As we begin our celebration, let us remember God’s tenderness and
compassion.
In your mercy you call us to belong to you. Lord have mercy
From your goodness, we are made into one family. Christ have mercy
By your love you defeat everything that would rob us of our dignity.
Lord have mercy
May our great and gracious Lord, have mercy on us, forgive us our
sin and bring us to life everlasting. Amen
Isaiah 62:1-5
About Zion I will not be silent, about Jerusalem I will not grow
weary, until her integrity shines out like the dawn and her
salvation flames like a torch. The nations then will see your
integrity, all the kings your glory, and you will be called by a new
name, one which the mouth of the Lord will confer. You are to be a
crown of splendour in the hand of the Lord, a princely diadem in the
hand of your God; no longer are you to be named ‘Forsaken’, nor your
land ‘Abandoned’, but you shall be called ‘My Delight’ and your
land ‘The Wedded’; for the Lord takes delight in you and your land
will have its wedding. Like a young man marrying a virgin, so will
the one who built you wed you, and as the bridegroom rejoices in his
bride,
so will your God rejoice in you.
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are
all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord;
working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is
the same God who is working in all of them. The particular way in
which the Spirit is given to each person is for a good purpose. One
may have the gift of preaching with wisdom given him by the Spirit;
another may have the gift of preaching instruction given him by the
same Spirit; and another the gift of faith given by the same Spirit;
another again the gift of healing, through this one Spirit; one, the
power of miracles; another, prophecy; another the gift of
recognising spirits; another the gift of tongues and another the
ability to interpret them. All these are the work of one and the
same Spirit, who distributes different gifts to different people
just as he chooses.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
Through the Good News God called us
to share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Alleluia
John 2: 1-11
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was
there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited. When they
ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the wedding was all
finished, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine‘.
Jesus said ‘Woman, why turn to me? My hour has not come yet.’ His
mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ There were
six stone water jars standing there, meant for the ablutions that
are customary among the Jews: each could hold twenty or thirty
gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water’, and
they filled them to the brim. ‘Draw some out now’ he told them ‘and
take it to the steward.’ They did this; the steward tasted the
water, and it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came
from – only the servants who had drawn the water knew – the steward
called the bridegroom and said; ‘People generally serve the best
wine first, and keep the cheaper sort till the guests have had
plenty to drink; but you have kept the best wine till now’. This was
the first of the signs given by Jesus: it was given at Cana in
Galilee. He let his glory be seen, and his disciples believed in
him.
Prayer of the Faithful
God, Father, Son and Spirit, you are the God of love. Our lives flow
from that love. We praise you and thank you. Lord hear us.
Love must be real. It cannot be empty words. Lord as you have loved
us as we are, may we learn to accept one another as we are.
Lord hear us.
Pope Francis has called us to be a church of the poor. May those who
have the least always be our first priority. Lord hear us.
Lord, let faith hope and love reign and by the power of your love
may those who have died come to the fullness of life in your
kingdom. Lord hear us.
May our church be formed by the Gospel rather than our manmade laws.
Lord hear us.
In silence we put aside our own needs and remember those who need
our prayer and support………Lord hear us
Reflection
Huge differences may separate us, yet they are exactly what draw us
to each other. It is as though forged together we form one presence,
for each of us has half of a language that the other seeks. When we
approach each other and become one, a new fluency comes alive. A
lost world retrieves itself when our words build a new circle. While
the call to each other is exciting and intoxicating in its bond of
attraction, it is exceptionally complex and tender. We can awaken in
each other possibilities beyond our wildest dreams. Despite the
thousands of years of human interaction, it all begins anew, as if
for the first time, when two people fall in love. The force of their
encounter makes a real clearance; through the power of love they
discover the beauty in each other. Stretching across the distance
towards each other, they begin to awaken all the primal echoes where
nothing can be presumed but almost everything can be expected.
Remembered this weekend
Claudine Cahill
Seamus Butler
Margaret & Thomas Lawlor
Teresa Furlong (4th A)
Denis Furlong
Dick Neville (5th A)
Mark Coughlan (8th A)
Jane Doyle
Phyllie Armstrong (1st A)
Fran & Rita Harmon
James & Mary Field
Rosaleen Coughlan
Fr. Alan Mooney
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