St
Mary’s Church Bocan
6th May 2007—No 22
Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C
Money Matters:
Weekly Offering €1,690;
Development Collection, €1,085.
Thank you for your generosity.
Today’s
Readings
1st Today’s
First Reading brings a word of encouragement
from the preaching of Paul and Barnabas
in the early Christian Community;
2nd In John’s
vision of a renewed creation, there
will be no more sorrow. God will wipe
away the tears from every eye;
Gospel The distinguishing
mark of the Christian Community is
love. This lover overflows to the
whole world.
Confirmation
Thursday, 10th May at 6 pm by Bishop
Seamus Hegarty.
P.S. Meeting of the 5th Class
parents of both schools on Monday,
7th May at 8 pm in Bocan Hall.
PPS Spring Clean of Church
on Tuesday, 8th May at 7 pm.
Blessing of Hall
Bishop Hegarty will bless the newly
renovated Bocan Hall after the Confirmation
ceremony on Thursday.
All
the sick of the parish will be attended
on
Wednesday & Thursday at the usual
times.
Sympathy
Mary Doherty, Turmore
died peacefully in Carn Hospital after
patiently suffering from ill health
for some time. Our deepest sympathy
to her husband Paddy, her children
Marina, Ann, Dolores & Bernadette;
her grandchildren; her sisters Margaret
Ellen & Ann and the wider family
circle. May she rest in peace.
Sponsored Walk
A Sponsored Walk will take place on
Saturday, 12th May in aid of the James
Grey Fund. A bus will leave Gleneely
at 2pm taking walkers to Carn where
the walk will commence at 3 pm. On
return, refreshments will be provided
in Carrick’s Bar. Sponsor sheets
are available from Patrick on 9367956
Culdaff 5K One-Mile Road
Races
Inishowen Athletic Club will stage
the 5K and 1-Mile Road Races on Tuesday,
15th May. The mile race is for juvenile
athletes aged between 11 and 16 yrs
of age and begins at 7.30 pm. The
5K begins at 7.45 pm. There is a ‘goody
bag’ for all finishers. Registration
in the Wee Hall from 6.30 pm. Refreshments
and presentations in the Wee Hall
at 8.45 pm. All runners, joggers and
walkers are very welcome.
Hospitalite Cards
The Annual Lourdes Hospitalite Collection
takes place this weekend.
Serenity
House
Book Club –
Meeting on Tuesday, 15th May at 7.30
pm.
Active Retirement –
Meeting on Wednesday, 9th May at 7.30
pm in Serenity House.
Trip to Killarney –
Serenity House are organising a 5-Day
Trip to Killarney on 14th October
2007. For further information contact
Serenity House on 9382945. Book early
to secure a place.
ECDL – Names are being
taken for the ECDL Advanced Module
which begins on Thursday, 17th May.
Contact Serenity House on 9382945
for more details.
Job Club/Inishowen Partnership
– New Programme starting in
Moville. If you are looking for a
job or thinking about going back into
the workplace then contact Aisling
on 9361376.
UMBRO Clothes Collection
Tuesday, 8th May at 12 Noon in the
Chapel Car Park.
Marie Keating
Foundation
Donegal Action Cancer are delighted
to host the Marie Keating Foundation
“To Enlighten not Frighten”
on Thursday, 10th May. You can visit
them in the car –park of Canny
and Doherty Super Valu from 12.30-
2 pm. They will also address members
of DACC at their monthly meeting on
Thursday, 10th May in the Mount Errigal
Hotel, Letterkenny.
Culdaff FC
Grand Draw – Early Bird Special
will be held in McGuinness’s
Bar on Monday night at 9 pm. All ticket
stubs must be returned by Sunday evening.
Getting
it right
A sense of urgency in many lives today,
with many minds sitting in church
racing ahead to what tasks are for
accomplishing over the weekend. We
flit and fly around the place, but
rarely stop and wonder.
In a real
sense this 21st century sense of hurriedness
is mirrored in the readings echoing
21 centuries of human experience.
Paul and Barnabas cover impressive
amounts of territory {First Reading}.
If they had our modern modes of transport
available to them, we can only wonder
how much more they might have achieved.
Jesus picks
up on this with words like ‘now’
‘very soon’.’ Why
– because he won’t [physically
‘be with you much longer.’
Which should make us stop in our tracks
with out production line planning
of the day. Suppose this was my last
day – are my current preoccupations
really that worthy? Probably not.
We’re told that the mutual love
of all Christians is the greatest
sign of the presence of the Risen
One. What inheritance are we leaving
behind to those who follow us? One
hymn puts it, ‘They Will Know
We Are Christians By Our Love.’
In our case, we can only wonder –
would they really?
Fr Tom
Cox
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