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MASS TIMES:
Vigil (Sat): Cappoquin 7.30 pm  Affane  8.15 pm       Sundays: Cappoquin 11.30 am   Modeligo 10 am
Weekdays: Cappoquin: 10 am (Except Funerals or Feastdays: 11:am)

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The "Go, Make Disciples" Pastoral Plan        A message from Bishop Cullinan

Month of the Holy Souls and Remembrance

All of us have loved ones gone before us and it’s nice to have a special time to remember and pray for them.  We have All Saints on the First. These include all sorts of people, parents, friends and even enemies. God’s goodness extends to all in the hereafter. Most people try to do their best most of the time, make the best fist of what life has thrown at them. It helps us give space  for the mistakes they have made and gives us some hope that our mistakes will get space too.
We proclaim the resurrection of the body and the promise of life everlasting. The feasts offer consolation to all of us good and not so good, the judgement of this is God’s business and our God has a vested interest in forgiveness! All Souls sees the same people from the perspective of incompleteness or
imperfection. We ask for deliverance from imperfection of those gone before us. Faithful souls who seek to purify themselves of sin and become holy with the help of God’s grace are not alone.
All of us are in the Communion of Saints. There’s a link between those who have already reached their heavenly home, those who are expiating their sins in Purgatory and those of us who are still pilgrims in this world. In this wonderful exchange, the holiness of one profits others well beyond the harm that the sin of one could cause.
Recourse to the communion of saints by means of indulgences, as the Church teaches, lets the contrite sinner be more quickly and efficaciously
purified of the punishments of sin. The treasury of the Church is the infinite and inexhaustible value of the merits of Christ before God. It includes the prayers and good works of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints. Making use of the gift of indulgences, we not only come to the spiritual aid of others, but are stimulated to perform fervent works of devotion,  penance and charity.

All works and prayers enriched with indulgences, as well as any other good works and sufferings endured with patience are linked with the Mass and the Sacraments, because they are the principal sources of sanctification and purification and have infinite value. In this way, our good works and sufferings
become offerings added to the Offering of Christ in the Eucharistic Sacrifice. The Mass and the Sacraments enable us to carry out the duties of our state in life in a way that enables us to live what we have learned from the Faith.

RECENT DEATHS

Please pray for those who have died.

Very Rev M J Ryan PE

John O Grady, Tinalira

Peggy Stapleton (née O Keeffe), Affane

Mary Power, Glountane

Very Rev Greg Power PE

May they all rest in peace.

NOVENA OF MASSES FOR THE HOLY SOULS

AFFANE:Sat 2nd & Sat 9th & Sat 16th —Remembrance Mass

CAPPOQUIN: Sun 10th & Sun 17th & Thu 21st 7.30.pm 

MODELIGO Sun 3rd & Sun 10th & Sun 17th—Remembrance.

Remembrance Mass for all who have died in the past year.
Cappoquin Thursday 21st November 7.30pm
Candles will be supplied  Tea in the hall after Mass
All are welcome.