Our Lady of
Mount Carmel Church
Peace on Earth.
Whitefriar Street.
The Carmelite Community
would like to wish all our
people a very
Happy Christmas & a Happy New Year.
Christmas 2016
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Mon 19th, Tues 20th,
Wed 21st,
Thurs 22nd & Fri 23rd
All church services as usual.
Confessions:
Christmas Day Masses:
The seasons of Advent and Christmas are also an opportunity. We can contemplate and remember the longing for
8am, 10:30am,
the coming of Christ as Saviour throughout the Old Testa-
11:30am & 12:30pm
ment, and we can look forward to His return in glory. He
The church closes
will be with us as we walk our own paths, with our brothers
after 12:30pm Mass.
and sisters, in His 'close and familiar way'.
10:30am- 11:30am
3pm-4pm
Christmas Eve.
Masses as usual:
8am, 10am,11:30am
1:10pm & 3pm.
Confessions:
10:30am to 1:30pm
St Stephen’s Day.
Masses at 10am & 11:30am.
The Church closes after
11:30am Mass.
2pm - 4pm
No 6pm Vigil Mass.
There are no confessions
Carol Service at 7:30pm
until Saturday 31st Dec
First Mass of Christmas .
2016
at 8pm.
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Blessed Charles de Foucauld
On December 1st, 1916, Blessed Charles de Foucauld died
at Tamanrasset, Algeria. Charles, a Trappist priest, had
gone to Algeria to live with those who were most forgotten
and most abandoned. His wish was to bring the light of the
Gospel to those who hadn't heard it. His hope was that
they would say, 'If this is how the servant is and lives, then
what of the Master?'.
According to Charles, God's infinite humility is the special
hallmark of what we celebrate at Christmas:- 'God, the infinite, the perfect, the all powerful Creator, immense, sovereign master of all, became a man, uniting himself to a human body and soul, and appearing on earth as the least of
men. . . He was born, He lived, and He died in the most terrible conditions, taking for the sake of all the last place so
that no one could be in a lower condition than he'.
Tuesday 27th December
Friday 30th December
Masses at 10am & 11:30am
Mass times are:
The Church closes after
8am,10am, 11:30am, & 3pm
11:30am Mass.
There is no 1:10pm Mass
St Jude Mass as usual at 8pm
Saturday 31st December
Wednesday 28th December.
Mass times are:
8am, 10am, 11:30am & 3pm.
There is no 1:10pm Mass.
Charles knew from prayerful reading of the Gospel that
Jesus came amongst us in a 'a close and familiar way'. This
was the pattern of the life of Christ from his birth to the
Ascension, and it is the way He makes himself alive in the
Most Holy Eucharist. It is the way, Charles says, Jesus
wants us to live with each other. We are not strangers to
each other. Charles marvelled that Jesus who said 'This is
my body' also said 'so long as you did it to the least of
these, you did it to me'. Charles, following Jesus, tried to
love everyone as an equal, a brother or sister, with great
humility, respect and selfless generosity.
Thursday 29th December
Mass times are:
Masses times are
8am, 10am, 11:30am
1:10pm, 3pm & 6pm
Confessions as usual.
Sunday 1st January 2017
Masses times as usual
8am, 10am, 11:30am & 3pm
There is no 1:10pm Mass.
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Monday 2nd January 2017
Friday 6th January.
Masses times are:
Mass times are:
10am & 11:30am
8am, 10am,11:30am,
Church closes after
1:10pm, 3pm, 6pm
11:30am Mass.
Tuesday 3rd January.
Saturday 7th January
Masses and confessions
Masses and confessions
as usual.
as usual.
Wednesday 4th January
Sunday 8th January
Masses and confessions
Mass times as usual.
as usual.
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