Ramsey PeelSaturday 12.30 pm Benefactors 10.00 am Communion Service

5:30 pm The Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament6.30 pm Parishioners

Sunday 11.00 am H. J. O Mahony (Anniv) 9.00 am Derek RichesMonday 10.00 am D. & J. Tait 10.00 am Communion ServiceTuesday 10.00 am Tom Emmett 7.30 pm Thanksgiving to Sacred HeartWednesday 7.30 pm Charlie Martin 10.00 am Communion ServiceThursday 10.00 am Ella McAleer Midday Private Intention Friday 10.00 am Dennis Sheppard Midday Rev. L. LeadleySaturday 12.30 pm Benefactors 10.00 am Communion Service

5:30 pm The Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament6.30 pm Parishioners

Sunday 11.00 am Adrian Pilgrim 9.00 am Norma’s Mother

Our Lady Star of the Sea & St. Maughold, Ramsey St. Patrick’s, PeelMasses and Services

ConfessionsRamsey : Saturday after 12.30pm Mass & 5.45-6.15pm Wednesday 7.00 - 7.20pm

Peel: Sunday 8.30 - 8.50am

Please remember to turn off your mobile phones when you enter the Church.

Last Week’s Donations: Ramsey - £633.17 Peel - £222.88

29th July - 6th August 2017

After Mass in both Peel and RamseyAfter Mass in both Peel and RamseyCoffee/Tea/Squash and homemade cakes are available after Mass every Sunday. Visitors are particularly welcome. Come along and join in the fellowship of your community.

Reading s f or t h e weekR ead in gs f o r th e weekMonday: Ex 32:15-24, 30-34; Ps 105:19-20, 21-22, 23; Mt 13:31-35Tuesday: Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28; Ps 102:6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13; Mt 13:36-43Wednesday: Ex 34:29-35; Ps 98:5, 6, 7, 9; Mt 13:44-46Thursday: Ex 40:16-21, 34-38; Ps 83:3, 4, 5-6a and 8a, 11; Mt 13:47-53Friday: Lev 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37; Ps 80:3-4, 5-6ab, 10-11ab; Mt 13:54-58 Saturday: Lev 25:1, 8-17; Ps 66:2-3,5,7-8; Mt 14:1-12

Feastdays of the weekFeastdays of the weekMonday St. Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits.Tuesday St. Alphonsus Ligouri, Founder of the Redemptorists.Wednesday St. Peter Eymard, Founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers.Friday St. John Vianney, Cure of Arts. Patron saint of priests.Saturday Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major.March for LifeMarch for LifeYou will have seen the poster on the Notice Board advertising the March for Life for today,Sunday 30th July.The idea is to celebrate Life from conception to natural death. It begins in Douglas at 3pm today.Meet at Bottleneck car park near the Sea Terminal on the Promenade walk way, and finish at theDerby Castle end of the Promenade walk way with light refreshments. Everyone is welcome.

Prayer of the Faithful: Lord, show us your mercy and love We respond: and grant us your salvation.

Parish Priest: Fr. Brian O Mahony, CSSp, www.manxcatholic.orgThie yn Taggyrt, Queen’s Promenade, Ramsey, IM8 4BH Tel. 813181 * Email: ourladystarofthesea@manx.net

As conflict has erupted once again between Israelis and Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the Latin Patriarchal Vicar said that theCatholic Church has a unique role to play in bringing about justice and peace.“When two religious communities lay claim to the same area, we have a recipe for disaster, particular when members of the twocommunities are also involved in a political, territorial and historical conflict,” Fr. David M. Neuhaus. “The Church has a very special vocation in Israel/Palestine. Without power of any kind, the Church is free from playing political games and can be a voicethat speaks out for truth, justice and peace.” The Church has important assets “to contribute to building a reality of justice andpeace instead of the war and violence that dominate,” he said.

The site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, where the al-Aqsa Mosque is located, was thescene of another round of violence last week when Israeli authorities installed metal detectors at the entrances of the mosque.Palestinian objection to the metal detectors manifested in mass protests and escalated to include the killing of three Israelis at aJewish settlement July 21. Four Palestinians were killed in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.The controversial metal detectorswere removed by Israeli security forces early Tuesday morning.

Fr. Neuhaus said that it can be very difficult to discern what is true and false in the conflict because each side has its own vision ofwhat is happening. “Why is it so difficult to find a solution to this conflict? Perhaps one part of the difficulty is that each one of thetwo sides believes in the total justice of its cause and is unwilling to listen with empathy to the other side,” he said.In the face of these clashes, the Church’s political neutrality has an important role to play, stemming from two important assets, heemphasized.

“One is the Church's way of speaking, formulating words carefully, words that are built on truth, that teach respect and that pro-mote justice and peace. This language is not diplomatic but rather language that works for reconciliation in the respect of truth.”The second comes from the Church’s “vast network” of institutions, including schools, universities, hospitals, and homes for theelderly, orphans, the handicapped, and more, he said. In these institutions, the discourse of the Church is incarnated as the insti-tutions serve one and all with no discrimination, showing that coexistence in mutual respect is not only possible but is the way for-ward that can open up the future, offering hope for the next generation.”

In the current controversy, Israel maintains it installed the metal detectors as a safety measure after three Arab Israeli gunmensmuggled homemade machine guns into the al-Aqsa Mosque July 14, shooting and killing two Israeli policemen. Palestiniansclaim the metal detectors were a way for Israel to enact more control over access to the site, which is governed by a status quoarrangement which Israel has said it will maintain. East Jerusalem has been occupied by Israel since its victory in 1967's Six-DayWar.

Israelis seem to live in perpetual fear and Palestinians in unrelenting anger, Fr. Neuhaus said. “Unfortunately, those who speak thelanguage of reason and understanding are unable to garner the support of the masses, who buy into the simplistic slogans of thedominant political elites.” The political authority in Israel “repeats that it is not changing the status quo and insists on this particu-larly in front of the international community,” Fr. Neuhaus said.

But at the same time, there are radicals in Israel “who explicitly endorse a change in the status quo” and have been supported ininstances by government ministries.

“The central problem is not restricting access to Al-Aqsa but rather the fear that the Israelis seek to replace Al-Aqsa with a JewishTemple.” “Any change to the status quo, however minor, is perceived as preparation for a hidden master plan that Palestinians(and the entire Muslim world) formulate as their worst nightmare. The Israelis are fully aware that this is the case as every threatto the status quo has erupted in similar violence in the past.”

Though the status quo for Christians and their holy places (like the Church of the Holy Sepulchre) is less threatened, the conflictbetween Palestinians and Israelis only serves to worsen the political divide already present among Christians – split betweenthose who are Arabs and thus form one with their Muslim brothers and sisters, and those integrated with the Jewish side.

“Nonetheless, Jewish extremists have manifested their refusal to coexist with Christians in the Holy Land through attacks onchurches and other Christian holy sites,” Fr. Neuhaus explained.

Because Christians only make up 2-3 percent of the overall population, they are particularly vulnerable under the ongoing instabili-ty and violence, he continued, but “Christians are determined to struggle for full integration in their society, whether Palestinian orIsraeli, demanding equal rights and mutual respect.”

“In times of conflict, the Christians are even more insistent in their prayers for peace.”(EWTN News)

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