Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Despite the imagery Jesus uses in today’s gospel this parable isn’t about farming or gardening. You know that and so do I. It’s about us, you and me. It’s about our lives, marriages, parenting, and friendships. It’s about our work and our faith. It’s about our pain and needs. It’s about those who are struggling and holding on by a thread. It’s about injustice and the violence we do to ourselves, others, and our environment. It’s about living with meaning and purpose. It’s about healing, wholeness, and well-being for others as well as ourselves. It’s about hope and our future. It’s about the coming of God’s kingdom, the one we pray for every Sunday. Jesus is tossing out a story the way the sower tosses out seeds. The story lands beside our lives as a mirror in which to see ourselves, as a window into our hearts. Seeds are about life. They hold possibility and potential. They get things started. They are a beginning. They carry our hopes. They are the sower’s commitment to the future. There are all sorts of seeds – seeds of love, friendship, compassion, forgiveness; seeds of vulnerability and intimacy; seeds of hope and change; seeds of success and accomplishment; seeds of truth, healing, and justice; seeds of anger, resentment, discord, and division; seeds of judgment, indifference, fear, hatred. Every feeling, emotion, attitude, and experience we have comes with a packet of seeds and we each have to decide if that’s really what we want to scatter on the earth, in our families and friendships. Michael K. Marsh
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Anniversaries This Weekend
Borris-in-Ossory 12th July 2026
Kitty, Dickie and Sharon O’ Brien,
Canon Sean Collier
Knockaroo Mass 9.30 a.m
Mai Comerford
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Social Services Tour
Borris-in-Ossory Social Services Tour will take place this Wednesday 15th July leaving the Church car park after 8.30 a.m. Mass. Please contact Margaret Breen 087 9217033 for details.
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Social Dancing
Killasmeestia Social Dancing will take place in Killasmeestia Community Hall on Saturday 18th July from 9.00 p.m. to 12.00 p.m.
Music by Dermot and Irene Ring.
Refreshments served, all are welcome.
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Knock Pilgrimage
Borris-in-Ossory Parish Annual Pilgrimage to Knock will take place on Thursday the 20th August. Please contact Marie Power 087 9766248 for details.
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Eucharistic Ministers Next Weekend 19th July
Borris-in-Ossory SUNDAY 11.00 a.m.
Noreen Hanrahan,
Eileen Sweeney,
Mary Sheeran,
Margaret Bourke
Killasmeestia SUNDAY 9.30 a.m.
Gerry O’ Connor
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Church Readers Next Weekend 19th July
Borris-in-Ossory SUNDAY 11.00 a.m.
Margaret Burke
Killasmeestia SUNDAY 9.30 a.m.
Mary Bergin
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