25th July 2021 - World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
This weekend we celebrate the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, when we give thanks in a particular for the great blessings, helps and joy that the elderly bring to our world and our lives. In their serene presence they bring a calm to a noisy world, a comfort to most sorrows and the courage we all need to face the struggles of life. Their true gift is the wisdom of experience and the sure certainty that with faith and trust, God’s plan will always keep us safe and happy in life. May their example ever guide us. Today we pray in thanks for all they have been and ask God to bless them all in return for the blessing they have been to us all.PRAYER FOR THE FIRST WORLD DAY FOR GRANDPARENTS AND THE ELDERLY
I thank You, Lord, for the comfort of Your presence:
even in times of loneliness, You are my hope and my confidence,
You have been my rock and my fortress since my youth!
I thank You for having given me a family and for having blessed me with a long life.
I thank You for moments of joy and difficulty,
for the dreams that have already come true in my life
and for those that are still ahead of me.
I thank You for this time of renewed fruitfulness to which You call me.
Increase, O Lord, my faith, make me a channel of your peace,
teach me to embrace those who suffer more than me,
to never stop dreaming and to tell of your wonders to new generations.
Protect and guide Pope Francis and the Church,
that the light of the Gospel might reach the ends of the earth.
Send Your Spirit, O Lord, to renew the world,
that the storm of the pandemic might be calmed,
the poor consoled and wars ended.
Sustain me in weakness and help me
to live life to the full in each moment that You give me,
in the certainty that you are with me every day,
even until the end of the age. Amen.
Mass Times
Holy Family Coalisland
Coalisland
PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SEAT AND REMEMBER THAT FACE MASKS MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES.
MASSES WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE VIA WEBCAM AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES AND WILL FULFIL THE SUNDAY OBLIGATION
Saturday: 6.00 p.m. (Vigil for Sunday)
Sunday:- 9.30 a.m.
Holydays: 7.30 p.m. (Vigil); 10.00am
Monday – Novena Mass: 7.30pm
Tuesday – Friday: 10 am.
Rosary – Wednesday: 6.00pm
St Mary & St Joseph’s Brackaville
Brackaville
St Mary’s Church Stewartstown
Stewartstown
PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SEAT AND REMEMBER THAT FACE MASKS MUST BE WORN AT ALL TIMES.
MASSES WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE VIA WEBCAM AND WILL FULFIL THE SUNDAY AND HOLYDAY OBLIGATIONS.
Sunday: 11.00a.m.
