| Sunday
12th April 2009
Easter
Sunday 2009
We
rejoice and are glad
"Now
we are those witnesses." People
today are very reluctant to get involved
with things in the community and in
society, especially on a voluntary
basis. And yet our following of Christ
is all about getting involved and
not counting the cost. We have just
come through the journey that Christ
travelled in his passion and death,
the price of our salvation. Our responsibility
is to bring the fruits of that to
our world by bringing joy, peace,
healing, gladness, freedom, justice
and so on, beginning with those with
whom we live and spreading out to
those with whom we worship, and beyond.
Every aspect of human living needs
this more now than ever as we witness
a breakdown of marriage and family
life; growing violence in society;
increasing isolation of people in
every community. Now is the time to
live our Christian faith.
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
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My
God, my God, why have you forsaken
me?
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Easter Sunday
~ The Resurrection of the Lord
Sunday, 12th
April 2009
First Reading
Acts of the Apostles 10: 34, 37-43
We have eaten and drunk with him after
his resurrection.
Second Reading
Colossians 3: 1-4
You must look for the things that
are in heaven, where Christ is.
Gospel John
20: 1-9
He must rise from the dead.
MASS
TIMES
Monday:
Requiem Mass for
Terence McCullagh,
11 am.
Wedding Mass
Monday at 1 pm
No Mass on
Tuesday or Wednesday.
Thursday,
8 pm [Anniversary Mass of Dan McCauley,
Moneydarragh]
Friday,
10 am [Anniversary Mass of Jim Doherty,
Culdaff];
Saturday,
10 am.
Saturday,
Vigil, 8 pm;
Sunday,
8.30 am & 11 am.
Confessions
Saturday: 7.30 pm—7.45 pm.
Anniversary
Mass
Sunday, 11 am: John Doherty, Ballyharry
Next Weekend:
Saturday Vigil Mass: Willie Joe Ruddy
Sunday 11 am: Phil Doherty, Gleneely.
Weekly
Offering: €1,620; Development
Collection: €1,010.
Thank
you for your generosity.
All Trocaire boxes
should be returned by next weekend.
They can be left in the box provided
in the Church.
Donegal Diabetic Association
The Association wish to acknowledge
the receipt of €438.48 which
was donated in lieu of flowers for
the funeral of the late Patrick McLaughlin,
Gleneely.
The Resurrection
The gospels do
not explain the resurrection; the
resurrection explains the gospels.
Belief in the resurrection is not
an appendage to the Christian faith;
it is the Christian faith.
J.S. Whale
Bocan
Community Playgroup
A Fun Day is being
organised for today, Easter
Sunday. We look forward
to seeing you there.
Whist on Friday
night
at 8.45 pm . Snowball €90
for 184 or more
YOGA CLASSES
– Monday, @ 7.30pm or Tuesday
@ 10am in Ballybrack Clubhouse, Greencastle.
Tuesday, MEN ONLY YOGA-
Quigley’s Point Comm Centre
@ 7.30pm.
Wednesday Carrowmenagh Comm Centre
@ 7.30 and Thursday, Quigley’s
Point Comm Centre, 6.30 and 8pm. For
more info or to enroll in any of these
classes please call Lyn Crumlish on
9367983 or 087 3287194.
Millennium
Forum Derry
Forthcoming Shows: 22-25 April –
Murder with Love, a thriller starring
Leslie Grantham [of Eastender’s
fame].
9th-13 June: Roald Dahl’s The
BFG
Serenity
House
Deposits
are due in the week beginning 20 April
for the Serenity House six day trip
to Tullamore on 17 May. 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.
Serenity
House, Moville are holding
an evening of dancing in Caiseal Mara
Hotel, Moville on Friday 17 April
from 9pm to 12 midnight, music by
Ed Sweeney. Raffle and spot prizes
galore, everyone welcome and admission
5 euro.
Chiropodist
Deirdre Britton will be in attendance
at Serenity House on the first Friday
of the month, 1 May at 9.30am Appointments
only. If you wish to make an appointment
to attend the chiropodist contact
0860666538 or 074 9360363.
Note change
of date. Serenity House Active
Retirement meeting will take place
in Serenity House, Moville on Wednesday
22 April at 7.30pm. Guest speaker
for the evening will be Dermot Curran,
from the Citizen’s Advise Bureau.
The
Deep End – Not Seeing is Believing
Why fast-forward Jesus’ suffering
and is seeing really believing? Well,
in the case of the ‘other disciple’
in today’s Gospel reading [John
20:1-9] it’s what he doesn’t
see that convinces him: Jesus’
corpse. He doesn’t see the resurrection.
What he does see is the results of
it in his new depth of faith in Jesus
as the Risen Christ, and later in
the formation of Christian communities
that the Resurrection brings about.
This is the two-edged sword of God’s
word at work – one edge being
the positive, and the other the negative.
The seeing, and the not seeing. The
seeing something new in ourselves
or in others, which wasn’t there
before, or at least in the same way
or to the same degree; something that
indicates growth, that points to the
Spirit at work within us.
The Spirit that transformed Jesus
of Nazareth to the Risen Christ is
the same Spirit at work within us
individually and collectively. It
is the Spirit that gives new life.
When we open ourselves to the Spirit’s
influence we too are transformed.
Gone is the old self with its pride
and selfishness, with its anger and
resentment, with its backbiting and
constant criticising, and with its
jealousies and lusts.
Let us hurry to peek inside the sepulchre
of our old self and surprise ourselves
by what we do not see there. Then
let us fall on our knees in gratitude
to God for what he has done, in spite
of ourselves.
Jesus lives! We are living proof of
that – often more than we realise,
or dare hope to be.
Fr Tom
Cahill, SVD
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