St
Mary’s Church Bocan
3rd June 2007—No 26
TRINITY SUNDAY
Money Matters:
Diocesan Purposes Collection
€1,425;
Development Collection, €1,065.
Thank you for your generosity.
Today’s Readings
1st Wisdom plays
a key role in creation;
2nd Paul shows how
the life of the Trinity is revealed
in those who believe;
Gospel The riches
of God’s own life are given
to us through the Spirit.
All the sick of the
parish will be attended on Wednesday
& Thursday at the usual times.
Culdaff Care
of the Aged
Annual General Meeting on Tuesday,
5th June at 8.30 pm in Bocan Old School.
All members please attend –
new members welcome.
Pioneer Total
Abstinence Association
Anyone wishing to become a full Pioneer
or is eligible for a Gold or Silver
Pin, please contact Anglea on 9379303
or Peggy on 9379304 before Friday,
8th June.
Bocan Youth
Club Rota – 8th June
Eilish Bell, Joe Donaghy, Rosalie
O’Connor, Susanna Henn.
A big thank you to Angela
and the Ceili group. Their recent
Ceili raised €800 for the Bocan
Hall Redevelopment Fund.
Annual Columba Community Lecture
Columba – Colmcille of Derry
Diplomat or Saint?
Lecture by JJ O’Riordan C.Ss.R
in St Canice’s Oratory at the
new IOSAS Centre on Friday, 15th June
at 8 pm. The Celtic garden will be
open from 7 pm. For information contact
Maureen on 9384866
Carndonagh Community school
The Post Leaving Certificate Department
is offering a course in Business Administration
and Tourism in the Academic Year 07/08
[FETAC Level 5]. The course consists
of modules in Administration, word
and Text Processing, Accounting, Spreadsheets,
Databases and Communications. Work
placement in local business firms
is also included. PLC students may
also repeat leaving certificate maths
while doing this course. Mature students
can also apply. Application forms
are available by phoning the school
on 9374260.
Carmelite Retreat
Centre
Monthly Devotions in Honour of Our
Lady will take place in the Carmelite
Retreat Centre on Tuesday, 5th June
at 7.30 pm
Gospel Reflection
for Trinity Sunday
In the Name of the Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit….
Today we look at who God is. God is
the Father who created a world for
us to cherish, and who created each
of us for an individual purpose. God
is the Son who came and lived among
us, teaching us how to become a part
of God’s Kingdom and saving
the world from sin. God is the Holy
Spirit left with us always to guide
us towards truth. God is three persons
but one God. Puzzled expressions all
around! Three persons in one…how
can this be? God is certainly a mystery,
but Jesus himself points out, we are
not expected to understand everything
all of the time. All that is expected
is that we keep searching for truth.
In Jesus’ farewell to his disciples
he says, “I have much more to
tell you, but you cannot hear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,
he will guide you to all truth.”
It is clear that Jesus is teaching
his disciples in stages. Like every
good teacher, Jesus knows that we
can only digest so much new information
at a time.
The original disciples had to learn
to walk before they could run, and
that goes for us too.
We are all at different stages in
our journey of faith, but that journey
should never become static. “I
have much more to tell you, but you
cannot hear it now.” Jesus implies
that we will be ready to learn more
at some future date and he is leaving
us the Spirit of truth to guide us
toward revelation. It is tempting
in the face of great mysteries like
the Trinity to give up and leave theology
to the great academics, but we are
reminded that God has revealed truth
to all sorts of people from small
children to acclaimed philosophers,
and from simple fishermen to learned
theologians.
God is a sensitive teacher, but
we have to play our part and be willing
students. In an age of improved communications,
discussion groups, television, competitive
publishing and the internet, there’s
not much excuse for us to cease searching
for insight and truth.
Today’s
Psalm- Today we look at who
God is. God is the Father who created
a world for us to cherish, and the
first reading offers a charming picture
of the Creator’s playfulness
and delight in being with his people.
God is not an abstract, philosophical
concept, nor a scientific remote-control,
but a family of intimate relationships,
going forth and returning, creating,
playing and delighting …’my
maker, my lover and my upholder’
[Julian of Norwich].
How great is
your name, O Lord our God, through
all the earth!
The psalmist contemplates the sky
at night and is filled with wonder
at the fantastic distances and harmonies
that govern the movements of moon
and stars; yet more wondrous is the
personal care of the Creator for each
individual person.
What is a man that you should keep
him in mind, mortal man that you care
for him?
Human beings are made little less
than a god, crowned with glory and
honour, and put in charge of all the
works of the Lord. This is a day to
open our eyes to the wonders of God
manifested in the complex harmony
and beauty of creation. And to open
our hearts to the intimacy of divine
love revealed to us in Jesus Christ.
Fr Silvester O’Flynn OFMCap
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