| St
Mary’s Church Bocan - 20th
July 2008
16th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Pippa’s
Morning Song
The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hill-side’s dew-pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in his heaven -
All’s right with the world!
Robert
Browning 1812-1889
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O
Lord, you are good and forgiving. |
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Sunday 20th July 2008
16th Sunday
in Ordinary Time
Parish Missal Readings
(Year 1) p 320 & Proper p 1072
First Reading
Wisdom 12: 13.16-19
The loving care of God for His people.
Second Reading
Romans 8: 26-27
The Spirit comes to help us in our
weakness.
Gospel Matthew
13: 24-43
The Kingdom of heaven is described
in parables.
Our
Merciful Judge
“Listen, anyone
who has ears.” We live in a
world of constant sound and yet we
are not all that good at listening.
Take a few moments as you read this
to listen to the sounds around you.
What do you hear? Listen to the sounds
within you. What do you hear? A lot
of the time what we hear is discordant
noise and yet what Jesus wants us
to hear is the love of God that is
all around us and within us and between
us. We will hear that sound if we
listen carefully enough with our hearts
and minds. Listen especially to the
beautiful sounds of your love for
one another in marriage and/or family
life. It is so easy to get into a
pattern of not listening in these
sacred places. Listen also to the
goodness of the people who make up
your parish so that you can become
aware of Christ who lives in them.
And listen this week to the needs
of the people around you so that you
can respond to those needs in love.
Fr. Johnny Doherty, C.Ss.R.
Weekly
Offering €1,645 Development Collection,
€1,010.
Thank
you for your generosity.
Catholic Summer
Youth Festivals - Knock, Co Mayo –
24th – 27th July. The
weekend promises to be a wonderful
weekend with guest speakers , music
& drama; prayer and plenty of
fun and games. Cost is €55 and
transport will be available. More
details from 048 71 264087 or log
on to www.knock-shrine.ie/youthministry
The
Readers List for July to December
is available in the Sacristy.
Gleneely Colts
Football Club
Under age football tournament for
U 10 & U 14 boys and for U 10
& U 14 girls. It takes place in
Glenview Park, Gleneely on Saturday,
26 July at 2 pm sharp. Closing time
for entries is 1.45 pm. Teams consist
of 5 players and 1 sub per team. Entry
fee is €2 per child and Inishowen
League Rules apply.
Come along for a great day’s
fun. All welcome.
Whist
1st – Mary
B McLaughlin.
2nd – John
Duffy
3rd – Mary
Ellen Ruddy
Tickets: Seamus Coyle,
Mary B McLaughlin & John Duffy
Other Winners: -
Mickey O'Donnell, Vera Deeny, John
Anthony McLaughlin, Annie McColgan
& Paddy McLaughlin
€35 for
189 or more. Whist every Friday night
at 8.45 pm in Bocan Hall.
Ceile Mor
- There will be a Ceile Mor
in Bocan Hall on Friday, 25th July.
Dancing is from 10 pm – 1 am
and admission is €5 [inc supper].
Music is by Martin Duggan. Come along
and have a great night’s craic.
Old Tyme Dancing for Beginners
– in the Wee Hall,
Culdaff every 2nd & 4th Thursday
from 8.30 pm – 10.30 pm [tea
& Biscuits served]. Admission
is €5.
Good Morning
Inishowen –
If you have a couple of hours to spare
and are willing to help your local
community then contact Anne on 93
21598 if you would like to volunteer.
Inishowen Men’s Helpline
- This is a free and confidential
service offering information, understanding
and empathy. Phone line open daily
[074 93 29300]. Volunteers welcome
– training will be provided.
Scoil Mhuire
- Gleneely
All past pupils of Dristernan School
at the corner and the new school are
invited to the upcoming Reunion. Proceeds
will go to school funds
Serenity
House
Trip to Westport,
21st – 27th Sept, staying at
the Castle Court Hotel. More details
from 9382945;
Art &
Craft Exhibition, 3rd &
4th August from 12 noon – 5
pm. Admission is free. Why not come
along and see what you too could achieve
under the tuition of expert tutors.
Would you
like to learn some piano keyboard
skills? Free lessons available
[Monday 11th August – Friday
15th August]. Places are limited so
if you are interested contact Mary
or Rosaleen on 9385548.
Chiropodist
– Deirdre will be in Serenity
House on Friday, 25th July. For an
appointment call 0860666538 / 9360363.
Clonmany
5 K & Juvenile 1 Mile Road Race
Friday, 8th August at 7.30 pm. Juvenile
athletes must be between 11 &
16 years of age on the day of the
race. Prizes for U 13; U 15; &
U 17 boys and girls. Registration
from 6.15 pm in Clonmany Community
Centre. Goody-bag for all finishers.
Tel: 086 3360636 for more details.
Entry fee €10 for 5k / €5
for 1 Mile.
Car Boot
Sale - Indoor Market in the
Plaza Buncrana takes place every Saturday
from 11 am – 4 pm. All sorts
of stalls welcome. Tables are provided
at €10 each. No need to book
in advance. Side doors of the Plaza
are open for sellers from 10 am. More
information from Colette on 086 3984451.
The
Deep End – A Word for the Weeds
You can sum up today’s
long Gospel reading [Mt. 13:24-43]
in two words: Cool it! A most insightful
piece of writing, it comes with a
take you wouldn’t expect. It
puts me in mind of something the late
John O’Donohue wrote in his
book Eternal Echoes [p.89]: ‘Where
all danger is neutralised, nothing
can ever grow’. And it's growth
that Jesus’ parable is concerned
with: your growth, my growth and humankind’s
growth into the fullness of life.
Whatever harms life
is alien to it. We don’t come
into this world with embedded seeds
of self-destruction. God creates us
for life, not death; for wholeness,
not sickness; for happiness, not horror;
for joy, not gloom; for hope, not
despair; and for glory, not damnation.
Somewhere along the
line things went wrong. Still do.
And when they do we shouldn’t
get too hot and bothered about rooting
out the cause. To put it starkly,
we need to be able to live with sin.
Not in it, but with it. For seriously
minded people of faith that is possible,
but only when their God is benign.
When they know God
to be the Compassionate One, who fashioned
this beautiful creation so lovingly
knowing it would be marred by evil
– the price to pay for freedom.
If God can live with
weeds until the harvest, then so can
we. So must we. They can't destroy
the crop. No fear of that. But being
violent with them will do more harm
than good. So, cool it! God rules,
not the weeds.
Fr Tom
Cahill SVD
Scoil
Mhuire Gleneely School Reunion - 1st
August 2008
Tickets for the reunion on 1st August
can be had from any committee member:
Mary McDaid, Gleneely; Hubert McLaughlin,
Gleneely; Joe Kearney, Gleneely; Marie
McCallion, 1 Foxwood; Catherine McCallion,
Claggan; Niall McDaid, Gleneely or
Paddy McLaughlin, The Corner, Gleneely.
You can get more details from mtmccallion@hotmail.com
or by telephoning 9367113. Tickets
cost €25 for Dinner & Dance
or €10 for the Dance only.
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