31st Week of Ordinary Time

Monday - All Saints' Day: Holiday of Obligation

Tuesday - All Souls Day - Day One of our novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Wednesday - St. Malachy, archbishop of Armagh, friend of St. Bernard of Clarvaux, introduced the Cistercian Order to Ireland, author of the "prophecies" concerning each pope elected from his own time to the present day

                  - Day Two of Novena

Thursday - St.Charles Borromeo, archbishop of Milan, cardinal, canon lawyer and civil lawyer, applied himself strenuously to the reform of the Church, died tending victims of the plague which swept through his city

                - Day Three of Novena

Friday - feria - Day Four of Novena

29th Week of Ordinary Time

Monday - St. Luke, Evangelist, a gentile Christian physician and companion of St. Paul on his second missionary journey

Tuesday - Feria

Wednesday - Ss. John de Brebeuf & Isaac Jogues and their six Jesuit companions, missionaries, slain by Huron and Iriquois native Americans 1647/1648

Thursday - Feria

Friday - Feria

27th Week of Ordinary Time

Monday - St. Francis of Assisi, deacon, 1181 - 1226, abandoned all his property and his social position for the love of Christ, founded the Friars Minor, and with St. Clare, the Poor Clares

Tuesday - Feria

Wednesday - St. Bruno,  priest, professor and monk, 1033 - 1101, at La Grande Chartreuse he founded the Carthusian Order, an order of hermits [whose lifestyle is well worth studying http://www.chartreux.org/ http://www.libraryireland.com/articles/carthusian/index.php ]

Thursday - Our Lady of the Rosary, this celebration urges us to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, following the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary who was in a special manner associated with the incarnation, passion and glorious resurrection of the Son of God

Friday - Feria

Fatal Sexual Discrimination

Indian Priest Urges Religious Leaders to ‘Save’ Girls : 27th Sep 10

A Catholic priest has urged Indian religious leaders to help protect girl children following news reports of a man who abandoned his newborn daughter in a gutter. “Religious leaders, be they Christian, Muslim, Hindu or others,” must provide their followers “with the necessary attitude and courage to save and celebrate the girl child,” said Jesuit Father Cedric Prakash.

His appeal followed news reports of police arresting a man in Gujarat state on earlier this month for abandoning his newborn girl. The reports said Narottam Devipujak, a vegetable vendor, had vowed to offer a male goat to his family deity if a son were born to him. However, he swore he would “sacrifice” the child if it were a girl. On September 2, a day after the child’s birth, he left her in a gutter.

“This is surely not a one-off incident to highlight the negative attitude that exists in society toward the girl child,” said Father Prakash.

The priest, who is based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s commercial capital, noted that the child sex ratio in the state is 883 females to 1,000 males as against the national ratio of 920 to 1,000.

Despite efforts to address this imbalance, Indian society continues to prefer boys to girls, he said. And this leads to numerous abortions of girls. In Hindu religious practice, a son often has the responsibility of performing the last rites for family members. While sons inherit family wealth, girls are considered a burden as they need to be married off with dowries.

Father Prakash said the Catholic Church in India has decided to celebrate September 8, the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, as “Girl-child Day”. Ocan News.

Source: http://www.familyandlife.org/Abortion-and-Embryo/1899/9/13.html

26th Week of Ordinary Time

Monday - St. Vincent de Paul, 1580 - 1660, priest founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) and the Daughters of Charity, patron of all charitable works

Tuesday - Feria

Wednesday - SS. Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, Archangels: Gabriel, patron of tele-communications; Raphael, patron of nurses, physicians and the blind; Michael, protector of Christians

Thursday - St. Jerome, 340 - 420, priest, scholar, translated the Bible from the orginal Hebrew and Greek into Latin, his translation replaced earlier defective translations, lived as a desert hermit for many years, patron of librarians.

Friday - St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, 1873 - 1897, Doctor of the Church, Carmelite nun: patron of missions, florists, aviators and France

25th Week of Ordinary Time

Monday - Ss. Andrew Kim Taegon (the first Korean priest), Paul Chong Hasang (catechist), and their companions - Korean martyrs martyred during the persecution of the Church 1839 - 1867.

Tuesday - St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist.

Wednesday - feria

Thursday - St. Eunan (Adomnan) - Patron of Dicoese of Raphoe. Born Donegal c.624 AD, became a monk in Iona and was chosen as ninth abbot in 679, died 704.

Also - St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Capuchin friar, stigmatist, confessor, friend of all who suffer. Died 23rd September, 1968.

Friday - Feria

Pope In Ireland

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The Nativity of Our Blessed Lady

Today the Church celebrates the Feast of Our Lady's birth to her parents Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. Today's Mass in the Oratory at 10.30am is the Mass of the Feast. If you feel like giving Our Lady a birthday present today, why not offer her a second Rosary in addition to your usual daily Rosary?

DAILY MASS

Mass will be celebrated in the oratory from Monday to Friday at 10.30am.