| Sunday
14th June 2009
The
Body & Blood of Christ
"Take
this and eat", Jesus
said, "This is my body.
This is my blood, the blood of the
covenant which is to be poured out
for many." What an extraordinary
love Christ has for us that led him
to give us this wonderful sacrament
through which he is our food and drink.
And yet we become so used to the knowledge
of it that we can even see it as a
burden. But we do the same with our
love for one another. In marriage
and family life many people feel burdened
by the demands of love. In parish
life we can settle for a minimum.
This week is a very special time to
renew the sense of awe that should
be ours when we think of the extent
of God's love for us and the privilege
of our love for one another. It is
a week to cry out: "My Lord,
and my God" and to say again
to each other "I love
you".
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
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The
cup of salvation I will raise;
I will call on the Lord’s
name.
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Sunday 14th
June 2009
The Body &
Blood of Christ
First Reading
Exodus 24: 3-8
This is the blood of the Covenant
that the Lord has made with you.
Second Reading
Hebrews 9: 11-15
The blood of Christ can purify our
inner self from dead actions.
Gospel Mark
14: 12-16, 22-26
Jesus took some bread said the blessing
broke it and gave it to them: ‘Take
it this is my body’. He took
the cup; he said to them, ‘This
is my blood’.
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MASS
TIMES
Monday, 10 am; No
Mass on Tuesday; Wednesday
& Thursday, 10 am;
Friday, Feast
of the Sacred Heart, 8 pm;
Saturday, 10 am.
Wedding Mass on
Friday at 1 pm.
Saturday,
Vigil, 8 pm;
Sunday,
8.30 am & 11 am.
Confessions
Saturday: 7.15 pm—7.45 pm
Weekly Offering: €1,440; Development
Collection: €750. Thank you for
your generosity.
Special Collection this weekend
for the Eucharistic Congress in 2012;
Peter’s
Pence Collection will be taken up
next weekend along with Priests Collection–
No Development Collection envelope
next week.
Bocan Youth Club
Annual Church-Gate Collection will
be taken up on the weekend of 11th
/12th July.
Pioneer
Association
Presentation of Gold,
Silver and Full Pioneer
Pins at Feast of Sacred Heart Mass
on Friday at 8 pm. Anyone qualifying
for pins should contact Peggy on 9279304
or Angela on 9379303 by Monday, 15th
June. Also, Pioneer Outing to Knock
on Sunday, 19th July: Fare –
[including 2 meals] €50. to book
call Tommy on 9382709.
Bocan
Community Playgroup
Information Evening
An information meeting will be held
in Bocan Community Playgroup on Thursday
18th June at 9 pm for parents of children
who will be attending the Playgroup
in September 2009.
Open Day
In the Playgroup on Friday, 19th June
from 9.30 am – 12 noon. All
parents and children are welcome.
Whist
1st Collette Carlin,
Castlefin
2nd Mary B McLaughlin
3rd Fr McGonagle,
Bocan
Tickets
– Phyllis Lloyd, James McConalogue,
Seamus Harkin & Annie McColgan.
Other winners –
Richard Kelly, Annie McColgan, James
McConalogue, Margaret McGilloway,
Catherine McGilloway, Gretta Coyle.
Whist
every Friday at 8.45 pm
Snowball - €60 for 187 or better
Serenity House,
Moville are organizing a day trip
to the Glens of Antrim and
the Giants Causeway on 7 July and
6 day trip to Westport in September.
For further information contact Serenity
House on 9382945. Seats will be allocated
on a first come, first served basis,
so book early to avoid disappointment.
The Job Club
Centre will be starting new
Job-seeking training programmes in
Serenity House, Moville on Wednesday
17 June at 10.30pm.
Chiropodist
Deirdre Britton will be in
attendance at Serenity House on the
last Friday of the month, 26 June
at 9.30am Appointments only. If you
wish to make an appointment to attend
the chiropodist contact 0860666538
or 074 9360363.
Serenity House, Moville
are holding an evening of
dancing in Caiseal Mara Hotel,
Moville on Friday 26 June from 9pm
to 12 midnight, music by Ed Sweeney.
Raffle and spot prizes galore. Everyone
welcome and admission 5 euro.
A one day
retreat for Senior Citizens and their
friends will take place at
the Carmelite Retreat Centre,Termonbacca,
Derry on Wednesday 1st July for those
from Derry and Donegal. Registration
from 10.30 a.m. finishing around 5.00
p.m. Cost £15stg or €18
Euro includes a four course lunch.
Payment at the Centre on the day.
To book Tel: Termonbacca Derry 71262512
during office hours only.
The Cancer
Support & Social Club for
Inishowen people based in Milltown
House Carndonagh, will not meet during
the summer. We welcome everyone
back on 14 September 2009.
In the meantime we wish all our members
a healthy and sunny summer.
The Pope’s
Children – BBC are
making a documentary about Pope John
Paul’s visit to Ireland in 1979.
If you have any interesting memories
or photos then contact BBC Belfast
on 04890 338735.
A big thank you to
the organisers and supporters of last
weekend’s Car Boot Sale –
it was a very successful venture and
it raised €740 for The Development
Fund.
The
Deep End – Not à la Carte
[Fr Tom Cahill]
Johnny got the message early in life.
When asked by his religion teacher
what he thought of god he replied
with a gravity beyond his young years,
‘I bet it’s very hard
for him to love all of everybody in
the whole world. There are only four
people in our family and I can never
do it.’ Out of the mouth of
babes!
In today’s First Reading from
the book of Exodus[24:3-8] the word
‘all’ is used repeatedly.
In brief: all the people promise obedience
to all the words of the Lord. There’s
no half measure, no à la carte
approach to God’s commands.
There wasn’t then, and there
isn’t now.
Today we celebrate the Feast of The
Body and Blood of Christ, or Corpus
Christi as it’s more popularly
known. The Eucharist that Christ gave
us is a meal open to all people who
have committed themselves in faith
to Jesus as Saviour.
The Eucharist, while it needs to be
celebrated in a manner that expresses
life, joy and community, is not an
entertainment event. It’s joyful
yet serious, lively yet dignified
and, in a sense, ‘ordinary’
yet holy.
What we need to realise too, however,
is that it also requires effort on
our part to prepare for it and further
effort to celebrate it well. That's
where the ‘all’ comes
in again. We can’t prepare for
the Eucharist with only part of our
life. Following Jesus is a total life-long
commitment. How could anyone celebrate
Mass on a Sunday, having lived like
a Pagan on Saturday?
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