Parish Mission 9th - 23rd September 2017
www.sioncommunity.org.uk
Faith Working Through Love

Programme of Events

Date	Time	Event	Location
Saturday 9th	7:00 pm	Vigil Mass Introducing the Sion Community Team	Church
Sunday 10th	11:00 am	Sunday Mass Introducing the Sion Community Team	Church
	6:30 pm	Sunday Mass Introducing the Sion Community Team	Church
Monday 11th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mass Faith Sharing Refreshments	Church
	12noon - 1:00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	6:00 pm - 6:45 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7:00 pm	Mass	Church
Tuesday 12th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mass Faith Sharing Refreshments	Church
	12noon - 1:00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	6:00 pm	Confession	Church
	6:00 pm - 6:45 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7:00 pm	Mass	Church
Wednesday 13th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mass Faith Sharing Refreshments	Church
	12noon - 1:00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	12:45 pm	Confession	Church
	6:00 pm - 6:45 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7:00 pm	Mass	Church
Thursday 14th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mass Faith Sharing Refreshments	Church
	12noon - 1:00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	6:00 pm - 6:45 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7:00 pm	Mass	Church
Friday 15th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mass Faith Sharing Refreshments	Church
	10:30 am	School Mass	St Joseph's School
	12noon - 1:00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7:00 pm	Mass	Church
Saturday 16th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mass Faith Sharing Refreshments	Church
	7:00 pm	Vigil Mass	Church
Sunday 17th	11:00 am	Sunday Mass	Church
	3:30 pm	Celebration for Ministries	Church
	6:30 pm	Sunday Mass	Church
Monday 18th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30a m	Mission Mass Faith Sharing Prayer Experience	Church
	12noon - 1.00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7.00 pm	Evening Celebration "Who is my neighbour?"	Church
Tuesday 19th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mission Mass Faith Sharing Prayer Experience	Church
	12noon - 1.00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7.00 pm	Evening Celebration "I'm coming to your house"	Church
Wednesday 20th	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mission Mass Faith Sharing Prayer Experience	Church
	12noon - 1.00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7.00 pm	Evening Celebration "Get up!" Opportunity for Confession	Church
Thursday 21st	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mission Mass Faith Sharing Prayer Experience	Church
	12noon - 1.00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7.00 pm	Evening Celebration "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me"	Church
Friday 22nd	9.10 am	Morning Prayer	Church
	9.30 am	Mission Mass Faith Sharing Prayer Experience	Church
	12noon - 1.00 pm	Eucharistic Adoration	Church
	7.00 pm	Evening Celebration "Rejoice and be glad!"	Church
Saturday 23rd	12 noon	Mass Sacrament of The Sick	Church
	1.30 pm	Parish Social Shared Table and Entertainment	St Joseph's School
	7.00 pm	Vigil Mass	Church
Sunday 24th	11:00 am	Sunday Mass	Church
Sunday 24th	6:30 pm	Sunday Mass	Church

Evangelii Gaudium

Ch 1 The Church's Missionary Transformation

Part 3 From The Heart of The Gospel

37. Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that the Church's moral teaching has its own "heirarchy", in the virtues and in the acts which proceed from them.

39. What counts above all else is "faith working through love (Gal 5:6). Works of love directed to one's neighbour are the most perfect external manifestation of the interior grace of the Spirt: "The foundation of the New Law is in the grace of the Holy Spirit, who is manifested in the faith which works through love".

40. Thomas thus explains that, as far as external works are concerned, mercy is the greatest of all the virtues: "In itself mercy is the greatest of all the virtues, since all the others revolve around it and, more than this, it makes up for their deficiences. This is particular to the superior virtue, and as such is it proper to God to have mercy, through which his omnipotence is manifested to the greatest degree".