Sunday 3rd July 2010

Fourteenth Sunday of the year

Readings: Isa 66:10-14; Gal 6: 14-18; LK 10:1-12

The Mission of the Seventy Two

1. After this the lord appointed seventy -[two] others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town he intended to visit. 2. He said to them, "the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few"; so ask the master of the harvest to send laborers for his harvest......4. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way.

LK 1-3; 4. Holy Bible School and Church Edition.

From the begining the message of Jesus to his followers was to spread the good news, they were not to worry about material goods but to concentrate on their spiritual life. Here in Dublin as far back as 1445 Henry V1 of England granted a licence for a guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mulhuddart, to be established. The guild members are thought to have for the most part given alms to the poor. They may also have looked after the church and acted as stewards to the many pilgrims who visited Lady's well on the 8th of September each year.