MASS
TIMES
Monday, Funeral Mass
of Benny Doherty, Claggan,
11 am;
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday,
10 am;
Friday, First Friday
of the Month, 8 pm; Saturday, 10
am.
Confessions
Friday, 7.15—7.45 pm; Saturday,
7.15 pm—7.45 pm;
This Week’s
Anniversary Mass
Saturday Vigil Mass: :
John McGee, Glebe [Month’s
Mind];
Sunday 11 am: Mary Gurney, Effishmore
[Anniversary]
Next Week
Saturday Vigl: John Joe McLaughlin,
Cloncha, [Month’s Mind];
8.30 am: Donal McCarron, Ballyharry
11 am: William Doherty, Terryrone
Weekly
Offering: €1,580; Development
Collection, €840.
Thank
you for your generosity.
Thank You
A big thank you to those who contributed
to the recent church gate collections
for Arthritis Ireland [€302]
and the Alzheimer’s Collection
[€390]. Your contributions
will help these services.
Inishowen
Rural Transport Services to Letterkenny.
Do you have a medical appointment
in Dublin, Sligo or Galway and have
no transport to Letterkenny. Our
service runs two mornings per week,
leaving Inishowen early and connects
to Marley’s and the Friends
of Letterkenny buses travelling
to Dublin and also buses going to
Sligo and Galway. Booking is essential.
For further information on this
service you can contact the operator
Gerald Bradley directly on 086 2776441
or contact IDP office at 074 9322291
or Cormac on 0879861606.
Parish Council
Meeting on Monday, 1st March at
8 pm in Bocan Hall. All members
are asked to attend.
The Good-as-New-Shop
is now open, in Margaret T Doherty’s
premises, Carn, in aid of St Boden’s
P.S.. Please support our fund-raising
efforts.
Derry Diocesan
Lourdes Pilgrimage
16th-21st July 2010
Application forms are available
for any young person aged 14-15
years who would like a place on
the Diocesan Pilgrimage. Special
arrangements are made for the youth
who will be lead by the Pilgrimage
Youth Team.
More information
from the Pilgrimage Office on 048
71 351233.
Youth Club
Rota: 5th March:
Jimmy McLaughlin, Ilka McDermott,
Eilish Bell, Cathy Doherty.
Engaged
Encounter is designed for
couples preparing for marriage and
seeking to enrich communication
in all aspects of their relationship.
It fulfills diocesan requirements
for marriage preparation. The next
weekend will take place on 20-21st
March 2010 in Dromantine Conference
Centre, Newry. Booking essential
before 8th March. Phone 048 7930
0340 or visitwww.marriageencounter.ie.
SCOUTING
IRELAND
A meeting has been arranged for
Monday, March 1 at 8pm, downstairs
in the Wee Hall, Culdaff. Any adult
interested in being a leader for
the new Scouts, Cubs, or Beavers
groups is asked to come along. More
information available from Kevin
Ferguson, Scouting Ireland on 0860473459.
Scoil Mhuire
Gleneely, School Enrolments
Enrolments are now being taken for
new Infant class for September 2010.
Forms are available from the school
office or telephone 93 67236. Please
submit your child's application
by the end of March.
Carmelite
Retreat Centre, Termonbacca
The monthly devotions, in honour
of Our Lady, will take place in
the Carmelite Retreat Centre, Termonbacca,
Derry on Tuesday 2nd March starting
with confessions at 7.30 p.m. followed
by Rosary and Mass, finishing around
10.00 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
North West
Regional College Open Night
Thursday 11th March from 5.30 pm
– 8.30 pm. Guidance and information
n courses starting this September,
college tours and talks from college
staff will be available. To attend
please provide your name, address,
subject interest and choice of college
location to : opennight@nwrc.ac.uk
or text NWOPEN to 86122 or T. 048
71 276022.
SERENITY
HOUSE - Due to unforeseen
circumstances the information evening
on Depression will take place in
Serenity House, Moville in 10 March
2010 at 7pm. Anyone interested please
contact Serenity House on 9382945
for further information.
Deposits are now due in for the
Serenity House 6 day trip
to Wales which will take
place on 2 May 2010. For further
information contact Serenity House
on 9382945.
Moville Family Resource
Centre drama sessions for
young people aged 12 years and upwards
will take place on Fridays from
7pm to 9pm in St Eugene’s
Hall commencing Friday 26 February.
Fee per session is 3 euro. For further
information contact 9385548.
''The Columba
Community, Columba House,
11 Queen St, Derry,
in conjunction with the YARD
project, will
be hosting a 2 day Family Support
Programme on the 13th & 14th
March at Columba House. The programme
is for anyone over 18 yrs who has
been affected by or is concerned
about the abuse of alcohol, drugs
or gambling of a family member or
friend. The programme will help
people understand addiction and
through support, encouragement and
information it aims to help you
learn new ways to cope and improve
the quality of your life. This is
an introduction to the 12 Step programme
way of living. For more information
or to book a place on the course
please contact Claire on 02871 269113
(RoI 04871 269113) or email the
yardproject@btinternet.com
''.
Whist
1st: Congratulations
to John Doherty, Malin Head on winning
the snowball.
2nd: Ernie McLucas,
Carn
3rd: Fr McGonagle,
Bocan & Patricia Harkin, Culdaff
Tickets:
- Roger Mooney, Cloncha, Michael
O’Donnell, Carn, Paddy McLaughlin,
Gleneely.
Other Winners Annie
McBride, Annie McColgan, James McConalogue,
John Duffy.
Whist every Friday night at 8.45
pm in Bocan Hall.
Snowball Next Week
€30 for 190 or better.
The
Deep End * Identi-kit
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
If we regard all information gathered
up to 1900 as one unit, since then
that unit has doubled every ten
years. We have shot dramatically
from the Stone Age to Information
Age. But at heart we’re still
hunter-gatherers. Nowadays we ‘hunt’
for knowledge by gathering information.
We’ve replaced spears with
technology.
Take, for example, those wishing
to establish paternity. A do-it-yourself
DNA test-kit was due shortly in
pharmacies across the UK, according
to one newspaper’s report
last August. Costing £29.99
with a £129 lab fee you would
be able to establish paternity in
less than five days.
If we read the Bible we can establish
paternity in les than five minutes,
and at no cost – financial
that is. But it’s faith not
technology that recognises knowledge
found in scripture as truth found
in life. In today’s Second
Reading [Phil 3:17-4-21] Paul speaks
of our citizenship. He could just
as easily speak of our paternity.
He says our citizenship is in heaven.
We belong to another order of reality
because that’s the origin
of our paternity. This is what the
Gospel Reading [Luke 9:28-36] is
telling us too. A voice form the
cloud addresses the transfigured
Jesus as my Son, my Chosen.
Being baptised in Jesus’ name
we share in his paternity, but by
adoption . Jesus tells us to call
God Father when we pray this Lent,
let’s listen to our Father’s
word in scripture so that we accept
ever more maturely and humbly a
paternity that no identi-kit can
establish – unless the D in
DNA stands for ‘divine’.
Carndonagh
Community School
Collectors will be calling this
week to collect the Donation Envelopes
that were distributed earlier.
