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St
Mary’s Church Bocan - 20th
January 2008—No 8
2nd
Sunday In Ordinary Time
World Day of Migrants
and Refugees
Prayer for
Refugees and Exiles
Lord, no one is a stranger to you
and no one is ever
far from your loving care.
In your kindness watch over
refugees and exiles,
those separated from their loved ones,
young people who are lost,
and those who have left
or run away from home.
Bring them back safely
to the place where they long to be
and help us always
to show your kindness
to strangers and those in need.
Parish Missal: Readings (Year
A) p 60 & Proper p 1008
First Reading
Isaiah 49: 3, 5-6
The prophet Isaiah reminds us that
the Messiah will bring salvation to
the nations..
Second Reading
Corinthians 1: 1-3
St Paul notes the graces given to
the Christian community at Corinth.
Gospel John
1: 29-34
John the Baptist introduces his cousin,
Jesus, the Lamb of God.
Responsorial
Psalm
Here I am Lord! I come to do your
will.
Money Matters:
Weekly Offering, €1,505;
Development Collection, €1,002.
Thank you for your generosity.
Cardinal’s
Visit
His Eminence Sean Cardinal Brady will
be making his first official visit
to the Diocese on Wednesday, 23rd
January & Thursday, 24th January
2008. He will be the Principal Concelebrant
at Mass in St Eugene’s Cathedral
on the morning of the 24th January
at 10 am Mass to which you are all
welcome. Cardinal Brady will be available
after the Mass to meet and greet those
who come along.
Youth Club
Rota - Friday, 25th January:
Martina Fitzpatrick, Jimmy McLaughlin,
Carmel Lynch, Wendy Smith.
N.B. The Youth Club
AGM will take place on 30th January.
Whist
Winners
1st Dillon Doherty,
Gleneely
2nd John Duffy, Derry.
3rd James McLaughlin,
Cashel & Mary Ellen Ruddy, Culdaff
Draw Winners: James
McConalogue, Cashel, Paddy McLaughlin,
Gleneely, Hannah McLaughlin, Gleneely.
Other Winners: Ellen
Anne Lafferty, Glengad, Patricia Harkin,
Culdaff, Pat O’Brien, Culdaff,
Eddie Duffy, Gleneely
The Whist is on every Friday night
at 8.45 pm. Snowball this week: €50
for a score of 186 or better - Everyone
welcome
Ladies Badminton
The Ladies Badminton resumes on Thursday
night at 9 pm in Bocan Hall. Everyone
welcome.
Carmelite
Retreat Centre
Mass of the
Sick with Eucharistic Blessing on
Tuesday, 22nd January at 8pm in The
Carmelite Retreat Centre, Derry. All
are welcome to attend.
Sr. Josephine
Walsh Weekend Retreat from
Friday, 1st February – Sunday,
3rd February. More details from 048
71262512 [office hours].
Notice
Board
Yoga:
In Bocan Hall every Wednesday:- Children’s
Yoga at 4 pm; Adults: 7 pm. Come along
and ‘De-Stress’.
Inishowen
Gardening Club : The Gardening
Club will meet on Monday, 28th January
in Wesley Hall, Carndonagh at 8 pm.
Guest Speaker: Sean O’Gaothain
[head gardener at Glenveagh National
Park] who will present “Gardens
in Donegal”. Everyone welcome.
Blood Donations:
The Blood Transfusion Service will
be in Carndonagh Community school
on Wednesday, 23rd January from 3
pm – 4.45 pm & 7 pm –
9.30 pm; Thursday, 24th January from
2pm – 4.45 pm & 7 pm –
9 pm. New donors are urgently needed
so please come along and bring a friend.
North Inishowen
Branch of Cancer Care: Meet
on Tuesday, 22nd January at 7.30 pm
in Wesley Hall, Carndonagh. The public
representatives have been invited.
All welcome to attend as your support
would be welcome.
Serenity House
Chiropodist:
Deirdre Britton will be in
Serenity House on Friday, 26th January
from 9.30 am. Appointments to 086
0666538 / 9360363.
Active Retirement
Group A 5-day trip to Wexford on the
25th of May is being organised. For
more details contact 9382945.
Registration
for Classes in: Chess for
adults, Sage Computerised Accounts
Stages 1 and 3, Introduction to Electronics
and Computer Maintenance are now being
taken. Ring 9382945 for details.
The
Good Way
Charm:
you have it until you know it. It’s
the same with humility. Better that
others be pleased with us for having
it than we draw their attention to
it in ourselves. If it’s there,
it will out as will God’s purpose
in human affairs.
Take, for example, the reading for
the fourth Sunday of last November:
It is you who shall be shepherd of
my people Israel, you who shall be
ruler over Israel [2 Sam 5:2]. Here
we have God’s will for King
David as ruler of his people Israel.
He must act like a shepherd! Not the
first model that springs to mind nowadays
for civil power.
That same inscrutable intent is evident
in today’s gospel reading [Jn
1:29-34]. God wants his Son to be
like a lamb! How humble can you get?
God really does things in strange
ways. You want a ruler. You get a
shepherd! Someone comes on a world-changing
mission and he is to act like a lamb!
Doesn’t make sense. But then
it’s not supposed to at least
not by human reckoning.
God uses the lowly to confound the
great. He always has, and always will.
The ball is in our court. - Fr
Tom Cahill SVD
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