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Mary’s Church Bocan - 5th October
2008
27th
Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Reasons
for Life
I don't know how
to say it, but somehow, it seems to
me
That maybe we are stationed where
God wants us to be;
That the little place I’m filling
is the reason for my birth.
And, just to do the work I do, he
sent us down earth.
If God had wanted otherwise, I reckon
He'd have made
Me just a little different, of a worse
or better grade.
And, since God knows and understands
all things of land and sea,
I fancy that He placed me here just
where He wanted me.
Sometimes I get to thinking, as my
labours I review,
That I should like a higher place
with greater things to do;
But I come to the conclusion ,when
the envying is stilled,
That the post to which God sent me
is the post He wanted filled.
So, I plod along and struggle in the
hope, when day is through
That I’m really necessary to
the things God wants to do;
And there isn’t any service
I can give, which I should scorn,
For it may be just the reason God
allowed that I be born.
~ Some
verses taken from a poem
entitled "Reasons For Life by
Cardinal Newman ~
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The
vineyard of the Lord is the
house of Israel. |
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Mass
Times
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday &
Saturday, 10 am.
Saturday,
Vigil, 8 pm;
Sunday,
8.30 am & 11 am.
Confessions
Saturday, 7.15 pm—7.45 pm.
Anniversary
Masses
Vigil Mass:
Mamie Davenport, Culdaff;
11 am: James
Doherty, Bootagh;
Next Saturday’s Vigil
Mass, 8 pm: Claire Doherty,
St Boden’s Tce.
Next Sunday:
11 am Mass,Catherine Doherty, Carthage.
We
mourn the deaths of
Jimmy Mooney, Effishmore
& Mary McDaid,
Redford.
Jimmy suffered
from ill health for some time - we
sympathise with his brothers,
Pat, John and Barney and sister Nellie;
his nephews and nieces and the wider
family circle.
Mary was
blessed with a long life and we offer
our sympathy to her son James, her
daughters, Hannah, Margaret, Elizabeth,
Eileen and Catherine; her grandchildren
and wider family circle.
May they be rewarded in
heaven for their goodness in this
life.
Weekly
Offering: €1,860
Development
Collection, €1,015;
Good-as-new
shop, €1,500.
Thank
you for your generosity.
Inishowen
Regional Pioneer Dinner Dance
In Caiseal Mara Hotel, Moville on
Friday, 17th October. Meal served
at 9 pm. Tickets €20 and are
available from Peggy 9379304 or Angela
9379303.
Day
for Life
Live all you can; it’s a mistake
not to. It doesn’t matters so
much what you do in particular, so
long as you have had your life. If
you haven’t had that, what have
you had? What one loses one loses;
make no mistake about that. The right
time is any time that one is still
lucky enough to be alive. Live!
Henry
James 1843-1916
Whist
1st: James McConalogue,
Cashel
2nd : John Duffy,
Derry;
3rd: Philip McCool,
Carn
Tickets Matthew Davenport-Doherty;
Paddy McLaughlin; Mary Ellen Ruddy.
Other Winners
Eamon Donaghy, Mary Ellen Ruddy, Gerard
Doherty, Vera Deeny, Seamus Harkin.
Whist every Friday night at 8.45
pm in Bocan Hall. Snowball
€100 for 183 or more.
Macklin School
- Next Weekend: Featuring
‘Little John Nee’ with
an exciting evening’s entertainment
in Bocan Hall at 9 pm. Not to be missed!!
Upcoming
Events!
Tour de Culdaff
St Boden’s N.S. are holding
a 60km [Adult] and 20 km [Junior over
12’s] Fundraising Cycle in aid
of school funds. The cycle will take
place on Sunday 26th October at 10
am. Registration begins at 9 am in
the school. All cyclists, both advanced
and beginners welcome to join in.
contact Noleen on 087 2140703 for
sponsorship forms etc. Please come
along and join in.
Carmelite
Retreat Centre
Monthly Devotions in Honour of Our
Lady – Tuesday, 7th October
at 7.30 am.
World Heart
Day
To mark World Heart Day there will
be a 3.4 km walk this Sunday, 5th
October, beginning at the Wee Hall
at 3 pm. More details from Michelle
on 086 0811 299.
Serenity
House
Active Retirement –
Music evening in McNamara’s
Hotel on Wednesday, 22 October from
9 pm – 11 pm. Music by Dominick
McDaid. Admission: €5 and everyone
is welcome.
Active Retirement
meeting on Wednesday, 15th
October at 7.30 pm. Guest speaker
for the evening will be Senator Mary
White, Dublin.
DaCapo Concert
Series- Fowler Hall, Tooban,
Fahan on Sunday, 19 October at 7.30
pm. An evening of top class classical
music is promised. Tickets: €12
[€8 concession]. To book: 9383734
/ 087 2259858.
John Michael
Talbot- An evening of Music
and Reflection led by the world’s
foremost Christian recording artist.
Live at the Playhouse, St Columb’s
Theatre, Derry on 12th October at
8.30 pm. To book contact 04871351233.
The
Deep End – Day for Life
When I started using a computer for
the first time in 1990 I had to download
some loony lingo into my brain. Acronyms
were all the go. You had WYSIWYG:
What You See Is What You Get, or,
don’t blame your computer for
your silly mistakes. Another was GIGO:
Garbage In, Garbage Out, or, don’t
blame your computer for spewing out
your sow’s ear instead of a
silk purse.
Alive and well, the GIGO maxim applies
not only to computers but also to
life, especially today as we celebrate
Ireland’s ‘Day for Life’.
This celebration, an initiative of
the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences
of Ireland, Scotland and England &
Wales, is celebrated in Ireland, Britain
and Scotland each year – in
Ireland since 2001. It’s a response
to the proposal of the late Pope John
Paul II that ‘a day for life
be celebrated each year in every country
to foster individual consciences,
in families, in the Church, and in
civil society, a recognition of the
meaning and value of human life at
every stage and in every condition’
[Evangelium Vitae # 85].
Now, back to GIGO. Or, what you put
into life is what you get out of it.
In today’s Second Reading, Phil
4: 6-9, Paul tells us what to put
in: truth, honour, justice, purity,
excellence, and whatever is pleasing,
commendable, or worthy of praise.
We should focus on these, absorbing
them, savouring them and allow them
to do their work of bringing happiness,
gratitude, and peace into the human
heart.
Perhaps, GIGO needs an update:
Goodness IN, Goodness Out.
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
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