on Sunday. There will not

be a 12 midday Mass.

All Weekday Masses, 10.00am, and

the daily rosary at 9.00pm continue to be broadcast on parish radio

105.2FM and streamed on the parish webcam: https://www.mcnmedia.tv/

camera/st-patricks-church-ballyhaunis

WEEKLY ENVELOPES: Sincere thanks to all who have returned their weekly envelopes.

The only safe method is, if possible, to drop them in the letter box of the Parochial House.

Alternatively you may wish to set up a Direct Debit in the bank. The acc. details for the acc.

into which the weekly envelopes are lodged are as follows:

Ballyhaunis Parish Church, No. 1 account

BIC: ULSB IE 2D IBAN: IE69 ULSB 9852 7005 5200 31

Please remember to include your name and/or envelope number when setting up the

Direct Debit.

THE PRIESTS’ EASTER COLLECTION, I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all

who have returned their envelopes or set up a Direct Debit. Again if you are in town and are

happy to drop it in the letter box of the Parochial House, feel free to do so. Alternatively, if

you wish to set up a Direct Debit, the account details for the Priests’ Collection account are

as follows: Ballyhaunis Parish Church, Priests account

PARISH NEWSLETTER 26th April 2020

Parish Priest: Fr. Stephen Farragher, 094-9630006 / 087-9210305

Email: ballyhaunisparish@gmail.com Parish Office: 094-9630006

PARISH WEBSITE: http://www.ballyhaunisparish.ie

Newsletter on line: Parish website

Web-cam: http://www.ballyhaunisparish.ie or www.mcnmedia.tv

Local Safeguarding Representative (LSR): Jacinta Flynn, contact the parish office

MASSES:

Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, Friday 10.00am.

Saturday Evening Vigil:

7.30pm.

Sunday: 10.00am.

CONFESSIONS:

Before Saturday Vigil Mass

EUCHARISTIC

ADORATION

Wed. & Thurs. 3.00 - 7.00pm.

Friday: 10.30am. - 8.00pm.

BAPTISMS

Saturdays & Sundays 11.00am.

Minimum of two weeks’

notice required. Contact the

parish office, 094-9630006

ANNIVERSARY MASSES 27th April - 3rd MAY 2020

2nd/3rd MAY 7.30pm. 10.00am.

READERS Stella O’Neill Julia Kelly

Emergency numbers:

Knock: 094-9388100

Fr. Feeney, Ballinlough: 094-9640155

Fr. McGuinness, Bekan: 094-9380203

ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH, BALLYHAUNIS

Recently Deceased We remember in our prayers

Angela Collins (nee Sloyan), Lavally, Tuam,

formerly Forthill, sister of Peter Sloyan

Paddy Mangan, Ballindine, brother of

Bridie O’Boyle, Carrowreagh

BIC: ULSB IE 2D IBAN: IE59 ULSB 9852 7005 520 114

Again please remember to include your name and/or enve-

lope number when setting up the Direct Debit.

The account details are also to be found on the back of the

Priests’ collection envelope.

Many thanks for your kindness and support at this difficult time.

‘STAY WITH US LORD, FOR IT IS ALMOST

EVENING’ The six western dioceses have agreed to present a

short online reflection at 6.30pm. every Sunday evening until

Pentecost. Beginning this Sunday 26th April from the Diocese of

Achonry with Fr. Vincent Sherlock. Log on to kilmoveepar-

ish.org/webcam or facebook.com/kilmoveeparish

KNOCK SHRINE offers virtual pilgrimages in unique

times: Knock has always been a place of welcome, sanctuary and

sacredness. Its role as Ireland’s National Marian Shrine makes it a

symbol of unity, family and togetherness.

Since 1880, pilgrimage groups have made their way to Knock,

bringing with them their prayers and petitions. Special pilgrimage

Sundays have long been a central part of the annual calendar at

Knock Shrine and the season traditionally begins on the last Sunday

in April.

This year, as we find ourselves in unique and challenging times,

pilgrimage Masses will be broadcast online from Knock Basilica

every Sunday at 3.00pm. each weekend, there will be a special wel-

come for the pilgrimage groups that traditionally travel to our

National Marian Shrine for their own celebrations.

Pilgrims are welcome to join the afternoon ceremonies from their

homes. The schedule for the afternoon will include the praying of

the Rosary at 2.30pm, followed by Mass and Benediction at

3.00pm. The celebrant will be Fr. Richard Gibbons, PP, Rector at

Knock Shrine.

In advance of the day, pilgrims may place their petitions online on

the Knock Shrine website and these will be placed on the altar for

the Mass. Many pilgrims light candles for loved ones and their

intentions during their visit to Knock Shrine and this service is also

available online. A candle will be lit at the outdoor candelabra for

each request received.

Daily Masses continue to be broadcast on the Knock Shrine website

and Facebook page at 12 noon and 7.30pm, with Rosary at 7.00pm.

Sunday Mass is broadcast at 12 noon, Rosary at 2.30pm and Mass

at 3.00pm. For further details, please see www.knockshrine.ie

LOCAL LINK Covid-19 Collect and Deliver Service

Helping people to stay at home is the new role of Local Link Mayo

rural transport services. Local Link Mayo is offering a collect and

deliver service in your area, from pharmacies and local shops, de-

livering critical medical supplies to the elderly, the vulnerable and

sick. If you need of such support or know someone who does con-

tact Local Link Mayo on 094 900 5150/086 029 3728 between

9:00am and 5:00pm or email mayo@locallink.ie

St Vincent de Paul Society: Help available by contacting

086-2640939.

Recent Interview with Pope Francis for “The Tablet” Magazine

I was curious to know if the Pope saw the Covid 19 crisis and the economic devastation it is wreaking as a

chance for an ecological conversion, for reassessing priorities and lifestyles. My question centred on the

effects on the Church of the crisis, and the need to rethink our ways of operating. Does he see emerging

from this a Church that is more missionary, more creative, less attached to institutions? Are we seeing a

new kind of “home Church”?

POPE FRANCIS: Less attached to institutions? I’d say less attached to certain ways of thinking. Because the

Church is institution. The temptation is to dream of a de-institutionalised Church, a gnostic Church without

institutions, or one that is subject to fixed institutions, which would be a Pelagian Church. The one who makes

the Church is the Holy Spirit, who is neither gnostic nor Pelagian. It is the Holy Spirit who institutionalises the

Church, in an alternative, complementary way, because the Holy Spirit provokes disorder through the charisms, but then out of

that disorder creates harmony.

A Church that is free is not an anarchic Church, because freedom is God’s gift. An institutional Church means a Church institu-

tionalised by the Holy Spirit.

A tension between disorder and harmony: this is the Church that must come out of the crisis. We have to learn to live in a Church

that exists in the tension between harmony and disorder provoked by the Holy Spirit. If you ask me which book of theology can

best help you understand this, it would be the Acts of the Apostles. There you will see how the Holy Spirit de-institutionalises

what is no longer of use, and institutionalises the future of the Church. That is the Church that needs to come out of the crisis.

About a week ago an Italian bishop, some- what flustered, called me. He had been going round the hospitals wanting to give

absolution to those inside the wards from the hallway of the hospital. But he had spoken to canon lawyers who had told him he

couldn’t, that absolution could only be given in direct contact. “What do you think, Father?” he had asked me. I told him:

“Bishop, fulfil your priestly duty.” And the bishop said Grazie, hocapito (“Thank you, I understand”). I found out later that he

was giving absolution all around the place.

This is the freedom of the Spirit in the midst of a crisis, not a Church closed off in institutions. That doesn’t mean that canon law

is not important: it is, it helps, and please let’s make good use of it, it is for our good. But the final canon says that the whole of

canon law is for the salvation of souls, and that’s what opens the door for us to go out in times of difficulty to bring the consolation

of God.

You ask me about a “home Church”. We have to respond to our confinement with all our creativity. We can either get depressed

and alienated – through media that can take us out of our reality – or we can get creative. At home we need an apostolic creativity,

a creativity shorn of so many useless things, but with a yearning to express our faith in community, as the people of God. So: to

be in lockdown, but yearning, with that memory that yearns and begets hope – this is what will help us escape our confinement.