Steak Out 2015

A heartfelt "Thank You" is extended to all who helped to make this year's Steak Out and Mini Fair a success it was a blast! , especially those few hard working individuals who spent many hours completing the preparation to ensure success.

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CHRISTMAS

Mass Schedule

The Nativity of the Lord

Holy Day of Obligation

Sacrament of Confession – 24^th December, 2015
(4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)

Vigil Mass – 24^th December, 2015
(5:30 p.m.)

Carol Service – 24^th December, 2015
(8:00 p.m.)

Mass during the night – 24^th December, 2015
(8:30 p.m.)

Mass during the day – 25^th December, 2015
(9:00 a.m.)

St. Stephen, first martyr – 26^th December, 2015
(8:00 a.m.)

The Holy Family (Sunday within the Octave)

Vigil Mass– 26^th December, 2015
(6:30 p.m.)

Sunday Masses– 27^th December, 2015
(8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.)

The Holy Innocents – 28^th December, 2015
(8:00 a.m.)

5^th Day within the Octave
of the Nativity of the Lord – 29^th December, 2015
(7:00 a.m.)

6^th Day within the Octave 
of the Nativity of the Lord – 30^th December, 2015
(7:00 a.m.)

7^th Day within the Octave
of the Nativity of the Lord – 30^th December, 2015 
(7:00 a.m.)

Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God

Octave Day of Christmas

Holy Day of Obligation

Vigil Mass – 31st December, 2015 – 6:00 p.m.

Watch Service – 31st December, 2015 – 10:30 p.m.

Vigil Mass – 31st December, 2015 – 11:00 p.m.

Day Mass – 1st January, 2016 – 9:00 a.m.

Reflections

REFLECTIONS

"Life Is Triumphant"

We celebrate the triumph of our blessed Lord over death. Man has and shall vanquish and conquer many enemies; the only enemy he can never conquer is death. Yet even death, through the triumph of our blessed Lord, is to be finally conquered, not only his death, but ours. He is a conqueror of death because he can make each of us, if we will, also conquerors. It is thus that he has taken the horror out of death. He has made it something no longer to scare people, but to encourage them. It is no longer a ruin but a sacrifice that every soul can make. Each man dying is a priest, and can offer a sacrifice like his Master. Each, like his Master, is victim and priest beside. He can offer himself in memory of that offering Christ made; offer it undefeated even by death.

Again, for us death is not the end of the roadway. It is only a turn in the road. We hold it not as though it were the journey's end. The journey ends not in death, but in life. Indeed the journey has no ending ....

Thus did Christ our Lord vanquish death. He taught us how to vanquish it by not being afraid to die. And death being vanquished, what other evil can we ever really fear? Death, the long undefeated foe of man, God made Man has conquered for himself and all the world. It is because of that. .. because death has been met and answered, that every Christian soul should know that there is nothing that cannot be firmly and properly dealt with. No problem can utterly be insoluble. There is a remedy for all things. To all things there is an end.

Men talk, and rightly, I suppose, of the problems of our time, and wonder how they are to be solved and dealt with. In consequence, people looking out into the future are a little afraid. How is this problem to be solved, they ask? What is to be the end of that? Now it is part of the spirit of the followers of Christ never to be afraid of the future, or of whatever the future may bring. There are dark clouds and difficulties beyond us always. Yet there must always be victory for good, for the good is God. God is triumphant. Life is triumphant. Every lesser thing shall fail.

FATHER BEDE JARRETT, O.P.
Father Jarrett (┼1934) was a Dominican friar from England widely esteemed for his preaching, his lectures, and his many books on theology and spirituality.