Archive for February, 2010

Pastor’s Desk: 2nd Sunday of Lent

Welcome everyone. Our Readings today tell of the faithfulness of God and his desire to be close to his people of faith. In the first reading we see Abram (who later has his name changed to Abraham, our father in faith) being offered a special relationship with God. This relationship or Covenant will be sealed [...]

February 27, 2010   Posted in: Pastor's Desk  No Comments

Pastor’s Desk: 1st Sunday of Lent

Welcome everyone. We gather for the first time since we began the season of Lent on Wednesday with the marking of blessed ashes on our foreheads. Those ashes are a powerful symbol as they say to each of us who wore them, and everyone who saw us that day, we are on a journey of [...]

February 20, 2010   Posted in: Pastor's Desk  No Comments

New Domain Name

The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that the address bar in your browser now shows http://holytrinityparish.ie/. We’ve moved the website to this new domain to make it easier to remember and to strengthen our online identity. We’re very grateful to the Dublin Diocese Communications Office for hosting the site up to now. All URLs [...]

February 18, 2010   Posted in: Announcements  No Comments

Pastor’s Desk: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Welcome everyone to our Masses on this, the last Sunday before Lent begins. Our Gospel today is one that is very familiar to us; it is Luke’s version of the Beatitudes. We are probably more familiar with Matthew’s version which lists eight Beatitudes whereas Luke only gives us four and four antitheses. While the two [...]

February 13, 2010   Posted in: Pastor's Desk  No Comments

Pastor’s Desk: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Welcome everyone and I want to thank Fr. Gary for looking after this space last week. Inadvertently last week’s piece was accredited to me in the print edition of the newsletter but as all of you, I am sure, know I have no clue as to the form of racing horses (I always find the [...]

February 6, 2010   Posted in: Pastor's Desk  No Comments