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Mass Times this Week
Monday - Friday:
7.00am; 10.00am & 7.00pm.
Saturday:
No Morning Mass; 7.00pm.
Sunday:
10.30am & 12.30pm.
Sunday,
28th February 2010
2nd
Sunday of Lent
First
Reading : Gensis 15: 5-12.17-18
God makes a covenant with Abraham.
Second
Reading: Philippians 3: 17-4:1
Christ will transfigure our bodies into copies
of his glorious body.
Gospel:
Luke 9: 28-36
The disciples witness the Transfiguration of
Christ.
Identi-kit
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 Stone Age to Information
Age. But at heart we’re still hunter-gathers.
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 in pharmacies across the UK, according
to one newspaper’s report last August. Costing
£29.99 with a £129.00 lab fee you would
be able to establish paternity in less than five days.
If we read the
Bible we can establish paternity in less 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 3:17-4:1) 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 from 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. So, as 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’.
Announcements
Visitation
of Sick and Housebound
The sick and housebound
will be visited on Monday 1 March as follows:
Monday
Morning: Carlton Drive, Melmount Park, Urney
Road, Lisnafin Park, Castletown, Country Area.
First Friday
Friday of this
week is the First Friday.
Confessions will
be on Thursday after 10.00am Mass and on Friday at 6.15pm.
Dates
for Baptism
The following
are the dates for the Sacrament of Baptism during the
months of March and April:
March:
Sunday 7; Saturday 13; Sunday 21.
April: Sunday 4; Saturday 17; Sunday
25.
Times for Baptism: Sunday 1.15pm; Saturday
4.00pm
We
welcome into God’s Family through the Sacrament
of Baptism:
Jenna Louise Friel
Oran Daniel Gallagher
Elayna Buchanan
Daithi Ryan McDaid
Megan Rose McGrath
We
congratulate the following couple who were recently
united in the Sacrament of Marriage:
Francis Devine
and Laura O’Doherty
Mass Times during
Lent
Monday - Friday: 7.00am; 10.00am & 7.00pm.
Saturday: No Morning
Mass; 7.00pm.
Sunday: 10.30am
& 12.30pm.
Women’s
World Day of Prayer will take place in the
Sacred Heart Church,
Derry Road on Friday 5 March at 8.15pm.
Choir Practice
on Sunday 28 February at 3.30pm.
Prayer Group
There will be
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in
St. Colman’s
Chapel on Monday 1 March from 7.30pm - 8.30pm.
Cleaning
of the Church
Many thanks to
Patricia McDaid’s team for cleaning the church
during the month of February. The team for cleaning
the church during the month of March is Mary McGuigan’s
team.
Collection
Counters
The following
are asked to count the collection for the month of March:
Bill Doherty, Sally Drumm, Dessie Drumm, Maureen Hegarty,
Helen Foster, Brian Foster, Cecilia McDaid, Patricia
McDaid and Teddy Quigley.
May they Rest in Peace - Deaths
Packie
Arbuckle, Springhill Park
Betty
Shearer, Barrack Street
Maggie
McGettigan, Coolatee
Vincent
Bonner, 6 Foylevale
John Gallagher,
Glenmornan
Anniversaries
Helen McGoldrick,
Mamie Hoynes, Rosaleen O’Connor,
Bridget Conwell,
Willie Woods, Edward McGarrigle,
Mary Nelis, Jimmy
McLaughlin, Tommy McGranaghan,
Alice Duffy, Harry
McDermott, Nancy Sullivan,
Mary Devine, Jim
Devine, Kathleen Harte,
Patsy Harte, Eddie
McCay, Declan Coyle,
Seamus McLaughlin,
Jack Vaughan, Alex Shields,
Nancy Cunningham,
John McMonagle, Seamus Finlay,
Foncie O’Kane,
Katherine (Katie) Madden.
Melmount
Centre
Parish
Bingo Sunday 28 February.
Letterkenny Music Society, which includes
some of our choir members, presents ‘HMS Pinafore’
in An Grianan, Letterkenny from Tuesday 2 March - Saturday
6 March at 8.00pm. Adm. 18 Euro /14 Euro Concessionary).
New Dancing Class: ‘Pop Dance
Sensation’ beginning on Thursday 4 March from
7.30pm - 8.30pm in Riversdale Leisure Centre for boys
and girls aged from 5 - 13 years. Adm £5.00 payable
at door.
Parish
Draw 2010
The New Parish
Draw for 2010 got underway on Thursday 25 February 2010.
The winners are as follows:
January
Draw
£500: 1410 Edward O’Reilly - Helen Foster
£250: 1464 Glenda Cullen - Michael McGrath
£250: 1012 Eileen Kelly - Elizabeth O’Hare
£250: 1307 Martin Brolly - Elizabeth Devenney
£150: 1573 Fr. Declan Boland - Sheila McGonagle
£150: 1508 Maureen Duffy - Sheila McGonagle
£150: 1307 Martin Brolly - Elizabeth Devenney
£100: 1002 Eunan Herron - Margaret McLaughlin
£100: 1522 Sheila McGonagle - Sheila McGonagle
£100: 1126 Kathleen Forbes - Georgina Forbes
February Draw
£500: 1626 Pat McGuinness - Frances McLaughlin
£250: 1226 Dessie Gartland - Bridget McCrory
£250: 1306 Bill Doherty - Elizabeth Devenney
£250: 1300 Catherine Quigley - Carol-Ann Stewart
£150: 1547 Michael og Houston - Sheila McGonagle
£150: 1348 Rosemary Conwell - Elizabeth Devenney
£150: 1351 Gemma Wiley - Maureen Hegarty
£100: 1535 Christopher Diver - Sheila McGonagle
£100: 1620 Mary McConway - Frances McLaughlin
£100: 1564 John McKenna - Sheila McGonagle
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