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Mary’s Church Bocan
19th
October 2008
29th
Sunday in Ord. Time.
Hope
and Love
The Gospel is a life
changing communication that gives
hope. Without Christ, humanity is
without hope because it is without
God. God is the great hope that sustains
the whole of life. Paul experienced
and understood that redemption and
mission are the work of God and his
love. The love of God for us prods
us to missionary activity. Evangelisers
must drink from the original source,
which is Jesus Christ. It is from
his pierced heart that the love of
God flows. Only from this source can
care, tenderness, compassion, hospitality,
availability and interest in people’s
problems be drawn.
(Pope
Benedict XVI for Mission Sunday 2008)
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Mass Times
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
& Saturday, 10 am.
Saturday, Vigil, 8
pm;
Sunday, 8.30 am &
11 am.
Confessions
Saturday, 7.15 pm—7.45 pm.
Give
to God what belongs to God.
Jesus said: "Give
back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar
- and to God what belongs to God."
One of the biggest mistakes we make
as human beings is to think that what
we have belongs to us! The more wonderful
truth is that all we have is a gift
from God who loves us and who wants
us to live in the freedom of that
love. The best way of human living
is to treasure everything in life
rather than try to possess it; to
count our blessings rather than moan
about what we don't have. And the
greatest treasure of all is each other.
The quality of our love for one another
in marriage and family life is a measure
and major part of our worship of God.
That love needs to be such that it
will radiate out and include those
with whom we worship at the Eucharist
and so we build a parish to the glory
of God.
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
Weekly Offering:
€1,683 Development Collection,
€1,000; Good-as-new shop, €850.
Thank you for your generosity.
N.B
Mission Sunday Collection will be
taken up next weekend - No Development
Collection next week.
Station Mass
[Bocan, Larraghirrell etc] In the
home of Tim and Maria Finnegan, Bocan
on Saturday, 25th October at 10.30
am
Colmcille
Pilgrimages
Cruise of the Lands of the Bible,
including Egypt, Holy Land, Turkey
& Greece from March 5th –
14th 2009. Cost per person sharing
£1,095. more details from Fr
Paddy O’Kane on 00447732468511
or email paddyokane@tiscali.co.uk
Whist
1st: Phyllis Lloyd, Gleneely
2nd : Ernie McLucas, Carn;
3rd: Mickey Doherty, Carn.
Tickets Phyllis Monagle,
Carn; Darragh McLaughlin, Culdaff;
Fr McGonagle, Bocan; Seamus Harkin,
Gleneely.
Other Winners
Sarah McDermott, Seamus Coyle, Catherine
McGilloway, Seamus Harkin.
Whist every Friday night at 8.45 pm
in Bocan Hall. Snowball €120
for 181or more.
Tour de Culdaff
The sponsored cycle in aid of St Boden’s
N.S. takes place next Sunday. Registration
is at 9 am and the Cycle commences
at 10 am. So ‘on you bikes’
for a good cause.
Serenity
House
Active Retirement
– Music evening in McNamara’s
Hotel on Wednesday, 22 October from
9 pm – 11 pm. Music by Dominick
McDaid. Admission: €5 and everyone
is welcome.
Job Club Centre
at Inishowen Development New Job-Seeking
Programmes in your area. If you want
to receive free assistance with you
job seeking efforts in a friendly
and supportive environment then contact
Aisling on 9361376.
Carmelite
Retreat Centre – Mass
of the Sick with Eucharistic Blessing
on Tuesday, 21st October at 8 pm.
All are welcome to attend.
Sr. Josephine
Walsh Weekend Retreat –
Friday, 24th October – Sunday
26th October. This weekend has an
emphasis on forgiving, healing and
making a new start. More details from
04871262512 [during office hours].
Scoil Mhuire
Gleneely – Silver Circle Results
Week 1:- 1st Veronica
Carlin; 2nd:-Owen Kelly; 3rd:- Sadie
McLaughlin.
Week 2:-
1st:- Catherine McGeoghegan; 2nd :-
Jackie McLaughlin;
3rd:- Nicola Darnell.
Week 3:-
1st:- Caitlin Molloy; 2nd:- Kathleen
Doherty; 3rd:- Nathan McLaughlin.
The
Deep End – Go and Tell!
In a youthful, uppity
manner many years ago I remarked at
an inter-faith dialogue in Selly Oaks,
Birmingham, England, that Jesus wasn’t
crucified because he dialogued. That
remark – no less incisive for
being rather obvious- didn’t
go down well. While useful as a getting-
to- know –you exercise, thereby
improving relations between different
faith traditions, dialogue is not
the preferred option for Christian
missionary activity. It may be a necessary
first step in a missionary approach,
but it can hardly be considered the
only or the final one. Were Jesus
sending out his disciples on mission
today would he tell them to dialogue
instead of teach? Personally, I doubt
it. But then I don’t have a
hotline to God.
Missionaries are people called to
tell. They tell people basically two
things: God has created them for a
purpose; and, by following Jesus,
they fulfil that purpose most assuredly.
In telling this good news, missionaries
do more than just talk. They present
truth in various ways but always with
humility; they meet weakness with
understanding, and they confront evil
with firmness. They respect diversity;
they promote growth both individually
and collectively; and, they bear witness
to what they say.
Put that way it doesn’t really
matter where you are: at home, or
away, at work, or at play. If you
defend truth, allow for weakness,
oppose evil, and live honestly –
and do so because you love God, then
you are a missionary.
Fr Tom
Cahill SVD
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