| Sunday
9th August 2009
19th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said to
the crowd: ‘I am the
bread of life. And the bread that
I shall give is my flesh for the
life of the world’.
By far the most extraordinary gift
that God has given to his people
is the Eucharist. In it we are invited
constantly to receive the Body and
Blood of Christ as our nourishment
for the journey of life. In it we
celebrate the salvation of the world
and renew that salvation every time
we celebrate it. This week is a
time to reflect on our appreciation
of this wonderful gift and renew
our enthusiasm for it. Because it
is so accessible we can get used
to it and take it for granted and
we can lose the joy of our celebration.
In the Eucharist God speaks most
clearly of the extent of his love
and how special each of us is to
him. To live as a people of the
Eucharist we need also speak clearly
of our love for one another in our
homes and in our parish community.
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
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Taste
and see that the Lord is good.
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Sunday, 9th
August 2009.
19th Sunday
in Ordinary Time
First Reading
Kings 19:4-8
Fed by an angel, a broken and dispirited
Elijah is able to walk all the way
to the mountain of God.
Second Reading
Ephesians 3:30-5:2
The Ephesians are urged to walk in
the way of love and live up to their
calling.
Gospel John
6:41-51
Jesus is the new manna from heaven.
Those who eat this food will live
for ever.
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
Next Week
Anniversary Mass
Sunday 11 am: Rosanna Faulkiner, Culdaff
11 am: Joe McCaul
Weekly Offering: €1,620;
Development Collection, €1,000.
Thank you for your generosity.
All the sick of the
parish will be attended on Wednesday
& Thursday at the usual times.
Good-As-New
Shop
The Shop will open
at Margaret
the Painter’s premises in Carn
next Monday, 17th August. If you
have any unwanted clothes,
books or ornaments etc then contact
Angela
on 0879028930.
Whist
Congratulations to John Duffy, Derry
on winning the Snowball
2nd: Teresa McEleney,
Culdaff
3rd: Vera Deeny,
Terrawee
Tickets
– Ellen Ann Lafferty, Seamus
Harkin, Jon Duffy, Annie McBride &
James McConalogue.
Other winners –
Mary B McLaughlin, Carrie McLaughlin,
Seamus Harkin, Neil McCallion, Therese
& Anthony McLaughlin.
Whist every Friday
at 8.45 pm
Snowball - €30 for 190 or better
Serenity
House, Moville
The organisers of the recent Bar-B-Q
held at Shroove beach wish to thank
all who supported the event.
A total to date of 2160 euro was raised
of which 1000 euro has been donated
to the Jack and Jill Foundation. Many
thanks to all who contributed in any
way, and a good day was had by all.
A trip is being organized
to the Lammas Fair, Ballycastle on
the Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 August
For further details and bookings telephone
9382116 or 9382619 or 0872799269.
Afternoon tea and
cake sale will be held in the Methodist
Hall on Monday 3 August from 3pm to
6pm. All are welcome.
Greencastle Swim
week will commence on Monday 10 August.
Registration will take place at 10am.
Contact Mary on 9382515, Geraldine
on 9385082 or Sharon on 938102 for
further information.
The Annual Blessing
of the Fleet will be held on Friday
7 August at 3pm on the Pier
Poverty
The poor and the weak
have revealed to me the great secret
of Jesus.
If you wish to follow
him you must not try to climb the
ladder of success and power, becoming
more and more important. Instead,
you must walk down the ladder, to
meet and walk with people who are
broken and in pain. The light is there,
shining in the darkness, in the darkness
of their poverty.
The poor with who you are called to
share your life and perhaps the sick
and the old; people out of work
Young people caught up in the world
of drugs, people angry because they
were terribly hurt when they were
young, people with disabilities or
sick with AIDS, or just our of prison;
people in slums or ghettos, people
in far-off lands where there is much
hunger and suffering, people who are
oppressed because of the colour of
their skin, people who are lonely
in overcrowded cities, people in pain.
Jean Vanier
The next Engaged
Encounter weekend is taking
place in the Thornhill Centre, Derry
on 12th-13th September. This
is a non-residential, two-day weekend
for engaged couples and we have some
places remaining.
Accommodation can be arranged through
direct contact with the centre. (Thornhill:
028 7135 1233) The weekend, which
is organised /presented by Marriage
Encounter Ireland, has received the
approval of Bishop Hegarty of the
Derry Diocese, and is based on the
teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic
Church.
Should you have any queries regarding
this, please do not hesitate to contact
us at the above email, or telephone
028 276 38512.
The
Deep End: - Difficult World
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
Today we have another strange reading
from Paul [Eph 4:30-5-2]. He warns
the Ephesians not ‘to grieve
the Holy Spirit of God’ by bitterness,
wrath, anger, wrangling, slander and
malice. Instead they should be kind,
tender-hearted, and forgiving. That’s
fine.
But then he describes Christ’s
giving himself u for us, i.e., surrendering
to death, as ‘a fragrant offering
and sacrifice to God’. I find
it difficult to grasp that Paul should
consider the Spirit upset by human
malice yet the Father pleased by his
Son’s death in facing up to
that malice. Why does malice aggrieve
the Holy Spirit if not because of
the damage it does to both victim
and perpetrator? Why then does the
suffering it inflicts on God’s
Son not aggrieve that Spirit too?
At least, if it does, Paul doesn’t
say so.
Reading Paul one way gives the impression
that the Father was pleased with both
the suffering and the love that enabled
Jesus to face his suffering and death.
Reading him another way gives the
impression, intended or not, that
the Father wanted his Son to suffer
on our behalf – hence the fragrance
of the sacrifice. However, this seriously
compromises God’s compassionate
nature as revealed in the parable
of the prodigal son. Then reading
Paul a third way gives the impression
that the fragrance is in Paul’s
nostrils not the Father’s. If
true, this simplifies matters. It’s
Paul’s view of Jesus’
suffering and death, not God’s.
Scripture at times
can be really difficult to understand,
and the word of God it contains is
difficult to hear.
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