Sunday and Ash Wednesday

 

Sunday 15th February

Sixth Sunday of Year A.

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses 

in the Social Centre   

CONFESSIONS: 

During Lent there will be Confessions each Saturday morning between 9am—10am. This is to enable children and their families to come to Confession in the normal way and thus accustomize them to coming again. 

These times are also open to all parishioners, to enable people to come to Confession during Lent and make their Easter Duties: this is a traditional way to refer to the Church’s teaching that all should come to Confession at least once a year. 

Code of Canon Law 989: After having reached the age of discretion, each member of the faithful is obliged to confess faithfully his or her grave sins at least once a year.

Here are some further directions from the Code of Canon Law.

Can. 988: A member of the Christian faithful is obliged to confess in kind and number all grave sins committed after baptism. It is recommended to the Christian faithful that they also confess venial sins.

Can. 960 Individual confession and absolution constitute the only ordinary means by which a member of the faithful conscious of grave sin is reconciled with God and the Church. 

Can. 961 §1. Absolution cannot be imparted in a general manner to many penitents at once without previous individual confession unless:

1/ danger of death is imminent and there is insufficient time for the priest or priests to hear the confessions of the individual penitents;

2/ there is grave necessity, that is, when in view of the number of penitents, there are not enough confessors available to hear the confessions of individuals properly within a suitable period of time in such a way that the penitents are forced to be deprived for a long while of sacramental grace or holy communion through no fault of their own. Sufficient necessity is not considered to exist when confessors cannot be present due only to the large number of penitents such as can occur on some great feast or pilgrimage.

Can. 962 §1. For a member of the Christian faithful validly to receive sacramental absolution given to many at one time, it is required that the person intends to confess within a suitable period of time each grave sin which at the present time cannot be so confessed.

Can. 963 A person whose grave sins are remitted by general absolution is to approach individual confession as soon as possible, given the opportunity, before receiving another general absolution.

Can. 964 §1. The proper place to hear sacramental confessions is a church or oratory.

MASSES DURING THE WEEK

Monday  9.30am Mass

Tuesday 10am Requiem Mass for Stephen McKnight

                               

Ash Wednesday 

9.30am Mass with imposition of Ashes

     7pm Mass with imposition of Ashes

Thursday 9.30am Mass

Friday  7pm STATIONS  OF THE CROSS

             7.30pm Confessions

Saturday 9am - 10am CONFESSIONS

               

             

Sunday 21st February

First Sunday of Lent Year A.

8.30am Mass 

10.30am Mass

Refreshments after both Masses in the Social Centre