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St
Mary’s Church Bocan - 6th
April 2008
Third
Sunday of Easter
The Boy
who Nearly Won the Texaco Art Competition
- For Ted Hughes
he took a large
sheet
of white paper and on this
he made the world an african world
of flat topped trees and dried grasses
and he painted an elephant in the
middle
and a lion with a big mane and several
giraffes
stood over the elephant and some small
animals to fill
in the gaps he worked all day had
a bath this was Saturday
on Sunday he put
six jackals
in the world and a great big snake
And buzzards in the sky and tickbirds
on the elephants back he drew down
blue
from the sky to make a river and got
the elephants
legs all wet and smudged and one of
the jackals got drowned
he put red flowers in the front of
the picture and daffodils in the bottom
corners
and his dog major chewing a bone and
mrs murphys two cats tom and jerry
and milo the milkman with a cigarette
in the corner of his mouth
and his merville dairy float pulled
by his wonder horse trigger
that would walk when he said click
click and the holy family
in the top right corner with the donkey
and cow
and sheep and baby jesus and got the
40A bus
on Monday morning in to abbey street
to hand
it in and the man on the door said
that’s a sure winner
Joe Kane
[b. 1952]
Wouldn’t
it be great if we could all live life
through the optimistic eyes of a boy
like this?
Parish Missal
Readings (Year 1) p 250 & Proper
p 1038
First Reading
Acts of the Apostles 2: 14.22-28
Peter proclaims the Good News of Jesus
Christ.
Second Reading
1 Peter 1: 17-21
We have been saved by the blood of
Jesus, the Lamb of God.
Gospel Luke
24: 13-35
The disciples recognize Jesus in the
breaking of bread.
Mass
Times
Monday,
8 pm [Anniversary Mass of Kathleen
Doherty];
Vigil Mass
tonight is the Anniversary
Mass of Joseph Woods.
11 am Mass
tomorrow [Sunday] is the
Anniversary Mass of Michael
McDermott.
Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday & Saturday,
10 am.
Saturday,
Vigil, 8 pm;
Sunday,
8.30 am & 11 am.
Confessions
Saturday, 7.15 pm—7.45
Collections:
Weekly Offering €1,481 Development
Collection, €910; Trocaire, €3,000.
Thank you for your generosity.
All the sick of the parish will be
attended on Wednesday & Thursday
at the usual times.
A big
thank you to Kevin McLaughlin, Evelyn
Doherty and Brigid Miller for the
flowers for Easter and the Confirmation.
Sympathy
We offer our sympathy to the family
and friends of Marie Conaghan
whose funeral we had here on Easter
Monday. Marie had a long association
with Culdaff and it was her wish to
be buried here with her husband. Our
condolences to her sons Paul, Michael
& Rory; her daughters Joanne and
Clare and to the wider family circle.
May she rest in peace.
Whist
1st – Vera
Deeny, Terawee;
2nd – John
Duffy, Derry;
3rd – Margaret
McGilloway, Malin.
Tickets: Vera Deeny,
Terawee; Mickey McCormick, Moville;
Dolores O’Donnell, Ballybeg.
Other Winners: -,
Neily McCallion, Gleneely; Patricia
Harkin, Culdaff; Paddy McLaughlin,Gleneely
and Mary McDermott, Falmore.
Snowball next week:
€50 for 186 or more. Whist every
Friday night at 8.45 pm in Bocan Hall.
Confirmation - Congratulations
and thanks
Congratulations to the children, parents,
sponsors and teachers of all the children
who received the Sacrament on Wednesday.
A special word of thanks to Mary,
the choir and altar servers and to
the ladies who provided the much needed
refreshments afterwards. They all
contributed to a memorable day for
the children.
Bocan Community Defibrillator
Group - Meeting on Monday,
7th April at 8 pm In Bocan Hall. The
Group are holding their 1st Annual
Concert and Dance in Bocan Hall on
Friday, 9th May. Music is by Dominic
McDaid with guest appearances. More
details later.
Serenity House
Book Club Meeting on Tuesday,
8th April at 7.30 pm in Serenity House.
Mental Health Meeting
on Monday, 7th April at 7.30pm in
serenity House.
Chiropodist In Serenity House
on Friday, 25th April at 9.30. to
make an appointment call 086 0666538
/ 9360363.
Carndonagh Community School
Culdaff/Gleneely Parents of Carndonagh
Community School are asked to attend
a meeting on Tuesday, 8th April at
8 pm in Bocan Old School. Two Parental
nominees will be picked to contest
the election to the central parents
committee of CCS Board of Management.
Any concerns parents may have can
be aired at this meting and they will
be brought to the next central parents
committee meeting.
AWARE Depression Support
Group -Meet on the 2nd &
4th Monday of every month in the Nursing
Unit, McGinn Avenue, Buncrana. Come
along this Monday or phone 9735030
for more information. Aware Helpline
– 1890 303 302.
Easter
Judas betrayed him and Peter denied
him;
Other disciples forsook and fled.
Would I have been braver, if I had
been present,
And stayed with my Lord who so soon
would be dead?
Caiaphas plotted,
and Herod derided;
Pilate condemned him to hang on a
tree.
In their position I might have done
likewise,
Never imagining this was for me.
Mary mistook him,
and Thomas was doubting,
Paul dragged his followers bound into
jail.
How do I meet the New Testament challenge?
Could I succeed where such characters
fail?
Jesus forgave
them – the thief on the gallows,
The soldiers who killed him, and Peter
his friend.
His love did not fail in a world black
with hatred.
His love drew men back to his side
in the end.
Two thousand Easters
have gone like a shadow.
This is our moment in history’s
screed.
Jesus our Lover is calling us forward;
Through him, and only through him,
we succeed.
June Chantry.
Splinters
from the Cross
Little headaches, little heartaches,
Little griefs of every day.
Little trials and vexations
How they throng around our way.
One great cross, immense and heavy
So it seems to our weak will,
Might be borne with resignation
But these small ones kill.
Yet all life is formed of small things.
Little leaves make up the trees,
Many tiny drops of water
Blending, make the mighty seas.
Let us not then by impatience
Mar the beauty of the whole,
But for the love of Jesus bear all
In the silence of the soul.
Asking him for grace sufficient
To sustain us through each loss,
And to treasure each small offering
As a splinter from his Cross.
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