Theme:  Celebration

Entrance: HEAL THE WORLD
There’s a place in your heart and I know that it is love.  And this place could be much brighter than tomorrow.  And if you really try, you’ll find there’s no need to cry.  In this place you’ll feel there’s no hurt or sorrow.  There are ways to get there, If you care enough for the living.  Make a little space, Make a better place

Ch:         Heal the world, make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying, If you care enough for the living.  Make a better place for you and for me.
 

And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face.  And the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.  Then why do we keep strangling life, wound this earth, crucify its soul. Though it’s plain to see this world is heavenly, Be God’s glow

We could fly so high, let our spirits never die

In my heart I feel you are all my brothers

Create a world with no fear, Together we’ll cry happy tears.  See the nations turn their swords into ploughshares.  We could really get there, If you cared enough for the living.  Make a little space, To make a better place

Ch:         Heal the world, make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying, If you care enough for the living. Make a better place for you and for me (X 2)

(Make a better place for you are for me, you and for me,  you and for me, you and for me)

Psalm:  SHOWER THE PEOPLE

You can play the game and you can act out the part.  Though you know it wasn't written for you.

But tell me how can you stand there with your broken heart, Ashamed of playing the fool

One thing can lead to another, it doesn't take any sacrifice.  Father and Mother, Sister and Brother

If it feels nice, don't think twice, just

Shower the people you love with love, show them the way that you feel.  Things are gonna work out fine if you only will, if you only will

Shower the people you love with love, show them the way that you feel.  Things are gonna be much better, if you only will

You can run but you cannot hide, this is widely known.  And what you plan to do with your foolish pride, When you're all by yourself, all alone.

Once you tell somebody the way that you feel

You can feel it beginning to ease.  I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel

Always getting the grease, better to

Shower the people you love with love, show them the way that you feel.  Things are gonna work out fine if you only will, if you only will

Shower the people you love with love [x6]

Offertory: BRIGHT BLUE ROSE

I skimmed across black water, without once submerging Onto the banks of an urban morning.

That hungers the first light much, much more

Than the mountains every do.

And she like a ghost beside me, goes down with the ease of a dolphin, And emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed.  She is the perfect creature, natural in every feature, and I am the geek with the Alchemist's stone

For all of you who must discover, for all who seek to understand.  For having left the path of others, you'll find a very special hand.

And it is a holy thing and it is a precious time

And it is the only way.  Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes.

To ponder His death and His life eternally.

For all of you who must discover, for all who seek to understand.  For having left the path of others, you'll find a very special hand.

And it is a holy thing and it is a precious time

And it is the only way.  Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes

To ponder His death and life eternally. 

One bright Blue Rose outlives all those, two thousand years and still it goes to ponder his death and his life eternally.

TODAY THE RATHMINES FOLK GROUP CELEBRATES 37 YEARS.   

Acclamation:  Give Thanks

Give thanks, with a grateful heart

Give thanks, to the holy one

Give thanks, because He’s given Jesus Christ, His son.  And now, let the weak say I am strong

Let the poor say I am rich.  Because of what the Lord has done for us.  Give thanks.

COMMUNION: OH HAPPY DAY

Oh happy day, oh happy day

When Jesus washed, oh when He washed

When Jesus washed, He washed my sins away

Oh happy day

Oh happy day, oh happy day

When Jesus washed, oh when He washed

When Jesus washed, He washed my sins away

Oh happy day

He taught me how to watch, fight and pray

Fight and pray.  And live rejoicing every day, every day.

Oh happy day, oh happy day

When Jesus washed, oh when He washed

When Jesus washed, He washed my sins away

Oh happy day, oh happy day

Reflection:- Today we celebrate 37 years of the Rathmines Folk Group, our music and singing and all the friendships we have made over the years.  We celebrate the lives of group members and everyone associated with the folk group and the six o’clock mass who have died and who are with us today in spirit.  We celebrate the support and encouragement we have received from the priests of the parish and from you the congregation.  We celebrate that we are all here together in the transforming experience and freedom of the power of the present moment.  We celebrate NOW what is to come.

Recessional: We Shall Be Free

Oh Oh Oh.  When the last child cries

For a crust of bread

When the last man dies for just words that he said

When there's shelter over the poorest head

We shall be free

When the last thing we notice

Is the colour of skin

And the first thing we look for

Is the beauty within

When the skies and the oceans are clean again

We shall be free

We shall be free, We shall be free, Stand straight, Walk proud, Cos we shall be free

When we're free to love anyone we choose

When this world's big enough for all different views.  When we all can worship from our own kind of pews.  Then we shall be free

We shall be free, We shall be free, Have a little faith, Hold out, Cos we shall be free

And when money talks for the very last time

And nobody walks a step behind

When there's only one race, and that's mankind, Then we shall be free

We shall be free, We shall be free,

Stand straight      (Walk proud)

Have a little faith    (Hold out)

We shall be free,

We shall be free, We shall be free                   Stand Straight, (Stand straight),

Have a little faith, (Walk proud)

We shall be free

Stand Straight, Walk Proud, We Shall be Free

Please remember Liam Hennelly and Trish Lynch in your prayers today.