St
Mary’s Church Bocan, 15th
July 2007—No 32
15th
Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Responsorial
Psalm
Seek the Lord, you who are poor,
and your hearts will revive.
A soft day - Winifred M. Letts
A soft day, thank
God!
A wind from the south
With a honey'd mouth;
A scent of drenching leaves,
Briar and beech and lime,
White elderflower and thyme,
And the soaking grass smells sweet,
Crushed by my two bare feet,
While the rain drips,
Drips, drips, drips from the eaves.
A soft day, thank God!
The hills wear a shroud
Of silver cloud;
The web the spider weaves
Is a glittering net;
The woodland path is wet,
And the soaking earth smells sweet
Under my two bare feet,
And the rain drips,
Drips, drips, drips from the leaves.
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Who
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Today’s
Readings
1st Reading
: God’s laws and commandments
are to be observed. Knowledge of them
is not beyond our reach;
2nd Reading : Paul
presents a hymn in praise of Jesus
Christ;
Gospel : The true
neighbour is the one that acts with
kindness.
Money
Matters:
Weekly Offering €824
Development Collection, €1,015.
Thank you for your generosity.
A big thank you
to all those who helped with the blessing
of the graves last Sunday, especially
Danny, Daniel and George for having
the cemetery in great shape and to
Mary for her hard work. The collection
taken up on the day realised €630.
Culdaff Water
Sports Society - Fun Weekend –
13th-15th July
The Raft Race takes place today, Sunday
at 3 pm from Bunagee Pier. There will
be some side shows and live music
in the Pier. All proceeds will go
toward the RNLI in memory of Brian
Houten.
Serenity
House
Certificate in Preparatory
Studies will be commencing
in Serenity House in September. Applications
must be returned as soon as possible.
For details contact Serenity House
on 9382945 or email serenityhouse@eircom.net
Active Retirement Association
trip to Tory Island on Thursday 19th
July. The bus will leave Serenity
House at 8.30 am. if you hold a bus
pass then bring it with you. Contact
Serenity House for more details.
Moville Celtic
FC
Do you have any photos, diaries, items
of interest of teams or committees
of the past? If you have then contact
Lawrence Harkin so that they can be
displayed in the new club house.
Preached Day
Retreat [open to everyone],
Saturday,
28th July at Ards Friary
Commences 10 am:
Finishes 4pm; Cost is €30 [lunch
included]; Overnight accommodation
on Friday night with evening meal
and Retreat €53. Contact Ards
Friary on 9138909 or email info@ardsfriary.com
This Retreat focuses
on the place of Our Lady in the Scriptures
and the life of the Church. It also
draws upon the spirituality of St
Louis de Montfort’s “True
Devotion to Mary.” This was
the spirituality that guided Pope
John Paul II. It goes “to Jesus
through Mary.”
Always There
Jesus was there, when you prayed
last night,
He talked with God, about you.
Jesus was there, when you fought that
fight,
He is going to see you through.
Jesus knew when you shed those tears.
You did not weep alone,
For the burden you though too heavy
to bear,
He made his very own.
Jesus himself was touched by that
trial,
Which you could not understand.
Jesus stood by as you almost fell,
And lovingly grasped your hand.
Jesus cared when you bore that pain,
Indeed, he bore it too.
He felt each pang, and ache in your
heart,
Because of his love for you.
Jesus was grieved when you doubted
his love,
But he gave you the grace to go on.
Jesus rejoiced when you trusted him,
The only trustworthy one.
His presence shall ever be near you,
No need to be anxious or fret,
Dear wonderful Lord, he was there
all the time,
He has never forsaken you yet.
Reordering
priorities
In many ways, if you develop the knack
of looking the right way, you find
bot people and world endlessly fascinating.
The opposite is also true, if you
gain the habit of looking at it the
wrong way, then the whole world is
horrible and tedious and boring. And
that fundamentally is the battle –
to keep looking at the world in the
right way.
Both Levite and Priest
were of course good men, but for their
own reasons, while they saw the injured
man, perceived him more as a threat
to their plans that day. Broken lives
rarely shoehorn themselves into our
agenda. The Samaritan also had his
tasks in mind for that day, but he
saw the person before his personal
projects. He saw things the right
way around. The needs of the many
do not justify the ignoring of the
few. Think back, how many of your
most rewarding experiences came from
unexpected circumstances and people?
In many ways our journey is like that
of the scriptures set before people.
It is to take the law of god from
the pages [First Reading] out onto
the streets. Are we here to see through
people or to see through each other?
Tom Cox
Wise
Words
When men stop
believing in God they don’t
believe in nothing;
they believe in anything.
G K Chesterton
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