If your lips confess
that Jesus is Lord and if you believe
in your heart that God raised him
from the dead, then you will be saved.
MASS
TIMES
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday & Saturday, 10 am.
Confessions
Saturday, 7.15 pm—7.45 pm;
This Week’s
Anniversary Mass
Saturday Vigil: 8 pm Mick Doherty,
Ballybawn
Next Week
Saturday Vigil Mass: :
John McGee, Glebe [Month’s
Mind];
Sunday 11 am: Mary Gurney, Effishmore
[Anniversary]
Weekly Offering:
€1,500; Development Collection,
€860.
Thank you
for your generosity.
Inishowen
Rural Transport Services to Letterkenny.
Do you have a medical appointment
in Dublin, Sligo or Galway and have
no transport to Letterkenny. Our
service runs two mornings per week,
leaving Inishowen early and connects
to Marley’s and the Friends
of Letterkenny buses travelling
to Dublin and also buses going to
Sligo and Galway. Booking is essential.
For further information on this
service you can contact the operator
Gerald Bradley directly on 086 2776441
or contact IDP office at 074 9322291
or Cormac on 0879861606.
Parish Council
Meeting on Monday, 1st March at
8 pm in Bocan Hall. All members
are asked to attend.
The Good-as-New-Shop
is now open, in Margaret T Doherty’s
premises, Carn, in aid of St Boden’s
P.S.. Please support our fund-raising
efforts.
Derry Diocesan
Lourdes Pilgrimage
16th-21st July 2010
Application forms are available
for any young person aged 14-15
years who would like a place on
the Diocesan Pilgrimage. Special
arrangements are made for the youth
who will be lead by the Pilgrimage
Youth Team.
More information
from the Pilgrimage Office on 048
71 351233.
Knock Marriage
Introduction Bureau
The aim of the Bureau is to introduce
people considering marriage to a
suitable marriage partner. Over
800 marriages have taken place as
a result of these introductions.
If you are searching for a suitable
partner, why not consider applying?
More information from 094 9375960
or www.knockmarriagebureau.com
Inishowen
Gardening Club - Talk on
Monday 22nd February in Wesley Hall,
Bridge Street, Carndonagh at 8pm.
The topic this month is "Soils,
Fertilizers, Lawns" by Denis
Doherty. All welcome.
Anger Management
Everyone knows what anger is. But
how do you express it without hurting
others or hurting yourself? Uncontrolled
anger can cost you your marriage,
your job, your relationships, your
health and the respect of your loved
ones. The Irish Association of Anger
Management is running a two-day
intensive programme “Temper
your Anger” on Saturday 24th
and Sunday 25th April 2010 at the
Radisson Hotel, Sligo. Places are
limited so book early – more
information from Peter Devers on
087 798 9253 or WWW.difficultemotions.net
“Bereaved by
Suicide”
Growing Through Change Programme
Friday 26th – Sunday
28th February 2010.
For further information and application
forms please contact Bridie
or Pat at the Youthlife Centre 23
Bishop Street, Derry BT48
6PR Tel: 028 71377227
Mobile: 07912507388
Email: youthlife_be@hotmail.com
or visit our web site www.youthlife.btik.com
SERENITY
HOUSE
A meeting
of the Cancer Support Group will
take place on Monday 22 February
at 7.30pm in Serenity House, Moville.
All welcome.
Serenity Active Retirement
meeting will take place
on Wednesday on 24 February 2010
at 8pm. Guest speaker for the evening
is Sergeant Paul Wallace. For further
information contact Serenity House
on 9382945.
Due to unforeseen circumstances
the information evening on Depression
will take place in Serenity House,
Moville in 10 March 2010 at 7pm.
Anyone interested please contact
Serenity House on 9382945 for further
information.
Bocan Drama Club presents
“Johnnies Britches”,
a three act comedy by playwright
P.G O’Dea in St Eugene’s
Hall, Moville on Friday 26 February,
doors opening at 8pm, play begins
at 8.30pm. Admission, adults 8 euro,
children 5 euro. Proceeds in aid
of the Moville Methodist Hall, Building
Fund.
Inishowen
Development Partnership
Inishowen Development Partnership
is currently recruiting participants
for IT courses commencing in March.
Proposed courses are Basic Computing,
Introduction to the Internet, Computer
Applications, ECDL, ECDL Update
and Business Computing. Classes
will take place in both Carndonagh
and Buncrana. All courses are FETAC
or ICS Skills certified.
Anyone who would like to attend
a class or requires further information,
please contact Sinead McDaid (IT
Tutor) on Tel: 086 8216306/93 62218.
Carndonagh
Community School Guest Tea
On Friday 26th February at 8.30
pm. Tickets are available from Philomena
O’Brien on 9379448 / 086818418189
and cost €15. This includes
a beautiful buffet meal and dancing
to Shunie Crampsie. All proceeds
from this event are in aid of School
Funds. So come along for a great
night out.
Whist
1st: Gerard Doherty, Ourt
2nd: Annie McBride
3rd: Mary b McLaughlin
4th Fr McGonagle
Tickets: - James McConalogue, Seamus
Harkin, Mary B McLaughlin
Whist every Friday night at 8.45
pm in Bocan Hall.
Snowball Next Week €130 for
180 or better.
The
Deep End * Morality Genes
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
After twenty years of research and
God knows how much expense it’s
finally on the market: the blue
rose. Not available in Nature, it’s
the product of genetic manipulation.
Someone, obviously not given to
flowery language, has rather prosaically
named it Applause. Marketed as a
special occasion gift, for wedding
anniversaries, birthdays and the
likes, it retails at about €22
per stem. That should weed out the
true romantics from the common garden
variety, don’t you think?
What’s that got to do with
Lent? Nothing, really! I was just
thinking that even with the impressive
dedication and considerable resources
that went into manufacturing this
blushing freak of nature, you could
wait until you were blue in the
face before you’d see genetics
modify a human being in to a better
person. The day of the morality
gene isn’t around the corner.
So, for those sensible enough to
want to be a better person what
more effective way to go about it
than by listening to what Paul says
in today’s Second Reading:
The word is near you, on your lips
and in your heart. (Rom 10: 8-13].
Lent is a time for listening. There’s
much sacrifice involved in listening
well:
Sacrifice of time, emotional comfort
and the luxury of aloofness. Is
it going too far to say that those
who don’t listen to God’s
word can’t listen to anyone
else’s?
What better way, then, to start
Lent than by tuning in to God’s
word as we listen to our heart express
its deepest desire. God’s
word, our heart? A rose by any other
name….
