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St
Mary’s Church Bocan - 30th September
2007—No 43
26th
Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Making
a difference
If I can stop one
Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting
Robin
Unto his Nest again
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
Responsorial
Psalm
My soul, give praise to the Lord.
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The man who
can be trusted in little things
can be trusted in great;
the man who is dishonest in
little things will be dishonest
in great.
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Today’s
Readings
First Reading: Am 6: 1. 4-7
We are warned of the dangers of complacency;
Second Reading: 1 Tm 6: 11-16
Paul encourages his co-worker, Timothy;
Gospel: Lk 16: 19-31
The parable is a wake-up call to those
who have plenty of this world’s
goods.
Money
Matters:
Weekly Offering €1,695;
Development Collection,
€1,035. Thank you
for your generosity.
Sick
All the sick of the parish will be
attended on Wednesday & Thursday
at the usual times
The Blood Transfusion
Service will be in Carndonagh
on:
Wednesday, 17 October, 3 pm –
4.45 pm & 7 pm – 9.30 pm;
Thursday, 18 October, 2 pm –
4.45 pm & 7 pm – 9.30 pm.
Donors are urgently needed.
Culdaff Senior Citizens Committee
and Culdaff Church of Ireland Committee
Present “The Lady of Leitrim”
In Bocan Hall on Sunday, 7th October
& Tuesday 9th October at 8 pm.
This play is on tour in Donegal and
Derry and is an excellent comedy not
to be missed. Tickets are €10
and are available from Andy Doherty
on 9379215 or from committee members
and local shops.
Station Mass
Friday, 5th October at 8.30 pm in
the home of Patrick and Rose McLaughlin,
Moneydarragh
Whist Winners
:1st Eddie
Duffy, Gleneely;
2nd Margaret
McGilloway, Malin;
3rd Phyllis
Lloyd & Maureen McCarron.
Lowest Score:
Dylan Doherty, Gleneely; Highest Score,
Mary McDermott, Falmore. Draw
Winners: [1st] James
McConalogue, Cashel; [2nd] Diane McGilloway,
Malin [3rd] Gerard Doherty, Ourt.
The Whist is on every Friday night
at 8.45 pm in Bocan Hall. Come along
for a great night's craic.
Mary’s Meals
‘Mary’s Meals’ are
school feeding Programmes. They help
Communities provide daily Meals to
children attending School. There are
now Mary’s Meals programmes
in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Tens of thousands of children receive
Mary’s Meals every day. Just
€7.50 buys school meals for a
hungry child for one year. If you
can help contact 071 962 0175 or check
out the website on www.marysmeals.org.
Smoke Alarms
The Donegal County Council have received
funding to extend a pilot project
for the installation of smoke alarms
in vulnerable households nationwide.
The alarms are 10-year self-contained
battery operated and in order to initiate
the project, the council have identified
three target groups, i.e older people,
people with a disability and lone
parents. If you fall into any of the
above categories and do not have a
smoke alarm in your home, please contact
Action Inishowen on 93 74529 with
your name, address, telephone number
and the target group to which you
belong.
Action Inishowen
Action Inishowen are carrying out
a survey on the number of houses in
the Inishowen Peninsula that have
poor or no attic insulation as there
may be funding available to Action
Inishowen to assist those on a low
income. Please forward your name,
address, telephone number PPS Number
and the type of social welfare payment
or benefit that you are receiving
to: Action Inishowen, Millbrae, Carndonagh
or telephone 9374529.
Women’s Health Development Officer
There will be a meeting on 16th October,
from 12-2 pm at Inishowen Outreach
to discuss how best to promote Women's
Health in the North West. For more
information contact 9329494 or leave
a message on the phone and they will
get back to you.
Culdaff Care of the Aged
Meeting on Tuesday, 3rd October
at 8.30 pm in Bocan Old School. Members
are asked to attend and new members
are most welcome.
Attention Farmers & Fishermen
in the Inishowen Area
Rural Social Scheme – call for
expressions of Interest for 2008.
are you or your spouse/dependent in
receipt of Farm/Fish assist or have
a herd number/ registered boat number
and in receipt of long-term Social
Welfare payments? Contact 9373083
for more information.
Remember Who You Are
Fr Colm Kilcoyne once memorably recalled
how he and probably most of his generation
were sent off to school, sports or
socials with a good douse of holy
water from the huge hallway font and
the maternal greeting/warning ringing
in your ears; ‘now remember
who you are’. It wasn’t
really a reference to social standing.
Very few in Ireland had such a luxury
back then. It was more of a call back
to live
your life worthily, with the dignity
deserved.
Today, we are given a douse of Gospel
water to bring us back to our senses.
We need it as a lot of us do lose
the run of ourselves. We seem to develop
an amnesia of the spirit and lose
our connections with our better self,
with God and with people. The rich
man in God’s kingdom is the
man with no name. That is because
he has lost his identity. In total
contrast Lazarus who is unnoticed
in this world has an identity. There
is no reason to believe that the rich
man was a bad person either, probably
so busy and harried that he just did
not notice.
Today, ‘remember who you are’.
Take a good look around you at who
and what you need to take notice of.
Fr Tom Cox
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