Sunday
26th April 2009
Third
Sunday of Easter
Our
advocate with the Father
Jesus said:
“You are witnesses
of all I have said.”
Over the past few years we
have become very aware of
the human frailty of the Church,
often to the point of keeping
our heads down and hoping
that it will all go away.
And we have good reasons for
being ashamed and afraid and
even at times resentful. But
we also have a great responsibility
to witness boldly to Jesus
who has risen from the dead
and is alive in us and in
his Church. We do this, not
so much by preaching, as by
how we live our lives in joy
and hope and love. Our families,
our community and our society
badly need the witness of
people who are happy, content,
forgiving, thoughtful, prayerful,
caring. If we work at it together
we can make a difference.
That’s our call this
week as husbands and wives,
parents and children, and
as a community of faith.
Fr.
Johnny Doherty, C.Ss.R.
Risen Lord Jesus,
As Mary Magdalene met you
in the garden
on the morning of your resurrection,
so may
we meet you today and every day.
Speak to us as you spoke to
her,
reveal yourself as the living Lord,
renew our hope and kindle our joy.
Send us to share the Good
news with others.
Sunday, 26th April, 2009
3rd Sunday of Easter
First Reading Acts of the
Apostles 3: 13-15.17-19
This reading is an early explanation
of the Passion and an example of
the early witness to the resurrection.
Second Reading John 2:
1-5
We show that we know God by keeping
his commandments. But when we fail,
Christ intercedes for us with the
Father.
Gospel Luke 24: 35-48
Jesus appears to the apostles, and
commissions them to preach the Gospel
to all nations.
Masses during
the coming week
Monday &
Tuesday 10.00 am
Thursday
& Friday 10.00am
Weekend
Masses:
Vigil Mass
Saturday evening 8.00 pm
Sunday morning 9.00 am & 11.00
am
Confession Times:
Thursday
morning after 10.00am Mass
Saturday Evening after Vigil Mass
Mass Intentions
for this week:
Monday -
10.00am - Anv. Mass Johnny Harvey
Tuesday - 10.00am - Anv. Mass Elizabeth
McGoldrick
Saturday - 8.00 pm - Months Mind
Mass Mary McShane
This Week’s
Calendar
Monday 27 - Third week of Easter
Tuesday 28
- Third week of Easter
Wednesday
29 - St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin
and Doctor of the Church
Thursday
30 - Third week of Easter
Friday 1
- Second week of Easter
Saturday
2 - Third week of Easter
Each day in the Derry Diocese
we are asked to pray for our priests
named on that particular day.
THIS WEEK WE PRAY FOR:
Fr. David
O’Kane
Fr. Patrick
O’Kane
Fr. Peter
O’Kane
Fr. Seamus
O’Kane
Fr. Arthur
O’Reilly
Fr. Kieran
Page
Fr. Desmond
Polke
Weekly
Church Collection Last week’s
collection totalled: £1189.50
DANCE
In Garvagh
Hall Friday 1st.
May Music
by Glenside Country
ST.DAVOG’S
CLUB NOTES
Lotto numbers
drawn were 6,11,20,23,32.
There was no jack pot winner, winner
of the £100 was Marian Mc
Grath.
Senior and reserve teams both lost
to Coalisland last Sunday.
Seniors and reserves play Trillick
away on Sunday. Reserves 2:15pm
and seniors 3:45pm
Minor boys beat Clan na Gael away
in the league on a score line of
2-11 to 2-8
Minor boys beat Trillick on Wednesday
evening, 1-12 to 1-8 in the preliminary
round of the Championship.
Training for under 10's will continue
on Mondays at 6:30pm
Minor and juvenile training continues
every Tuesday and Friday at 8:00pm
Girls Under
14 girls play away to Newtownstewart
on Monday.
Under 12 girls have a home match
on Wednesday.
SPECIAL DIOCESAN
MASS
The Annual
Diocesan Mass for those with special
needs will take place in St. Joseph’s
Church, Galliagh on Saturday 9th
May 2009 at the new time of 4.00pm.
Bishop Hegarty will celebrate the
Mass and everyone will be most welcome
St Caireall's P.S.
Anyone wishing
to avail of the bus going to the
Belfast Marathon on Monday 4th May
'09 should contact the school on
81671704 no later than Tuesday 28th
April. The bus will leave Aghyaran
Centre at 5.00am
Altar Society
for May 2009
Helen Connolly,
Eileen McAleer Mary McHugh Rosemary
Connolly
Church Door & Car Park
Attendants May 2009
Sat.
Night Mickey Shields, Phil
O’Carolan & Charlie McGlinchey
Sunday 9.00 am
John Travers, John Gallen &
Denis Dolan
Sunday 11.00 am
Sean McHugh, Hugh Kelly & Paddy
O’Donnell
Church Readers
for the month of May 2009
Vigil Mass
8.00 pm Sat. Andy Dolan
Sunday 9.00 am Ciara McGuire
Sunday 11.00 am George M. Sproule
If
you are unable to attend do try
and get another reader to cover
for you.
Questions
people ask
Q. What is baptism of desire? Can
I apply baptism of desire to my
grandchildren who have not been
baptised?
A. Baptism
of desire refers to the salvation
of people who died without being
baptised with water but whose desire
for Christ was implicit in the way
they lived according to the principles
of Christian morality. Your desire
for your grandchildren does not
mean they are baptised but it is
a prayer to God that they will one
day come to know Jesus and accept
him into their lives. A prayer made
with great love will surely be answered.
The
Deep End - In The Wounds
In A Risen Christ in Eastertime,
Raymond E. Brown writes: Today disbelief
flows from many factors including
unconvincing signs, e.g., the proclamation
of Christ by some who scarcely resemble
him.’ Resembling Christ means
having wounds and showing them.
Not something most of us would want
to have, or wish to do. You’d
think that the Risen Christ would
use something else to dispel the
doubts of the disciples in today’s
Gospel reading (Luke 24:35-48).
He uses the breaking of bread to
open the minds of two disciples
travelling to Emmaus. Now he uses
his wounds to quell the doubts of
others. Even his startling and sudden
appearance among them isn’t
enough to rid them of doubt. But
in his wounds they recognise him.
Needless to say, þthese aren’t
any old wounds. They are the wounds
the world inflicts on those who
love God above all else. They are
the wounds of those who proclaim
God’s truth even when it threatens
powerful vested interests. They
are the wounds of those who live
for others more than for themselves.
They are the wounds of those who
don’t count cost. They are
wounds that once accepted are healed
and become a source of health for
others. We carry them with us in
life, but they carry us into eternity.
Resembling Jesus means facing the
foe within our own gilded Gethsemanes;
forgiving the tormentors who crucify
us daily on our petty Golgothas;
defeating the demons of our imaginings
in the wilderness of our making;
and in the longings of a lonely
heart in prayer before God.
University of Ulster
Choir
The
acclaimed University of Ulster Choir,
under the direction of Shaun Ryan,
will perform a concert at St Patrick’s
Church, Buncrana Rd, Pennyburn,
on Tuesday 28th April at 8pm. The
programme includes a specially commissioned
setting of Robbie Burns’ My
love is like a red, red rose , John
Rutter’s folksong cycle The
Sprig of Thyme and the hauntingly
beautiful Lux Aeterna by Morten
Lauridsen. Admission is free (with
an optional retiring collection)
and everyone is warmly invited to
attend.
