Today’s
Readings
1st Reading:
The prophet Isaiah alerts us to the
fact that God is constantly renewing
his people;
2nd Reading:
St Paul uses the language
of athletics to show that the prize
awaits those who stay in the race;
Gospel
Jesus refuses to condemn a woman who
has sinned.
Priests Collection
Priests Collection €1,550;
Development Collection, €1,010;
Clerical Education and Ongoing Formation
Collection [extra], €159.
Thank you for your generosity.
Youth Club Rota
- Friday, 30th March
Eilish Bell, Joe Donaghy, Rosalie
O’Connor & Susanna Henn.
Parish Council
Meeting
Monday, 26th March at 8 pm in Bocan
Old School. All members are asked
to attend.
With Deepest
Sympathy
The whole community was saddened by
the sudden death of Gretta
Ruddy this week. We offer
our sincere sympathy to her daughters,
Sally and Mary; her sons, Neil, John,
Paul, Charlie, Damien and Don; and
to her sister May. Her passing was
deeply mourned by all sections of
the community.
Youth Football
All youth players in the parish interested
in playing youth football this season
should attend the following training
sessions: Under 12 & Under 14
– training commences Friday,
30th March at 6 pm in Caratra Park
[fee: €2 per player]; The under
16 and Under 18 training commences
this Monday, 26th March at 7 pm in
Caratra Park [fee: €2 per player];
The Under 10 training for all boys
and girls will start in approximately
3-4 weeks.
Bingo
Malin / Glengad parents are holding
a Monster Bingo Session in aid of
Carndonagh Community School on Sunday,
1st April at 3 pm in the Glengad Community
Centre. Prizes galore including Easter
Eggs as side prizes.
Come along and support your local
school!
Serenity
House
The next meeting of the Moville
Book club takes place on
Tuesday, 17 April at 7.30 pm.
Cancer Support Group –
Meeting in Serenity House on Monday
26th March at 7.30 pm. All are welcome.
Chiropodist – Deirdre
Britton will be in Serenity House
on Friday 30th March and Tuesday,
3rd April from 9.30 pm. To make an
appointment ring 086 0666538 / 9360363.
Sage Line 50 [Stage 1] –
Names are being taken for this course
which will commence on Monday, 16th
April at 7 pm. If you are in employment,
you may be entitled to have 70% of
your fees paid under the FAS Competency
Development Programme.
ECDL Advanced Word Course
- Will commence on Thursday, 19th
April at 10 am. To book a place on
either of these courses contact Serenity
House on 9382945
Good Morning Inishowen
Reminder that this new service will
soon commence. For further information
contact Anne Gill on 93 21598
Carndonagh Community
Library Book Sale
The Annual Sale of Library Books takes
place from 27th – 30th March
[during opening hours]. Adult books
are 50c each and children’s
books are 20c each.
Lourdes Pilgrimage
Young persons aged 14-17 who would
like to travel on the Diocesan Pilgrimage
to Lourdes [16th-21st July] should
contact their head of RE at School
or the Pilgrimage Office on 048 71260293.
Carmelite Retreat
Centre
Mass with healing Service on Tuesday,
27th March at 8 pm. All welcome.
Weekend Retreat, 30th March-1st April,
contact 04871262512 for more details
and booking.
Who you are
We live in a culture of blame, accountability
and compensation. A head may roll,
but usually it’s the wrong one.
In a kind of mad mathematics we apply
money to relieve the human carnage
wrought. It’s not a perfect
system – but it is something.
And we may feel infinitely better
than the lynch mob presented to stone
a woman in the Gospel.
But underneath, are we so superior?
In Western Culture, we can talk about
any topic, but only in boringly politically
correct terms. So, while we are mostly
nice to people, respectful to colleagues,
law-abiding, not committing adultery,
or using drugs, we seem only to see
ourselves as ‘cursing and swearing.’
Look deeper to where you harbour bitterness,
hoard your time, resent intrusion,
where you’re vain and self-obsessed,
fretting of how others see you. Is
our act more spiritual than we really
are? Haven’t we all strayed
with our eyes and heart – if
not our body? We are all like that
unnamed woman in the Gospel, a mess
in the dust, before the baying hound
that is our own conscience or the
judgment of others.
Our only hope is as that song might
have put it, that ‘He’
will raise us up. There is a wideness
in God’s mercy and he will raise
us up to something infinitely better.
Fr Tom Cox
Blood
Donations
In Carndonagh Community School on
Wednesday, 28 March from 3pm –
4.45 pm & 7 pm – 9.30 pm.
Thursday 29th March, 2pm-4.45pm &
7 pm – 9.30 pm. Donors urgently
needed.
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