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15th November 2009
33rd
Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Jesus said to
his disciples: 'Heaven
and earth will pass away, but my
words will not pass away'.
Every now and again someone spreads
the rumour of the end of the world.
So far it hasn't taken place! We
have something far more important
than the end of the world to make
our preoccupation, namely the wonderful
presence of Christ with us and in
us and around us. As followers of
Jesus we have a great responsibility
to the world we live in to show
him powerfully in the way we live
as his people in spite of all the
scandals and all the upheaval in
the Church today. We do this by
the joy of God's presence and love
shining out through us. And we do
it by the quality of life we develop
in our homes and in our parish community,
a quality that is characterised
by kindness, gentleness, care, enthusiasm,
peace, hope, forgiveness.
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
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Preserve
me, God, I take refuge in you.
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Sunday 15th
November 2009
33rd Sunday
in Ordinary Time.
First Reading
Daniel 12: 1-3
A prophecy about the final Judgement.
Second Reading
Hebrews 10: 11-14.18
Christ has offered one single sacrifice
for sins and
taken his place at the right hand
of God.
Gospel Mark
13: 24-32
The coming of Christ in glory.
MASS
TIMES
Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, 10
am;
Thursday, 8 pm
[Anniversary Mass of Patrick McLaughlin,
Gleneely];
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
Joseph Ruddy, Dunross
Bernadette
Reynolds [nee McGrory]
died peacefully in Bray and her
funeral Mass and burial took place
in St Mary’s, Bocan. Bernadette
enjoyed a long and happy business
and family life. Our deepest sympathy
to her son John, daughter-in-law
Sinead and grandsons, Sean and Bearach;
her nephews and nieces and wider
family circle. May her soul rest
in peace.
Weekly
Offering: €1,532; Development
Collection €960.
Thank
you for your generosity.
Self Help International,
Africa will take up their Church Gate
Collection next weekend, 22st/22nd
November. Please support this worthy
cause.
Whist
1st:
Betty Houten, Culdaff
2nd: Michael O’Donnell,
Carn
3rd: John Duffy,
Derry
Tickets
Betty Houten, Joanie McLaughlin, Mary
B McLaughlin, Patricia Harkin.
Other Winners
James McConalogue, Mary B McLaughlin,
John Doherty, Joaie McLaughlin, Seamus
Harkin, Gerard Doherty.
Whist Every Friday at 8.45 pm
Snowball - €160 for 177 or better
Youth
Club Rota
Friday, 20th November:
Denise Cunningham, Bridget McLaughlin,
Greta Doherty, Breda
Kelly.
How important
is your health? Come
along to an information evening in
the Malin Hotel n Tuesday, 17th November
at 8 pm and hear Dr Richard Williams
give a talk. Admission is €5
and includes tea and scones.
Parent and
Toddler Group
Parent & Toddler Group in Bocan
Hall every Wednesday morning from
10.30 am – 12noon. If anyone
would like to donate unwanted toys
or books, please contact Helen (0879272053),
Norah (0876839714) or Sandra (0879572603)
or leave them in either Culdaff or
Gleneely School.
Good As New
Shop
Bocan Community Playgroup have now
opened the Good as New Shop at Pound
Street, Carndonagh. Any donations
of clothes, toys etc would be greatly
appreciated.
Quiz
There will be a quiz in McGuiness’
Bar, Culdaff on Fri 27th Nov at 10pm
in aid of the Bocan Parent and Toddler
Group. Everyone welcome.
Glasgow Celtic
Football Trips
1-Day trip to Celtic Park on Saturday,
5th December, Celtic v Aberdeen, tickets
for Jock Stein lower stand. - or how
about the perfect Christmas gift,
a ticket to Celtic park on 16th January
– cost includes transport and
pick-ups throughout Inishowen. Contact
086 259 8271.
The Cancer
Support Group at Milltown house Carndonagh,
will not have a meeting in December,
the group resumes Jan 11, 2010 at
7.30 pm in Milltown House, Carndonagh.
All welcome
Guitar
Classes in The Cairn
Adults: Tuesday at 8pm
Children: Wednesday at 7pm
Children's Morning (Music, Drama and
Quiz) every Saturday morning from
11-1pm
Enquiries Tel: 074 9381104
Serenity House,
Moville are organising a
shopping trip to Belfast on Thursday
10 December which will include a meal.
For further information or to book
a place contact Serenity House on
9382945.
A training course on Depression
will take place in Serenity
House, Moville in February 2010. Anyone
interested please contact Serenity
House on 9382945 for further information.
The Moville Presbyterian Church
is holding a music and gospel concert
on Sunday 22 November 09 at 7.30pm
in aid of hall funds. All music and
singers are local. Supper shall be
served and everyone is welcome.
Inishowen Methodist Churches
are holding a Cake and Craft sale
in the Methodist Hall, Moville on
Saturday 21 November 09 from 11am
to 4pm. Teas will be served. Crafts
include baskets, jewellery, hand painted
items, handbags, Avon etc. All are
welcome.
INISHOWEN
GARDENING CLUB next talk
will take place on Monday 23 November
in Wesley Hall, Bridge Street, Carndonagh
at 8.00pm The speaker this month is
Brendan Little and the topic is "How
to get Wildlife into your garden"
The AGM will also take place. All
welcome to attend.
DONEGAL ACTION
FOR CANCER CARE
The COUNTY MEETING
will be hosted by the North Inishowen
Branch this month. It will be held in
McClure's Bridge Street, Carndonagh at
8pm on Thursday 26 November. All branch
members are requested to attend.
Mass for deceased
young people in the Holy
Family Church, Ballymagroarty on Sunday
15th November at 3 pm. It is an opportunity
for family and friends to come together
in a spirit of prayer and remembrance.
Memorial Concert
in memory of the late Patrick McLaughlin,
Gleneely, takes place on Thursday,
26th November in the Malin Hotel at
8 pm. Tickets are available from Dominic
McDaid or Breege Kearney. A great
night’s entertainment is assured
and all proceeds are for charity.
The
Deep End – Beyond the Senses
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
There are only two possibilities:
human life has meaning or it hasn’t.
It has direction powered by purpose,
or else it’s like a fungus,
free-floating on a speck of cosmic
dust going nowhere fast. But if there
is nothing beyond what we see, touch,
taste, hear and smell from where comes
the heart’s deep yearning for
things beyond the senses? Francis
Thompson expresses that yearning in
his poem, In No Strange Land :
O world invisible,
we view thee
O world intangible, we touch thee
O world unknowable, we know thee
Inapprehensible,
we clutch thee!’
That clutching is for that which
gives life its mystery, for that which
shatters the daily deceit of seemingly
ordinary things to grace us with a
glimpse of their grandeur. It's palpable
in music that captivates the soul,
in poetry that punctuates the mundane
with rhythm from another zone. It’s
in art that sates the eye with beauty
transcending time. It’s in people
when they love, and even when they
don’t.
When we’re n touch with mystery
today’s First Reading [Dan 12:1-13]
will not seem as bizarre as it might
otherwise appear. It’s style
won’t take from its substance.
Resurrection of the dead is clearly
central to God’s plan for his
creation.
We need to focus on resurrection else
death will have the final say. And
the spot for that focus is life’s
ordinary things. Again Francis Thompson:
‘Not where
the wheeling systems darken
And our benumbed conceiving soars
The drift of pinions, would we hearken
Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.’
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