3rd Sunday of Advent
POPE FRANCIS: “God is a Dad”
God not only helps us, but he also makes us promises of joy, of a great harvest, to help us move forward. “God,” repeated Pope Francis, “is not just father but a Dad”.
“Am I able to speak with the Lord like this or am I afraid? Everyone answers. But someone can say, he can ask: “But what is the theological place of God’s tenderness? Where can the tenderness of God be found? What is the place where God’s tenderness is best manifested? “-” In our mutual respect and care for one another, the wounded saviour reaching out through a wounded people to help the wounded..
And the Pope recalled the parable of the Good Samaritan: there, someone bent over the man who had stumbled upon brigands and helped him by cleaning his wounds and paying for his recovery. Here is “the theological place of God’s tenderness: our wounds”.
And the Pope concludes by exhorting us to think about the Lord’s invitation during the day: “Come on, come on: show me your wounds. I want to heal them “. “rid ourselves of all pride and arrogance
MANISTER & FEDAMORE PARISHES
CHRISTMAS MASSES
Christmas Eve
Young Children 6pm Manister
Fedamore: Christmas Eve 7pm
Manister: Christmas Eve 8pm
Christmas Day Mass
Fedamore: 10.30am
Manister: 11.30am
St. Stephen’s Day
Fedamore: 11.00am
27th December: St. John the Evangelist
Fedamore: 10.00
INKLINGS
Pain and suffering are inevitable in life.
Being miserable about it is your choice! (Anon)
Those who wish to sing always find a song. (Swedish proverb)
I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face…I say to myself, I’ve lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
If you do not hope, you will not find out what is beyond your hopes.
(St. Clement)
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every passer-by leaves a mark. (Chinese proverb)
Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean. (Dag Hammerskold)
It was in the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
Every Christmas I get an awful pain that stays for a week, then my in-laws go back to their own home. (G. H. Richards)
BRAINBOX’S PERFECT QUIZ
- Who was the 4th President of Ireland?
- Who did Mary visit after receiving the news of her conception of Jesus?
- Who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader in 1985?
- What is the Marian Feast that is celebrated every year on the 1st January?
5. Britain lost 11 whole days when it finally adopted what in 1752?
“Its A Wonderful Life”
Frank Russell Capra was an Italian-American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.
He produced and directed “It’s a Wonderful Life” is in 1946,based on a short story “The Greatest Gift”, which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939. The film is considered one of the most loved films in American cinema and has become traditional viewing during the Christmas season.
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and how different life in his community of Bedford Falls would be had he never been born.
It performing poorly at the box office , yet the film is now recognised as a classic. at that time It seemed to confirm, that Capra was no longer capable of turning out the winning features that made his films the must-see, events they once were.
Now, “It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of the most critically acclaimed films ever made. It is recognized by the American Film Institute as number 11 on its list of the 100 best American films ever made, and is placed number one on its list of the most inspirational American films of all time.
Capra said. “I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries”. This is a great drama and touches our hearts and even prompts us to shed a comforting tear! Sit down and enjoy it over Christmas!
ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ
(1) Erskine Hamilton Childers (11 Dec 1905 – 17 Nov 1974) served as the 4th President of Ireland from June 1973 to Nov 1974. (2) Elizabeth. (3) Mikhail Gorbachev. (4) Mary the Mother of God. (5) The Gregorian Calendar.
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