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Mary’s Church Bocan
24th
August 2008
21st
Sunday in Ordinary Time
An
Apache Marriage Blessing
Now you will feel no rain,
for each of you will be a shelter
to the other.
Now you will feel
no cold,
for each of you will be warmth to
the other.
Now there will
be no loneliness,
for each of you will be a comfort
to the other.
Now you are two
persons,
but there is only one life before
you.
Go now to your
dwelling place,
to enter into the days of your togetherness.
And may your good
days be good
and long upon the earth.
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Your
love, O Lord, is eternal, discard
not the work of your hands.
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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.
On
this Rock I will build my Church
“You are the
Christ, the Son of the living God.”
This is the core of our faith as followers
of Christ. A way of restating this
is that Christ is the one above all
others who can teach us the fullness
of human life. And he teaches us that
the only way to full human living
is to love God with our whole heart
and to love our neighbour as ourselves.
Married couples are the great prophets
of this way, as love is at the core
of their existence. But this love
has to be worked at every day. Love
does not just mean how we feel but
how we choose what is best for each
other and for the marriage relationship.
These choices have to be made every
day and often during many days. The
same is true within family life. As
we acknowledge the family as the Domestic
Church, we know that love is at the
centre of it. And certainly if we
are to build the parish as a community
of faith these decisions to love,
to make Christ present, are essential.
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
Sunday 24th
August 2008
Twenty-first
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Parish Missal Readings
(Year 1) p 339 & Proper p 1082
First Reading
Isaiah 22: 19-23
He shall be a father
to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Second Reading
Romans 11: 33-36
How rich are the depths of God and
how deep his wisdom and knowledge.
Gospel Matthew
1: 13-20
You are Peter and on this rock I will
build my Church.
Priests Collection
€1,795
Development Collection,
€1,010. Thank
you for your generosity.
Hike
to Croagh Padraig
Do you fancy a trip to Westport, Co
Mayo combined with a hike to one of
Ireland’s most famous mountains
‘Croagh Padraig’? The
trip will be on Saturday, 13th September
for those aged 16-35 and it will cost
approx £35. The fee will include
transport from Derry, a guide and
dinner in a hotel in Westport. More
information from 048 71264087.
The Derry Branch of the
Samaritans are holding Information
Evenings in September to recruit new
volunteers.
Tuesday, 9th September, at 16 Clarendon
St, Derry, at 7.30 pm;
Wednesday, 10th September, The Orchard
Inn, Letterkenny at 7.30 pm;
Thursday, 11th September, 16 Clarendon
Street, Derry at 7.30 pm.
Whist
1st: Betty Houten,
Culdaff
2nd: Seamus Coyle,
Buncrana
3rd: Sarah McDermott,
Carn
Tickets: Phyllis Lloyd, Seamus Harkin,
Vera Deeny, Seamus Harkin.
Other Winners
Eamon Donaghey, Marie Moore, Paddy
McLaughlin & Seamus Harkin.
Whist every Friday night at 8.45
pm in Bocan Hall. Snowball €40
for 189 or less.
Hospital
Careers Ireland - Hospital Posts
HospitalCareersIreland.com is a new
Derry based jobsite for Health Care
Professionals. There is no password
and access is free. For more information
contact 048 71 269602.
St
Vincent de Paul Society
Help is available to parents of 2nd
& 3rd level students. Apply to
Mickey on 9367218.
TEACH
Laptop Project – Computer Course
Inishowen Development Partnership
is currently recruiting participants
to complete a certified computer course
FETAC Level 4 [Computer Applications].
This course will delivered from the
convenience of your own homes using
laptop computers. The tutor can accommodate
up to 4-6 participants per group.
It will run for 15 weeks, one day
per week for 2½ - 3 hours.
It commences in September. For more
information contact Sinead McDaid
on 086 8216306 / 9362218.
UMBRA
Clothes Collection
Any unwanted clothes
can be left at the
chapel car-park on
Tuesday, 26th August at 12 noon
Moville 10K
& Juvenile Road Race
Saturday, 6th September.
Juvenile athletes must be aged between
11 and 16 yrs on the day of the race.
Registration from 1.30 pm in Moville
Celtic Football Club. More information
from 086 3846914 / 086 3426698.
Serenity
House
Day Trip to Lough Derg
on 27th August. The cost of the trip
is €50. more information from
9382945.
Deposits are now due
for the Serenity House trip
to Westport from the 21st-27th
September. Contact 9382945 for more
details.
The
Deep End – Our Inscrutable God
How do you make God laugh? Just tell
him your plans! The hymn of praise
that is today’s Second Reading
[Rom 11:33-36] soaring on a loftier
plane than that opening quip, nonetheless
points to the same reality: the inscrutability
of God.
Down from the heady heights of Paul's
vision of God, what does it mean for
us in daily life that God is inscrutable?
Well, let’s say first what it
doesn’t mean. It doesn’t
mean that we can’t know anything
about God, so there’s no point
in trying to. It means that we can’t
know everything about him. Coming
to terms with God in our life is our
number one priority, or should be.
Sadly, for many it isn’t.
And when we try to come to terms with
God we find, as Thomas Merton points
out in Love and Living [p.111]: ‘There
is a disconcerting aura of secularity
about much of God’s activity
as recorded in the Bible, and uneasiness
with this has generally led certain
types of philosophic religiosity to
improve on the concept of God, seeking
to make it more spiritual, more impressive
to human minds, in a word, more “divine”.’
Not only is that secularity found
in the Bible, it’s found in
real life too.
Compare the number of times we’re
told in the Bible to pray to the number
of times we’re told to love
our neighbour. And showing that love
is very down-to-earth stuff indeed
– the stuff of the Good Samaritan.
The sleeves up, hands on approach.
God wants action not just intention.
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
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