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1. Associates' Diary | 2. Year of Evangelisation | 3. Year for Priests | |
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2. Year of Evangelisation |
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Spreading the Word in Dublin Archdiocese
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History was made in the chapel of Trinity College on Monday, 18th January, the first day of Church Unity Week, when for the first time the Catholic and Church of Ireland archbishops of Dublin gave a joint blessing at the launch of their latest ecumenical initiative. |
A specially commissioned Gospel of St. Luke was launched by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Archbishop John Neill and 100,000 copies of the gospel will be distributed free through parishes in their respective archdioceses during the coming weeks. This will be followed up by a DVD, Luke the Book, intended for families. Both churches also plan a joint youth pilgrimage to Taizé, the ecumenical centre of prayer in France, for later this year. |
At the launch Archbishop Martin said: “This university houses the Book of Kells, an extraordinary cultural legacy and a symbol of the centrality of the scriptures in the early Irish church. Renewal begins by going back to those biblical roots, through showing the relevance of the Scriptures in our culture and in our world.” Archbishop Neill said it was fitting the launch was taking place at the start of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and he was “very excited we are doing this together”. |
Archbishop Martin continued: "The Gospel is a message of life. It is about Jesus Christ in whose life and ministry God reveals himself, who comes out to meet us, to engage with us, to renew us through his self-giving love. God reveals himself in Jesus and he reveals us to ourselves". |
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"The apostles, as the theme of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity reminds us, were to be witnesses to all these things. That is the task of each Christian and of each Christian community today. The Gospel must be proclaimed and it must be witnessed to. The best evangelizer is one who is most truly a witness. But witness must also be truly rooted in the Gospel." |
Speaking after the launch, Archbishop Martin said: “It’s actually a very significant event. This wasn’t always an ecumenical chapel and, in many ways, this college was a focus of religious division and I’m delighted, not only that we are here today but that we’re actually doing something together today, preaching the faith and renewing the church.” |
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Youth Alpha Training Day |
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Marianella Redemptorist Centre
70 Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6 |
| Time: 10.00 - 5.00pm |
This workshop continues Alpha's initiatives for the Year of Evangelisation and will cover the practicalities of running Youth Alpha in second-level schools (there are special resources for both younger and older teenagers). It will be conducted by a number of guest speakers with experience in doing the Alpha Course with young people: |
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Helen Lawson |
- full-time Youth Alpha coordinator in Scotland |
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Jim Donnan |
- Director of Scripture Union's (SU) Youth Ministry |
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Jonny Somerville |
- member of the Authentic Youth ministry team of SU. |
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Anne Loughman |
- Chaplain of Knocklyon Community School, Dublin. |
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Fr. John Nally PP |
- has run Youth Alpha and is running Alpha in his parish. |
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Paddy Monaghan |
- National Coordinator of Alpha in Ireland. |
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Cost: €20. Covers Lunch, Tea/Coffee and a participant's pack. Registration on the 27th Feb. from 9.30am.
Please make cheques payable to Alpha Ireland.
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Send booking form to before 13th Feb. to:
Alpha Ireland, 72 Hillcourt Rd, Glenageary, Co. Dublin.
Further detail: Tel 2369821 Web: www.alphacourse.ie Email: alphairel@eircom.net
Click here for booking form
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Pope Benedict XVI has declared a “Year for Priests” which began on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 19, 2009. The year will conclude in Rome with an international gathering of priests with the Holy Father on this feast in 2010. |
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With the announcement
of this Year for Priests,
the Pope has declared
St. John Vianney
the Universal Patron of Priests
on the occasion of the
150th anniversary of the death
of the Curé d’Ars. |
| Archdiocesan Initiatives |
The Vocations office in th Dublin archdiocese has launched a number of initiatives to encourage prayer for priests and for vocations to priesthood. The Year began with a nine-day Novena in honour of St John Vianney.
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The Vocations Office is also looking for prayer volunteers to pray for priests. Anyone who would like to undertake to pray for a priest ministering in the diocese should contact the vocations office via email at vocations@dublindiocese.ie. The volunteer will then be sent the first name of a priest and prayer to say each day for him. |
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There is also the Vocations Chalice Prayer Initiative. The chalice of Fr. Donal O'Sullivan, who was wounded and died during the First World War giving spiritual assistance to fallen soldiers, will visit parishes throughout the diocese and will be used to offer Masses for vocations to the priesthood.
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| Further information on the Year for Priests may be found on the website: http://www.vocations.ie/yearpriests |
| The Priesthood is the love of the
Heart of Jesus" |
[St. John Vianney] |
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| Prayer for Priests |
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Father,
You have chosen priests
from among us
and given them
to your Church
to continue the work of your Son. |
You have consecrated them,
anointed them,
filled them with the Holy Spirit,
and appointed them to teach, preach, minister, console, forgive,
and feed us with the Body and
Blood of Jesus. |
We your people, thank You and pray that, this day, you will give them:
Your presence in their hearts,
Your holiness in their souls,
Your joy in their spirits.
And let them see You face to face
in the breaking of the bread. |
We make our prayer through Mary the mother of all priests,
for Your priests and for ours. |
Amen |
[Based on a Prayer by John Cardinal O'Connor - March 1995] |
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