| St
Mary’s Church Bocan - 21st
September 2008
25th
Sunday in Ordinary Time.
The
Power of One
One SONG can spark
a moment
One FLOWER can wake the dream
One TREE can start a forest
One BIRD can herald spring
One SMILE begins a
friendship
One HANDCLASP lifts a soul
One STAR can guide a ship at sea
One WORD can frame the goal
One VOTE can change
a nation
One SUNBEAM lights a room
One CANDLE wipes out darkness
One LAUGH will conquer gloom
One STEP must start
each journey
One WORD must start each prayer
One HOPE will raise our spirits
One TOUCH can show you care
One VOICE can speak
with wisdom
One LIFE can make the difference
You see, it's up to you!!
(Author Unknown)
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The
Lord is close to all who call
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Mass
Times
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday &
Saturday,
10 am.
Saturday,
Vigil, 8 pm;
Sunday,
8.30 am & 11 am.
Confessions
Saturday,
7.15 pm—7.45 pm.
Anniversary
Masses
8.30 am Sunday: Dan McCann,
Ballyharry;
11 am Sunday, John
Lafferty, Moneydarragh.
Weekly Offering:
€1,685
Development
Collection, €1,000.
Thank
you for your generosity.
Parish
Council Meeting
Parish Council Meeting on Monday night
at 8 pm in Bocan Hall. All members
please attend.
Inishowen
Regional Pioneer Dinner Dance
In Caiseal Mara Hotel, Moville on
Friday, 17th October. Meal served
at 9 pm. Tickets €20 and are
available from Peggy 9379304 or Angela
9379303.
Good
as New Shop
The Good As New Shop [in Margaret
the Painter’s premises, Pound
Street, Carndonagh], will open on
Monday, 15th September. All kinds
of ‘saleables’ welcome
and all proceeds are in aid of Bocan
Hall.
Whist
1st: Tommy McDermott,
Carn
2nd: Philip McCool,
Carn
3rd: Dolores O'Donnell,
Carn;
Tickets James McLaughlin,
Cashel; Mary Ellen Ruddy, Culdaff;
Michael Doherty, Carn; Phyllis Lloyd,
Gleneely.
Other Winners
John Doherty, Carrie McLaughlin, John
Duffy, Annie McColgan, Patricia Harkin.
Whist every Friday night at 8.45
pm in Bocan Hall. Snowball €80
for 185 or less.
Bocan Community
Defibrillator
Training night on Thursday, 25th September
at 9 pm in Bocan Hall. Non-members
of any age are also welcome to come
along and participate or just observe.
There will be a group meeting on 15th
October at 9 pm.
Thank You
Bocan Community Defibrillator Group
would like to thank everyone who supported
and organised the recent dance held
in Bocan Hall. It realised €1,031.58
for Group funds.
Ladies Badminton
Ladies Badminton resumes on Thursday
at 9 pm in Bocan Hall. New members
welcome so come along and get fit.
Drama Club
There will be a meeting in Bocan Hall
on Wednesday, 24th September at 8.30
pm to set up a parish drama club.
Anyone interested in joining the club
either to act or help behind the scenes
please attend the meeting. If interested
but unable to attend the meting then
contact John Paul on 086 8606427 as
numbers are essential for the success
of the club.
Yoga
– Classes continue every Wednesday
at 7.30 pm in Bocan Hall. Beginners
welcome.
Scoil Mhuire
Gleneely / School Reunion Committee
In order that accounts can be finalised,
final orders for ANSEO magazines and
DVD’s will close on October
3rd. Make sure you don’t miss
a memorable magazine and DVD.
Young People’s
Pilgrimage to Lourdes, Easter 2008
The Irish Pilgrimage Trust welcomes
applications from young people with
:
a] a physical disability or illness
[age 11-18];
b] a learning disability [age 11-21]
c] Jet Set Group- Physical Disability
[age 18-25];
d] Jet Set Group Learning Disability
[age 21-30;
e] the organisation also has Family
Groups for very seriously ill children
under the age of 9, accompanied by
a parent or close relative.
More details at www.ihcpt.com
Serenity
House
Classes- The following
Classes will commence the week beginning
6th October: Irish Crochet; Oil Painting;
Jewellery Making; Handmade Patchwork;
Knitting; ECDL; Sage Line 50; Stage
3 Computer Maintenance; E-Mail and
Internet; and ECDL for Second Level
Students. More information from 9382945.
Legion of Mary Pilgrimage
to Knock Sunday, 28th September.
Bus will leave the square at 8 am.
Please bring a packed lunch. To book
contact 9382295 / 9382334.
Chiropodist In Serenity House
on Friday, 28th Sept at 9.30
am. Appointments only to 0860666538
/ 9360363.
FETAC Level
6 Train the Trainer module
commences in Serenity House on October
8th. This course is for new or inexperienced
trainers who want to learn practical
skills and useful tips to run their
own successful training sessions.
The
Deep End – Whose Strange Ways?
Biologist JBS Haldane
once remarked that the universe is
not only queerer than we might suppose,
but queerer than we can suppose. Something
similar might be said of God –
though phrased more elegantly. Perhaps
St Augustine’s comment that
‘God is younger than all else’
fits the bill. Straightaway it puts
us on a collision course with logic:
how can the one who is ever ancient,
be ever new?
Not surprising then that this ‘illogical’
God acts in some rather strange ways.
God admits this in today’s First
Reading Isa 55:6-9. ‘…my
thoughts are not your thoughts, nor
are your ways my ways…’[v.8].
But shouldn’t God be the norm
and not us? If so, then it’s
our ways that are strange and not
God’s. Is it because of our
strange ways of doing things that
today’s Gospel reading [Matt
20: 1-16] seems unfair, until the
denarius drops? When it does, what
seems unjust to our narrow way of
looking at things turns out to be
incredibly generous. All the workers
receive a fair wage, some a very generous
one.
If this story bugs us then we have
two issues, at least, to deal with:
accepting God’s ‘right’
to do as God pleases – which
may not be too easy depending on how
close to the bone God operates –
and accepting God’s challenge
to us to live generously. Only in
facing these can we begin to see the
heights where God’s thoughts
are found [v.9].
Fr Tom
Cahill SVD
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