1. Sick and Housebound: Mass is on 107FM. ALTAR
SOCIETY
Just tune your radio before Mass. Please let the March
housebound know about this service in your area. Angela
Loughlin
MarchROSARYApril Maire Mulligan Evelyn
Jimmy Keegan Kilcullen
Carmel Moran
Eucharistic Ministries Marion Barrett
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Mar 7:30pm Eucharistic Ministries Rose Casey&Tom McGowan Collectors
Holy Thursday P Gorman &
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Mar 9:30am Kitty Doyle& Kathleen Marie Mulligan E Moran Parish Newsletter
Noonan Aine Moran &Teresa Kelly J Keegan
11:30m
Good Friday Vincent Dunbar,
R Henry& Sunday 24ThMarch2013
B Murphy Mass Times: Saturday 7:30pm Sunday 9:30am & 11:30am
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30 Mar 7:30pm Johnny Mc Goldrick & P Gorman &
Catherine Lynch& Pauline Jordan E Moran Holidays 10:00am & 7:30pm
Brid Blake Mary Murphy &Ann Hickey Priest: Fr Jim Murray, Email: carraroe@holywellsligo.com
Maura Marren & Leo J Keegan
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31 Mar 9:30am R Henry& Phone: 071-9162136 Mobile: 087-8198466
Marren Frances Kelly&Rose Casey
B Murphy Websites: www.carraroechurchsligo.com www.holywellsligo.com
11:30am Easter Programme
Holy Thursday
“This is my body…this is my blood.”
Mass of the Lord‘ Supper 8:00pm
Mass Times & Intentions 24th -31st March
“Stay here and keep watch with me.”
Sat 7:30pm Annie & Michael Francis O‘ Dowd (Annis) Holy Hour 11:00pm – 12:00 midnight.
Sun 9:30am Margaret Neary (Anni) Good Friday
Sun 11:30am Paddy Nicholson (Anni) Proclaim His Mercy
Holy Week
Divine Mercy 12:00 noon.
Mon No Morning Mass
“Father into your hands I commend my spirit.”
Tue 10:00am
Lord‘s Passion 3:00pm
Wed 10:00am Harry Payne (Rec Dec) “Behold the Wood of the Cross.”
Wed 7:30pm Chrism Mass – Cathedral Sligo Stations of the Cross – Reflections and Prayers 7:00pm
PASSION/READERS/NARRATORS FOR EASTER WEEK Holy Saturday
24th Mar ‘13 Passion Saturday7.30pm
“Our help is in the name of the Lord.”
Reader CarraroeN.S.Passion Mary McGoldrick (narrator) Lisa Jordon
Divine Mercy Novena 3:00pm
24th Mar ‘13 Passion Sunday9,30am “We should praise the unseen God.”
ReaderEugene Moran Passion Joe Casey (narrator) Imelda Henry Easter Vigil 8:00pm - Brian & Kathleen Hynes, Jean & Patrick Jordon (Annis)
11.30am Reader Mary Keegan Passion Mary Hough (narrator) Maura McMoreland
28th Mar ‘13 Holy Thursday8.00pm ReaderCarraroeN.S. Easter Sunday
29th Mar ‘13 Good Friday 3.00pm ReaderCarraroeN.S.
“He has risen from the dead.”
Passion Jimmy Hughes (narrator) Jean Jordan
Morning Mass 9:30am – Ellen McGauran (Anni)
30th Mar ‘13 Holy Saturday 8.00pm 1stReading Niamh Casey 11:30am - Francis Kelly (Anni)
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2 Reading Eamonn Boylan5 Reading Paddy Galvin Epistle Paddy Loughlin ―Divine Mercy, Our hope of despairing souls.‖
Easter Sunday Divine Mercy Novena each day at 3:00pm..
31st Mar ‘13 Readers Tommy McManus Carol Kearney

2. Divine Mercy Novena A Holy Week Reflection
The Divine Mercy novena begins in our Parish on Good Friday at 12:00noon and continues
each day at 3:00pm. Please come along and join in this novena which leads up to Divine Mercy
I sat down next to my family in the pew. My children had selected the pew up front and closest
Sunday on 7th April.
to the choir, because they enjoy being near the music. I asked God to help me focus on the rest
of Mass and be present to what God had to say to me personally as Holy Week began.
Time of Reflection for Lent in CarraroeChurch
Well, Holy Week is never calm for very long. And this year, God decided to speak to me
Sincere thanks to all who attended our reflections over the Lenten period. A special thanks to
through my daughter, Anna. To explain how, we have to back up our story just a couple of
all who helped with the reflections especially Ray, Olivia, Leo, Stephanie, Fergus, Eileen and
days. On the Friday before Palm Sunday, my two children sang with me in the car as we drove
our sacristan Evelyn.
around town. I had been practicing a song called ―Christ is Risen‖ for Easter Sunday, and the
kids have learned the words right along with me. What a great moment when friends—or total
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strangers—hear my kids, ages five and two, singing this song and shout, ―Oh, Hell!‖ Of course,
Holy Week is recalled in a special way at our Holy Well. The life size Crucifixion
that line in the song is taken from Scripture and is followed by ―Where is your victory?‖ It is
Scene is a vivid image of the Crucifixion Scene on Good Friday. As we enter this
quite a profound experience listening to my children sing about Jesus ―trampling over death by
Holy Week, take the time to visit, pray and light candles
death‖ and proclaiming to the toys in the backseat that ―our God is not dead! He‘s alive! He‘s
alive!‖ However, this joyful and profound moment was nothing compared to the experience we
Sligo Parishes Cluster Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
had on Palm Sunday morning.
As part of the Year of Faith initiatives in the Cluster a pilgrimage to the Holy Land has been
proposed. Travelling on October 15th till the 23th at a cost of €1610 per person sharing (price
While I know that I have been blessed with children who remain fairly calm during Mass
includes flights, half board hotels - 5 nights in Jerusalem and 3 in Tiberius - taxes, tour guides
(mostly due to practice!), Anna was more than a blessing at this year‘s Palm Sunday Mass. As
and pilgrim itinerary).
the lengthy and dramatic reading of the Passion took place, and many adults began to fidget
Anyone interested should call Colette, the Cluster Catechist, at 0879534904 for more
and grow weary, Anna not only remained calm and quiet: she listened for the first time.
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About halfway through the reading, I noticed my wife Mary looking intently at Anna. I had
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been holding James and missed the initial question, but I saw Mary respond with a very loving
and concerned face. Setting James down and finally able to focus and listen, I noticed that
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Anna, too, had a look of concern on her face. Then she asked very slowly, ―Did… they… how
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did they put Jesus on the cross? Did they use rope?‖ Mary, with the same loving look of
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concern, simply shook her head. Anna, with genuine sadness on her face, and rubbing her
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thumb across the palm of her hand, continued: ―Did they use nails?‖
After Mary nodded her head yes, Anna slunk back into her seat and sort of gave herself a hug.
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As the reading continued, Mary and I both mumbled something about the story not ending
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there. Anna simply nodded her head, but was immersed in her own thoughts. We tried to
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explain briefly that Jesus loves us so much that he went through that ordeal for us and that, just
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like in the song, ―Christ is Risen,‖ the story ends happily, because the Father raised Jesus from
the dead and we will rise with him one day! But in that moment, I knew that words were sort of
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And sitting next to her, stricken to the heart, I began to cry silently. Holy Week had begun for
our family.
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The word that comes to mind is compunction. Compunction means a prick or cut to the heart, a
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God has brought me to a place of compunction this Holy Week. And while I have no desire to
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stay there, while my theological education says to me, ―The story doesn‘t end here,‖ and while I
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want my daughter to remain free of such feelings forever, the Church has given us this week so
March beginning at 7:30pm. All members are requested to attend. New members are especially
that we can sit with the thought of nails piercing His hands and feet. The Church celebrates the
welcome to help with the varied programme for Holy Week and Easter.
coming Paschal Triduum so that we remain with Jesus through his Passion and are cut to the
heart by the great love of God. And only then—after we have sat back in our seat, meditated on
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the Passion and Death of Jesus, rubbed our own hands a little bit and let holy tears flow because
The many arrangements of flowers which are part of our Church throughout the year are rich
we have recognized our own imperfection and understood some more of the depths of God‘s
and varied. If you would like to donate toward the cost of flowers, please drop your donation
love—only then can we enter the promised land and proclaim with the fullness of Easter joy
into the Sunday Collection or call into the Sacristy after Mass. Any support is always
that ―our God is not dead! He‘s alive! He‘s alive!‖
appreciated