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St
Mary’s Church Bocan - 21st October
2007—No 46
29th
Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Mission Sunday
Pester
Power
If easy communication is one of the
boons of the Internet, a considerable
blight is ‘spam’ –
that means unsolicited messages or
Electronic Mails. Ignore them and
they keep coming. A ‘buzz off’
reply only confirms you exist and
ensures a greater deluge of mail,
offering to extend your car mileage,
extend credit, offer discount pills,
even cosmetic surgery.
It’s certainly in the spirit
of the prayer –master’s
advice to adopt the APU program when
they pray. The acronym means ‘Be
aggressive. Be persistent. Be unreasonable.’
the deviser of advertising messages
certainly fulfil all three criteria..
But where does our persistent widow
fit in? A member of a vulnerable section
of society, where all too frequently
a deceased husband’s estate
went to his relatives. She was a squeaky
wheel demanding oil. Persistent pleading
like prayer takes a lot of faith.
Are churches emptying because at heart
some see prayer as totally irrelevant
and useless, not to mention when God
seems to say ‘no’. Have
we confused prayer with saying prayers;
get the right formula and posture
[like Moses with uplifted arms perhaps?]
and bingo – results.
No, it’s something grittier,
persistent and honest. Children don’t
hide their sulks, pouts and tantrums.
In prayer, we can be transparently
honest and know that like a parent
facing a childish trauma, God is up
to the task. Just be persistent.
Fr Tom Cox
Responsorial
Psalm
Our help is in the name of the Lord
who made heaven and earth.
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God be in
my head
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Today’s
Readings
First Reading Exodus
17: 8-13
The Israelites gain a victory over
their enemies through the power of
God which comes to them as a result
of the prayer of Moses.
Second Reading St John 4: 11-16
God lives in us through his Spirit.
Gospel Luke 18: 1-8
Jesus exhorts his disciples to pray
continually and never to grow discouraged.
Money
Matters:
Weekly Offering €1,500;
Development Collection,
€1,000. Thank you
for your generosity.
N.B. The Mission
Sunday Collection will be taken up
next weekend.
Anniversaries
Mary & Charlie Kearney
Seamus McCandless
Station Mass
Station Mass in the home of Danny
& Celia McConologue, Carrowmore
on Monday, 22 October at 8 pm.
Mission Sunday
This Sunday is Mission Sunday. Pope
Benedict reminds us that the absence
of God in the lives of millions is
the greatest suffering. People are
hungry for God, not just for bread
and freedom. Please help Missionaries
to reflect God’s love with the
support of your prayer, offering of
suffering and a generous financial
contribution.
Whist Winners
1st Patricia
Harkin, Culdaff;
2nd Josie
Buckley, Carndonagh;
3rd Tina
Doherty, Carndonagh.
Lowest Score:
Mary Farren, Pound Street, Carndonagh;
Highest Score, Brian Diver, Buncrana.
Draw Winners:
[1st] [1st] James McConalogue, Cashel;
[2nd] Mary Ellen Ruddy, Culdaff [3rd]
Josie Buckley, Carndonagh.
The Whist is on every Friday night
at 8.45 pm in Bocan Hall. Come along
for a great night's craic.
Columba House
Fr Jim Burke OP will concelebrate
Mass and pray for healing in Columba
House, 11 Queen Street, Derry on Thursday,
25th October at 7.30 pm and also in
The IOSAS Centre on Sunday, 28th October
at 3 pm. Everyone welcome.
Gleneely Silver-Circle Winners
[12th October] – 1st:
Michael Skelly, Moville; 2nd: Barry
Kearney, Gleneely; 3rd: Ann Barron,
c/o Katie Duffy.
[19th October] – 1st:
Sadie McDaid, Gleneely; 2nd: Evelyn
Doherty, Gleneely; 3rd: Veronica Carlin,
Derry.
Bocan Youth Club Rota
Friday, 26th October – Greta
Doherty; Carmel Lynch; Mary O’Kane;
Noeleen Ruddy.
UMBRA Clothes Collection
Wednesday, 31st October at 12 noon
in the Chapel Car Park.
British Pensions
If you are in receipt of a British
Pension or have not claimed a British
Pension and you are a man born between
6th April 1933 – 24th October
1939 or a woman born between 6th April
1938 - October 1944 you may be entitled
to an increased pension and arrears
back. All other information on British
Pensions, even if you have only worked
in Britain for a year, is available
by telephoning 9128010.
Inishowen Gardening Club
Denis Doherty will host a question
and Answer session on Gardening in
the Wesley Hall on Monday, 22 October
at 8 pm. Everyone welcome.
God
Be In My Head
Sarum Missal [11th Century]
God be in my head
And in my understanding;
God be in my eyes,
And in my looking;
God be in my mouth,
And in my speaking;
God be in my heart,
And in my thinking
God be at my end,
And at my departing.
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