| Sunday
7th June 2009
Trinity
Sunday
Jesus said to his
disciples: "Know that
I am with you always; yes, to the
end of time." What a
wonderful consolation and strength
that promise that Jesus made to us
is for his followers! He is with us
in so many ways - in the Sacraments;
in the Eucharist; in our prayers.
But Jesus is especially with us always
in our love relationships, especially
in marriage and family life. He is
also with us through our parish community.
That is the meaning of being a parish
- a people among whom Jesus lives.
And the wonderful thing is that he
is also present to our world always
through us. We have a serious responsibility
to build our homes and parishes into
real living communities of faith and
love so that Jesus can bring salvation
to our world and so that our God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit may be
praised and glorified.
Fr. Johnny Doherty, C.Ss.R.
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Happy
the people the Lord has chosen
as his own. |
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Sunday, 7th
June 2009
The Most Holy
Trinity
First Reading
Deuteronomy 4: 32-34, 39-40
Moses reminds the people of the close
and loving relationship God established
with them, and of the obligation and
blessings that flow from such a relationship
Second Reading
Romans 8: 14-17
Through the in-dwelling of the Holy
Spirit, we have become children of
God, and co-heirs with Christ his
Son.
Gospel Matthew
28: 16-20
In his last appearance to his apostles,
Jesus commissions them to preach the
Gospel to all peoples, and promises
to be with them to the end of time.
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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
Sunday, 11am: James McLaughlin,
The Mill
Weekly
Offering: €1,525; Development
Collection: €900. Thank you for
your generosity.
All the
sick of the parish will be attended
on Wednesday & Thursday at the
usual times
Car Boot
Sale takes place this
afternoon [Sunday] from 2 pm –
6 pm. Come along and maybe bag a bargain!!!
2012
Eucharistic Congress
National Collection next weekend
Pope Benedict XV1 has announced that
Ireland will host the 50th International
Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in
2012. The cost of planning and hosting
the Congress will be considerable.
The Bishops have requested that a
special collection be taken up on
the weekend of Corpus Christi each
year until 2012. Next weekend, 13/14
June the collection replaces the Development
Fund Collection.
Trinity
We adore you, God the Father, who
creates us and gives us life; we worship
you, Wisdom of the Father, whose gift
of renewed life enables us to live
wisely; we praise you, Holy Spirit,
for by loving you, and loving in you,
we live happily and dwell forever
in utmost bliss. We bless you, three
Persons in one God, by whom, through
whom and in whom we exist. Though
we turn from you by sinning and lose
our likeness to you, you continue
to uphold us; for you have made us
in your likeness and it is you, the
source of life, who renew that likeness
in us. To you be glory for ever and
ever. Amen.
Whist
1st Fr McGonagle,
Bocan
2nd John Duffy, Derry
3rd Therese McEleney,
Culdaff
Tickets – John
Duffy, Derry, Ellen Ann Lafferty,
Glengad, Seamus Harkin, Gleneely..
Other winners
– James McConalogue, Brian Diver
& Vera Deeny.
Whist
every Friday at 8.45 pm
Snowball
- €50 for 188 or better
Serenity
House, Moville are forming
a Carers Support Group commencing
September 09. If anyone is interested
in this support group, please contact
Serenity House on 9382945 for further
information.
Serenity
House, Moville are organizing
a day trip to the Glens of Antrim
and the Giant Causeway on 7 July.
For further information contact Serenity
House on 9382945. Seats will be allocated
on a first come, first serve basis,
so book early to avoid disappointment.
AWARE
– Depression Support Group
June
Meetings
The AWARE Depression Support Group
meets in the Nursing Unit, Maginn
Avenue on the 2nd & 4th Monday
of each month at 7.30 pm. Meetings
this month will take place on 8th
& 22nd June. Come along this Monday
or ring the AWARE Regional Office
on 97355030 for a free information
pack or for further details.
‘Spring
Chickens’
by Big Telly Theatre Company
This play will be performed in the
Millennium Forum, Derry on Saturday,
3 October. It will be written, designed
and performed entirely by participants
in the project. If you are over 60
and are interested in finding out
more, an open day will take place
on Thursday, 25 June in the Upper
Piazza of the Millennium Forum from
11 am – 1 pm, we look forward
to meeting you.
The
Deep End – An Unholy Distance
[Fr Tom Cahill]
The heavenly honorific of today’s
feast puts me in mind of the teacher
who told her six-year-olds to write
to God and ask him a question. I’m
sure he smiled at Jennie’s .
She wrote, ‘Dear God, in bible
times did they really talk that fancy?’
Jesus never spoke ‘fancy’
about his Father. So why should we?
Two possibilities come to mind. First,
we want to be reverential. The problem
here, however, is that the language
we use when ‘reverential’
can be all head and no heart. Consequently,
we put God at a distance he neither
wants nor observes. Love draws, it
doesn’t repel. So, if we call
God a trinity, how can we call love
an abstraction?
Second, we don’t have a clue
who, or what, God is. This may be
truer than we feel comfortable admitting.
So we resort to abstraction. Now for
some peculiar reason the more abstractly
you present something the more profound
some people think you are. I tend
to think the opposite. It’s
only when you know something inside
out that you can describe it simply.
Profundity and simplicity go hand-in-hand,
not profundity and abstraction –
unless, of course, God can be reduced
to a mathematical equation.
So how then to talk of God? Well if
the purpose is to reveal God in some
way, talk is not the best way to go
about it. Example is. Just as surely
as talk of love can never replace
the real thing, so ‘trinity’
can never replace the simplicity of
Father, Son and the Love between them.
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