| Sunday
16th August 2009
20th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said to
the crowd: ‘Anyone
who eats this bread will live forever’.
To live forever is one of the longings
in every human heart. And yet death
is part of every human life. Jesus
reveals though that death is not
the end but only the beginning of
new life and he has led the way
for us through his resurrection.
And he gives us his own body and
blood to lead us into eternal life.
Through the Eucharist we are already
united with life that will last
forever, a life that we are called
on to live now through our love
for God and for one another. Eucharistic
people are meant to be people who
live life to the full, people who
radiate hope, people who are known
for their joy and gladness in being
alive, people who forgive easily
and often, people who bring peace
and happiness into the lives of
all whom they meet.
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
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Taste
and see that the Lord is good.
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20th Sunday
in Ordinary Time
First Reading
Proverbs 9: 1-6
Come and eat my bread, drink the wine
I have prepared! Leave your folly
and you will live, walk in the ways
of perception
Second Reading
Ephesians 5: 15-20
Recognise what is the will of God.
Gospel John
6: 51-58
If you do not eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink his blood, you
will not have life in you.
MASS
TIMES
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
, 10 am;
Thursday, 8 pm; Friday
10 am;
Wedding Mass
on Saturday at 1 pm.
Saturday, Vigil,
8 pm;
Sunday, 8.30 am &
11 am.
Confessions
Saturday: 7.15 pm—7.45
pm
Anniversary
Mass
Sunday 11 am: Rosanna Faulkiner,
Culdaff
Thursday, 8 pm: Month’s
Mind Mass for Packie Long,
Larrahirl
Next Saturday’s Vigil Mass,
8 pm: John Doherty
[Master] Carthage [Month’s Mind]
Weekly Offering: €1,685;
Development Collection, €1,000.
Thank you for your generosity.
The Donegal
Leprosy Fund annual Church Gate collection
raised 475 euro.
A sincere thank you to all who contributed
so generously. Donegal Leprosy Fund
money is distributed throughout the
world to assist Irish missionaries
with their work in third world countries.
Mass
Rock
A Mass will be celebrated at the Mass
Rock, Altoragh, Ballymagaraghy, on
Sunday, 23rd August at 3 pm. Everyone
welcome.
Good-As-New
Shop
The Shop will open
at Margaret the Painter’s premises
in Carn this Monday, 17th August.
Whist
1st: Vera Deeny,
Terrawee.
2nd: Ellen Ann Lafferty,
Glengad
3rd: John Duffy,
Derry
Tickets – Mary
Ellen Ruddy, Vera Deeny, Joanie McLaughlin,
John Duffy, John Doherty.
Other winners –
Patricia Harkin, John Doherty, Anthony
McLaughlin, Phyllis Lloyd & Mickey
O'Donnell.
Whist every Friday at 8.45 pm
Snowball - €40 for 189 or better
Moville
Health Centre
Cervical Smear Clinic on Tuesday 18th
August and Tuesday, 1st September
between 9.30 am – 12 pm. These
will be the last of the open clinics
where no appointment is necessary.
After these dates the Cervical Smear
Programme will move to an invitation
or recall system where all women must
be registered with Cervical Check
prior to having a smear test taken.
You can register with Cervical Check
on freephone 1800 45 45 45 or online
at www.cervical/check.ie
The grass
in the cemetery will be cut this week
– weather permitting.
Thomas
McLaughlin Memorial Cup
This year’s match will be played
in Caratra Park on Sunday, 16th August
between Culdaff and Illies. There
will be a ‘festival of football’
with an U 12 game at 1.30 pm, followed
by a reserve game between the clubs
and then a first team game to finish.
The Presentation will take place in
McGuiness’ Bar afterwards.
Ceili Classes
resume in the Wee Hall, Culdaff on
Wednesday, 2nd September. Beginners
very welcome. Dancing from 9 pm –
11 pm: admission [inc supper €3].
Medugorje
Pilgrimage
20-27 September 2009 – leaving
Knock airport. Fare: £499 stg.
Early booking is advised as places
are limited. Contact Marie Furey on
93 61625 or Pat Mullan on 048 71 301474.
JESUS
CHRIST’S DISCPLES
Dear Jesus, help me to spread your
fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my
soul with your spirit and life. Penetrate
and possess my whole being so utterly
that my life may only be a radiance
of yours. Shine through me, and so
be in me, that every soul I come in
contact with may feel your presence.
Let them look up and see no longer
me but only Jesus. Stay with me, and
then I shall begin to shine; so to
shine as to be a light to others;
the light , O Jesus, will be all from
you, none of it will be mine; it will
be you shining on others through me.
Let me praise you in the way you love
best by shining on those around me.
Let me preach you, not by words only,
but by the catching force of example,
the evident fullness of the love my
heart bears to you.
Mother
Teresa of Calcutta
Memorial Sponsored
Walk in memory of the late
Bronagh McLaughlin, Glasha, Carndonagh will
be on Sunday 30th August from Carndonagh
to Malin.
Sponsorship cards
are available from Patricia Monagle,
Priestown 086 6072780. All proceeds
go to Donegal Hospice. This is your
opportunity to help a very worthy
cause, either by getting people to
sponsor you or by sponsoring someone
who is doing the walk. Your support
is needed.
Letterkenny
IT is holding an Information Day for
prospective students on Wednesday,
19 August, from 10 am – 3 pm.
Staff will
be on hand to answer questions about
the wide range of programmes on offer.
These are designed to appeal to school
leavers, graduates, mature students
and those who are unemployed. Visitors
will also get a chance to view the
facilities for themselves. All welcome.
The
Deep End: - Cop on or Cop out
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
The message on the church bulletin
board reads: ‘Those who stand
for nothing fall for everything.’
Wisdom is knowing what to stand for
– and standing up for it. Wisdom
is putting knowledge to good use.
Today’s First Reading [Prov
9:1-6] urges us to ‘lay aside
immaturity, and live, and walk in
the way of insight’ [V 6]. Easier
said than done.
Someone who is immature is not ripe.
Growth in one or more areas of their
life slowed down or stopped completely
at some stage. It’s scary enough
that such a thing can happen, but
to make matters worse it can happen
without realising it until it’s
late in the day.
Today’s reading also tells us
to walk in the way of insight. Fine!
But how do you do that? You can’t
just decide to have an insight as
you'd have a cup of tea. You can’t
conjure one up, order one over the
Internet, or go to a shop and buy
one. No! They either come to you or
they don’t. However, maybe it’s
just one basic insight that the reading
refers to. Once you’ve had that
one others follow of their own accord
as life presents them. But without
the basic one you miss the others.
And what is more basic than to realise
that life has purpose, and consequences
that extend beyond death. Once that
sinks in we begin to see things differently.
Wisdom has built her house, set her
pillars, and prepared a meal for those
who enter. so let’s put immaturity
aside and live. Let’s cop on
not cop out.
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