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;
This Week’s
Anniversary Mass:
Saturday Vigil Mass 8 pm: Rose McLaughlin,
Gleneely.
Next Week’s
Anniversaries
Saturday Vigil 8 pm: Thomas McLaughlin,
Cashel
Sunday 11 am: Denis Doherty, Leitrim.
Weekly
Offering: €1,505; Development
Collection, €800. Thank you
for your generosity.
Whist
Whist resumes on Friday 15th January
at 8.45 pm
Snowball - €70 for 186 or better
All the
sick of the
parish will be
attended on Wednesday
& Thursday at the
usual times.
Youth Club
Rota – 15th January
2010 Jimmy McLaughlin, Ilka McDermott,
Eilish Bell, Cathy Doherty
Bocan Playschool
will re-open on Monday 11th January
2010 and we are delighted to announce
that we have moved into our new
premises.
We are now in a
position to extend our services.
Please feel free to contact us if
you wish to express an interest
in having your child enrolled with
us or if you have any further queries.
Tel: 087 2921973.
The Bocan Community
Playgroup fundraising committee
would like to thank anyone who helped
them with the Good As New Shop in
November and December. The Total
raised was €3777 Euro. A special
thanks to all the parents who helped
in the shop and to all who donated
clothes and toys etc.
The Parent and Toddler
Group will re-open this
Wednesday 13th Jan 2010 in Bocan
Hall at 10.30am. Everyone welcome.
The
Cairn, Greencastle
Guitar lessons
every Wednesday evening. Beginners
at 7pm.
Others 8pm
Children's Drama and Music
workshop every
Saturday morning
from 11-1pm
Young Teens
Music and Drama starting
soon.
If interested telephone
9381104
Inishowen
Tourism are currently compiling
a calendar of events for 2010. Anyone
interested in having their event
listed free of charge contact 074
9374933 or email details to: info@visitinishowen.com
Bocan Defibrillator
Our AGM will take place on Tuesday
27th January at 9 pm. It is imperative
that all members attend. If unable
to attend please call P.J. on 087
270 9077.
Culdaff
Active Retirement Club
The Club will reopen on Friday,
15th January at 11.30 am. Any person
aged 55+ is welcome to join. Come
along for a cup of tea and chat,
a game of bingo, cards or dominoes
– also line dancing and carpet
bowling. See you there!
The Annual
Diocesan Mass for those
with special needs, and their families
and friends, will take place in
Saint Joseph’s Church, Galliagh,
Derry on Saturday 24th April 2010.
Bishop Lagan will celebrate the
Mass. If you have a child
who wishes to receive the Sacrament
of Confirmation or First Communion
at this Mass please contact the
Catechetical Centre on (028) 71264087
or email ddcc@derrydiocese.org
The Cancer
Support Group CSSC (Cancer
Support & Social Club) will
meet on Monday 11 January 2010 at
7.30 pm in Milltown House, Tulnaree,
Carndonagh. The group support
those who have been affected in
any way by the diagnosis of cancer,
including family, friends and carers.
Newcomers are very welcome, so,
if you know someone who has been
affected by cancer and want
to support them through this worrying
time, why not accompany them to
a meeting where they can talk
to people who are going through
the same ordeal as they are?
All sessions are confidential.
Meetings are held monthly on the
second Monday. For more information
please call Rita on 086 602 8993
or Deirdre on 0877634596.
The
Deep End – Renew not Recycle
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
According to one recycling agency
Ireland’s consumption of alcohol
over the Christmas would fill ‘29
Olympic-sized swimming pools’.
On average, adults drank 16 litres
of alcohol or 2.5 times their own
blood levels. If that’s hard
to swallow try this: the nation
gobbled 4 million boxes of chocolates;
guzzled 54 million cans and 15 million
bottles of beer, 20 million bottles
of wine; 4 million plastic bottles
and 28 million cans of soft drinks.
Households disposed of 96,500 kg
of packaging – equivalent
of an adult’s weight in cardboard
per household – and 4 million
sheets of gift-wrap paper. And that
was in 2005! Just imagine what it
must have been like every Christmas
since then.
As Christmas celebrates Jesus’
birth, how could recycling our waste
produce seem more pressing a problem
than renewing our faith in God and
our service of each other? Our feasts
are always occasions for renewal.
Today’s feast, the Baptism
of the Lord, shows this. It reminds
us of our own baptism and of what
we are committed to because of it.
We need reminding from time to time
that baptism, while it may have
come easily, does not come cheaply.
It does cost. Toda’s Gospel
Reading [Luke 3:15-16, 21-22] makes
that clear: He will baptise you
with the Holy Spirit and fire. [3:16]
So, as we begin this New Year let
us not take our baptism for granted,
or forget it. That can so easily
happen.
When the Spirit’s fire truly
burns within us, we’ll know
that it’s not for recycling
used goods but for renewing God’s
gifts.
