St
Mary’s Church Bocan
8th April 2007 — No 19
Mass
Times
Monday, 7.30 pm,[ Anniversary Mass
for Michael McDermott, Drumley],
Tuesday, 9.30 am;
Wednesday, Requiem
Mass for Joe Woods, 7.30 pm;
Thursday, Friday &
Saturday, 9.30 am .
Monday—Friday,
11 am.
Confessions
Saturday, 7.15 pm—7.45 pm.
Responsorial Psalm
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
EASTER
Rise, heart, thy lord is risen. Sing
his praise
Without delays,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou
likewise
With him may'st rise:
That, as his death calcinèd
thee to dust,
His life may make thee gold, and,
much more, just.
Awake, my lute, and
struggle for thy part
With all thy art,
The cross taught all wood to resound
his name
Who bore the same.
His stretchèd sinews taught
all strings what key
Is best to celebrate this most high
day.
Consort, both heart
and lute, and twist a song
Pleasant and long;
Or, since all music is but three parts
vied
And multiplied;
O let they Blessed Spirit bear a part,
And make up our defects with his sweet
art.
I got me flowers to
strew the way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st thy sweets along
with thee.
The Sun arising in the East,
Though he give me light, & th’
East perfume;
If they should offer to contest
With thy, arising, they presume.
Can there be any day but this,
Though many suns to shine endeavour?
We count three hundred, but we miss:
There is but one, and that one ever.
George
Herbert 1593—1633
Money Matters:
Weekly Offering €1,900;
Development Collection, €1,055;
Thank you for your generosity.
Today’s
Readings
1st Reading
Peter proclaims that the Resurrection
of Jesus is foundational;
2nd Reading
[Col 3: 1-4] Paul assures us that
we, like Jesus, are called to share
the glory of God;
Gospel
We listen to John’s version
of the Resurrection story.
Bocan Hall
A small committee has been set up
as follows:
Caroline Mooney [Chairperson],
Eilis Bell [Secretary & Bookings
087 2410589],
Tommy Lafferty, Danny Collins, Angela
Mooney & Fr Jim McGonagle.
This committee will be responsible
for the running of the Hall along
with the various groups that use the
Hall. A FAS cleaner may be appointed
later.
Congratulations
to Chris Neff & Co [Architects]
and George Gill & Sons [Contractors]
for a job well done.
All the sick of the parish
will be attended on Wednesday &
Thursday at the usual times.
Concert
We look forward to having Joe
Cuddhy starring in our Concert
on Friday night. Joe is internationally
famous and has for many years fronted
the very successful show in the Shelbourne
Hotel, Dublin [you will need your
hankies for the tears of laughter].
Joe will be ably backed-up by our
all-local array of talent. It’s
a night not to be missed. Doors open
at 7.30 pm and the show starts at
8 pm. Admission is adults €10;
Children: €5; Families €20.
P.S There will
be a rehearsal in the Hall on Wednesday
night at 7 pm. All participants and
helpers please come along.
Acknowledgement
A word of thanks to the Hillhead Presbyterian
congregation for their kind donation
to our Hall Fund when our choir sang
at a concert there.
Thanks
Many thanks to the FAS workers who
have done a good job of painting the
walls of the Church. Looks great for
Easter.
Inishowen Disability Group
- Volunteers are Urgently needed for
Milltown House Carndonagh on a Monday.
You do not need to be a swimmer just
willing and able; also needed are
bus assistants. If you can help contact
Mary on 9157393 or Margaret on 9374529.
Serenity
House
The next meeting of the Moville
Book club takes place on
Tuesday, 17 April at 7.30 pm.
Sage Line 50 [Stage 1] –
Names are being taken for this course
which will commence on Monday, 16th
April at 7 pm. If you are in employment,
you may be entitled to have 70% of
your fees paid under the FAS Competency
Development Programme.
Asperger Support Group -
Meeting in Serenity House on Monday,
16th April at 8 pm. Parents or carers
of children or adults with Asperger
Syndrome are very welcome.
Children’s Chess Club –
The chess club will be recommencing
in Serenity House on Thursday, 26th
April .
Easter
Prayer
The
Lord is risen!
He is risen indeed!
Alleluia!
Lord
Jesus, we greet you, risen from the
dead.
We
thought that your way of love was
a dead end, leading only to the cross:
now we see that it is the way of life.
We
thought that your whole life was wasted:
now we know that it was gloriously
worthwhile.
We
thought that your suffering was pointless:
now we can see God’s purpose
in it.
We
thought that death was the end of
us: now we know that your life was
too great to be ended by death.
Lord
Jesus, we greet you, risen from the
dead.
Rhythms of the heart
Not a lot happens on Monday mornings
in most cultures. For the Western
world it is the start of the working
week, with survival the goal of the
grim-faced commuters. Dean Swift,
in caustic vein, called Monday the
Parson’s holiday, but it certainly
isn’t a day of rest for the
medical professions, with illnesses
spiking on a Monday morning.
In the Jewish world our Sunday is
the ‘Monday’, the first
day of the week, the day after the
Saturday Sabbath. Did this loving
troupe risking an early visit to a
borrowed grave in what was then the
city rubbish dump expect much? We’ll
never know.
What we do know about Easter Sunday
is put best by Pastor John McLeod.
‘Jesus was not crucified in
a cathedral between two candles, but
on a cross between two thieves; at
a crossroad so cosmopolitan that the
had to write his title in [three languages]…at
the kind of place where cynics talk
smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers
gamble. Because that’s where
he died. And that’s what he
died about. And it is where Christians
ought to be and that is what Christians
should be about.’
Keeping our Christianity confined
to a church is like expecting that
sitting in a garage will turn you
into a car. Jesus died and rose again
in the centre of the world. Shouldn’t
we at least try and live this faith
in the heart of the world for Easters’
sake?
Fr Tom Cox
Bible Study
Shared Scripture reading and prayer
in the Carmelite Retreat Centre, Derry
on Tuesday, 10th April at 8 pm [conducted
by Fr Sean Conlon OCD]. All welcome
to attend.
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