| Sunday
30th August 2009
22nd
Sunday in Ordinary Time
‘This
people honours me only with lip-service,
while their hearts are far from
me.’ Jesus quoted
this passage from the prophet Isaiah
to the Pharisees and Scribes. We
need to listen to it today also.
We get so used to doing particular
things that we can forget why we
are doing them and then our hearts
are not in them. This is true of
the practice of our faith, which
can easily be reduced by us to rituals
and duties. It is true also in our
love for one another. Husbands and
wives need to constantly renew their
love for one another and put their
hearts into that love again. Parents
need to renew their love for their
children because parenting can easily
become a burden that is carried
with little heart. And we need to
put new heart into our prayer so
that God may come more and more
alive to us.
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
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Taste
and see that the Lord is good.
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Sunday, August
30th 2009
22nd Sunday
in Ordinary Time.
First Reading
Deuteronomy 4:1-2.6-8
Moses presents the Law to the people
of Israel.
Second Reading
James 1:17-18.21-22.27
You must do what the word tells you,
and not deceive yourselves.
Gospel Mark
7:1-8.14-15.21-23
Jesus teaches that the Commandment
of God is more important than human
traditions.
MASS
TIMES
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
, Thursday 10 am;
Friday, The First Friday of
the Month,
8 pm; Saturday, 10
am.
Saturday,
Vigil, 8 pm;
Sunday,
8.30 am & 11 am.
Confessions
Friday, 7.15 pm—7.45 pm; Saturday:
7.15 pm—7.45 pm
Next Week
Month’s Mind Mass
Sunday, 11 am, Kathleen Harkin [formerly
Kathleen Doherty {Jack}, Bootagh].
Weekly Offering: €1,685;
Development Collection, €1,000;
Good-As-New Shop, €700 . Thank
you for your generosity.
Mass
Rock
Mass at the Mass
Rock to take place today, 30th August
at 3 pm
[rescheduled from
last Sunday].
Good-As-New
Shop
The Shop is now open
at Margaret the Painter’s premises
in Carn. All proceeds are for the
Development Fund – please give
it your support.
Whist
1st: Gerard Doherty,
Ourt.
2nd: Vera Deeny,
Terrawee
3rd: Paddy McLaughlin,
Gleneely & Gretta Coyle, Buncrana;
Tickets – Colette
Carlin, Mary Ellen Ruddy, John Duffy,
Annie McColgan, Patsy McGranaghan.
Other winners –
Patricia Harkin, James McConalogue,
Mickey O'Donnell, Nellie Carlin, Mary
Ellen Ruddy, Denis McGonagle.
Whist every Friday at 8.45 pm
Snowball - €60
for 187 or better
Bocan
Community Defibrillator
Meeting
in Bocan Hall
on Thursday, 3rd
September at 9 pm, followed by a refresher
course in preparation for re-certification
which will take place on 7th September
in the Glengad Community Centre from
7.30 pm onwards.
Ceili Classes
resume in the Wee Hall, Culdaff on
Wednesday, 2nd September. Beginners
very welcome. Dancing from 9 pm –
11 pm: admission [inc supper €3].
SPONSORED
CHARITY CYCLE
A Sponsored Cycle will be held on
Sunday, 6th September. It will leave
from SuperValu, Carndonagh at 10am.
There will be 4 different routes to
suit all abilities. Route one: 3 miles
(suitable for children accompanied
by an adult); Route two: 13 miles;
Route three: 24 miles; Route four:
40 miles (Carn – Moville –
Shrove – Cooks Hill –
Kinnego Bay – Culdaff –
Malin – Carn).
All proceeds in aid of the Foyle Hospice
and Donegal Hospice. Sponsor cards
available, or you can pay 10 euro
(adult) or 5 euro (child) registration
on the day. Please phone one of the
following for a sponsor card: Anne
086 166 4760; Grainne 086 8580 283;
Susan 086 157 4454. Refreshments will
be served afterwards. Your support
will be much appreciated.
Follow Liam and Andy on their Tandie
!! . . . . . . .
Liam McCauley and Andy Doherty Toner
have agreed to undertake the cycle
on a tandem. Rumour has it that they
will be seriously challenged by two
fit ladies on another tandem!! Watch
this space!
Scoil Naomh
Mhuire, Gleneely re-opens
on Tuesday, 1st September;
St Boden’s N.S. Culdaff,
re-opens on Tuesday 1st September;
Bocan Community Playgroup
re-opens on Tuesday, 1st
September at 9.15 am. For more information
contact Vera on 087 9745381
Welcome
Back!
Serenity House
- Due to cancellations there are a
few seats remaining on the Serenity
House 6 day trip to Westport on September
20. For further information contact
Serenity House on 9382945.
Serenity House,
Moville are forming a Carers
Support Group and a Support Group
for Depression commencing September
09. If anyone is interested in these
support groups, please contact Serenity
House on 9382945 for further information.
Table Quiz
Gleneely Colts are having a quiz night
in Carrick's Bar on the 4th of Sept
at 9. 30 pm. Everyone is welcome and
your support would be greatly appreciated.
Poetry Competition
Entries are now being taken for the
Charles Macklin Autumn School poetry
competition. For rules and entry
form send SAE to Ann McDaid, Main
St, Culdaff or visit www.charlesmacklin.com
Closing date 25th September 2009.
The monthly
devotions, in Honour of Our Lady,
will take place in the Carmelite Retreat
Centre, Termonbacca, Derry on Tuesday
1st September starting with confessions
at 7.30 p.m. followed by Rosary and
Mass, finishing around 10.00 p.m.
All are welcome to attend.
To support the essential work of Children
in Crossfire, the largest indoor car
boot sale and market has been opened
every Saturday from 9am to 3pm. The
30,000 sq ft unit is at Elagh Business
Park on the Buncrana Road, close to
Bridgend.
Find a bargain and the admission of
50 pence will help children in Ethiopia
and Tanzania. Giving the chance of
an education, access to clean drinking
water and medicine.
The
Deep End: - Give-And-Take
Fr Tom Cahill SVD
To paraphrase Benjamin Disraeli: there
are rules, damned rules and commandments.
Whatever about the rules, damned or
otherwise, the commandments must be
observed diligently according to today’s
First Reading [Deut 4:1-2, 6-8]. Doing
so shows wisdom and discernment [v.6].
What a pleasant and peaceful way of
looking at someone else’s orders
to you! Not characteristic of today’s
ethos. I wonder what goes wrong to
give the impression that God’s
commandments are burdens to be borne,
better yet ignored, rather than gifts
to be cherished.
Why do some people worship money,
power and sex instead of the one true
God? Why can’t they see the
tyranny that servitude to these produces?
Why can’t they see the freedom
that having the one true God in one’s
life endows? And why can’t they
see the commandments as guiding lights
to help them travel life’s convoluted
course in safety? There are so many
‘why’s’.
God created us to live in community.
At family level community living calls
for give-and-take. If members make
demands regardless of how it affects
others, then the quality of life degrades.
If all are equally demanding, then
you have a dysfunctional family.
At world level, community living also
calls for give-and-take: individually,
collectively and nationally. God’s
commandments wise us up to the need
for justice, generosity, and respect
for all people. They help us to adapt
to life out there in the real world.
They prevent us from expecting that
life to adapt to us. That’s
why many don’t like them. But,
if we didn’t have them, would
we not have to invent them?
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