St
Mary’s Church Bocan
27th May 2007—No 25
PENTECOST SUNDAY
Money Matters:
Priests Collection
€1,685; Development Collection,
€1,015. Thank you
for your generosity.
N.B. The Diocesan Purposes
Collection will be taken
up at all Masses this weekend, and
there will be no Development Envelope
this weekend.
Thanks –
The church-gate collection
for the Homeless realised €245
and the church-gate collection for
M.S. realised €370. Thanks to
all those who contributed and to those
who collected.
Today’s
Readings
1st The experience
of the first Pentecost is described
in the Acts of the Apostles ;
2nd The gifts of
the Spirit make it possible to live
in unity and peace;
Gospel The presence
of the risen Lord fills the disciples
with peace and joy.
1st Holy Communion
A big thank you to all the parents
and teachers of the First Communion
children who received the Sacrament
today. May God’s presence be
with them always. Also, a word of
thanks to the parents who provided
the refreshments afterwards.
Blessing of Graves
- Sunday, 8th July at 7pm.
Parish Council
Meeting
There will be a short meeting of the
Parish Council on Monday night at
8 pm in Bocan Hall. All members are
asked to attend.
Bocan Youth
Club Rota – 1st June
Marion Keddy, Jimmy McLaughlin, Sandra
McLarky, Elizabeth O’Brien.
Sincere sympathy
James O’Kane,
has died after a long illness. He
will be remembered for his keen mind
and sharp wit. Our deepest sympathy
to his brother Dominic and sister
Mary, his grand-nephews and grand-nieces
and to the wider family circle. May
he rest in the peace of the Risen
Christ.
Carndonagh Community
school
The Post Leaving Certificate Department
is offering a course in Business Administration
and Tourism in the Academic Year 07/08
[FETAC Level 5]. The course consists
of modules in Administration, word
and Text Processing, Accounting, Spreadsheets,
Databases and Communications. Work
placement in local business firms
is also included. PLC students may
also repeat leaving certificate maths
while doing this course. Mature students
can also apply. Application forms
are available by phoning the school
on 9374260.
Carmelite Retreat
Centre Fun-Day
This Sunday, 27th May with indoor
and outdoor fun for all the family.
Everyone welcome.
Holy
Spirit
The outpouring of his Holy Spirit
is really the outpouring of his love,
surrounding ad penetrating your little
soul with a peaceful, joyful delight
in his creature: tolerant, peaceful
love, full of long-suffering and gentleness,
working quietly, able to wait for
results, faithful, devoted, without
variableness or shadow of turning.
Such is the charity of God.
Love breaks down the barrier that
shuts most of us from heaven. That
thought is too much for us really,
yet it is the central truth of the
spiritual life. And that loving self-yielding
to the Eternal Love – that willingness
that God shall possess, indwell, fertilise,
bring forth the faith of his Spirit
in us, instead of our own –
is the secret of all Christian power
and Christian peace.
Evelyn Underbill 1875-1941
Carers Support
Programme
For people who care for anyone living
with an Eating Disorder will run on
Tuesdays for 4 weeks from 7.30 pm
– 9.30 pm in Derry Well Woman.
It will provide information and education
about the different types of eating
disorders. It will also offer the
opportunity to talk and examine new
ways of managing day to day difficulties.
Come along on the night or contact
Karen or Patricia on 048 71 360777.
Serenity
House
Cancer Support Meeting
– Monday 28th May at 7.30 pm.
All are welcome.
Inishowen Maritime Museum
& Planetarium Tea Room
now open every day.
Rocket Launches
at the Inishowen Maritime Museum on
Sunday, 27th May at 3 pm.
Spirit-filed
life
While people may have their problems
with the idea of the Church and all
its’ human limitations, very
few have any problem thankfully with
the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is beyond
gender and our human pettiness. That
being said, Pentecost doesn’t
impact on most people. We get Christmas
and Easter, even All saints Day, but
Pentecost is a strange word and reality.
For those of you condemned to the
torture of regular meetings which
literally record minutes and take
up hours, it’s good to note
that the Holy Spirit first came to
them as they met . Mind you tongues
of fire and ability in foreign languages
seem all very
strange to us.
But a meeting is only as good as
its decision are implemented. As anyone
in business will tell you , you need
action points, a timescale and someone
to implement them for it to be effective.
And yet at so many parish meetings,
people panic and resist if anything
about sharing faith with others is
suggested. ‘Who am I to tell
my neighbour what to believe?.
Pentecost is about having a sense
of purpose, feeling assured and confident
in ourselves and our faith. Come Holy
Spirit.
Fr Tom
Cox
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