Long
Tower One Hundred
MONSTER
DRAW 2009
1st Prize £20,000
2nd Prize Peugeot 307
3rd Prize Renault Clio
4th Prize £5,000
5th & 6th Prize £3,000 each
7th – 14th Prize £2,000 each
15th – 39th Prize £1,000 each
10 Promoter’s Prizes
of £100 each
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The Long Tower One Hundred is a monster
draw to raise funds for the Centenary of the Long
Tower Church, built in 1909. In 2009 the Long Tower
Church is 100 years old therefore we wish to sell
2009 tickets at a £100 subscription each. There
are 39 prizes (£20,000 plus 2 cars plus 36 great
cash prizes). There will be no more than 2009 tickets
sold, giving each member almost a one in 50 chance
of winning a prize! In addition, each promoter will
have almost a one in 40 chance of winning a prize!
The committee is calling for your collective support
and collecting ability to be put into generous action
over the next number of months. We need members
to buy tickets and we need promoters to sell tickets.
There will be ten promoters’ prizes. To be a
promoter you need to sell a minimum of 5 tickets,
collecting £10 a month from each of your members.
The subscription works out at £2.50 a week for
the 10 months or 27 pence a day over a full year.
To enter the Draw
Members of the committee will be available in the
Sacristy after each Mass today to sign up new members
and for giving out pre-booked tickets.
Programme for the Long Tower
100
Tickets available: Daily
10:00-2:30pm, Parochial House
Pay-in: First Monday
of every month, 7:00-9:00pm, Parochial House
First pay-in night:
Monday 4th August 2008
Final pay-in night: Monday
4th May 2009
All tickets must be paid
in full by: Monday 1st June 2009
Monster Draw (Grand social
night): Friday 19th June 2009
Please!
Please give the parish your enthusiastic support
in this essential fund-raising venture. Furthermore,
the priests of the parish will recite the Divine Office
for the intentions and well-being of all the promoters
and the members every day until the Centenary. Thank
you!
BAPTISMS
BAPTISMS We welcome: Cait Brigid
Devine, 20 Cregglea, Claudy and Cáoidain Jason
Morrison Griffiths, 9 Blighs Gardens, who were both
baptised recently.
DEATHS
We wish to express our deepest
sympathy to the relatives and friends of
Mary Burke, 1 Ardfoyle,
Joyce Mc Gilloway, 34 Ewing Street,
Tony Doherty, 34 Moore Walk,
Emma Lynskey, Culmore Manor and
Tony Martin, 152 Lecky Road who died
recently.
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE
THE ANONYMOUS DONATIONS TO THE LONG TOWER RENOVATION
FUND: £20, £25, £20, £40,
£10, £5, £10, £100, £5,
£50.
FATHER HAMILTON wishes
to acknowledge jubilee donations of £300 and
$50 (Aus) towards the Long Tower.
LAST WEEK’S RENOVATION COLLECTION £
689.00
LAST WEEK’S ENVELOPE COLLECTION £2796.00
VISITATION OF THE HOUSEBOUND
FR MONGAN will visit the sick in his care on Monday
4th and Tuesday 5th August.
THE WEE NUNS’ SAVINGS SCHEME
will be closed until Sunday 24th August.
OLD PHOTOS OF THE LONG TOWER are
needed for the Centenary calendar. We plan to produce
a special edition calendar for 2009 and would like
your help in the project. If you write your name and
address on the back of each photo we will scan them
and ensure that you get them back very soon. Please
bring the photos to the Parochial House.
THE GROTTO IN LECKY ROAD seems to
have been built in 1945. Local memory and newspaper
articles account for it as a tribute to God’s
protection for Derry during the Second World War,
1939 – 1945. It was certainly finished in time
for the great Eucharistic Procession of 9th September
1945. If anyone can trace the exact newspaper article
with photos we would be very grateful. Thank you.
THE FIRST TEXT MESSAGE FROM POPE BENEDICT
to the pilgrims at World Youth Day read: "The
Spirit impels us 4ward 2wards others; the fire of
his love makes us missionaries of God's charity. See
u tomorrow nite – BXVI."
YOUTH 2000 SUMMER YOUTH FESTIVAL
All 16-35 yr olds are invited to attend the Youth
2000 Summer Festival in Clonmacnoise close to Athlone
from Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th August. The festival
is being organised by young people for young people
and will consist of music, drama, key speakers, workshops,
games, prayer and free time for walks or chilling
out. The event is being run on a donation only basis
and there are free buses available. For more information
contact the youth coordinator at 7126 4087 or check
out the website www.youth2000.ie . Free bus from Derry,
leaving the car park of Holy Family Church, Ballymagroarty
on Thursday 14th August at 2.00 pm. Returns Sunday.
MARRIAGE PREPARATION WORKSHOP 26th
and 27th September 2008 in Thornhill Centre, Culmore
Road on Friday from 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm and Saturday
from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. Booking forms available
from the Pastoral Centre, 164 Bishop Street, Tel 7136
2475 or from your local Parochial House.
THE EXTENSION OF THE ABORTION
ACT TO NORTHERN IRELAND
This October British pro-abortion MPs will attempt
to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.
The human cost of the legislation of abortion, virtually
on demand, will be unimaginable for the whole of Ireland.
Please pray that this disaster is averted. Abortion
kills children but also hurts women. Anyone who wants
to fight the introduction of the Abortion Act can
get information on how to help and a free “Little
Feet” badge by contacting the Society for the
Protection of Unborn Children at 2 Veryan Gardens,
Newtownabbey, BT36 7HG or telephone 9077 8018 or email:
Belfast@spuc.org.uk
THE BINGO IS ON HOLIDAYS for two
weeks. The bingo will resume on Sunday 17th August.
Thank you for all your support.
MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS Margaret
Keys Productions will be holding Musical Theatre Workshops
(singing, drama and dance) from 18th to 22nd August
in St Columb’s Hall. For more details contact:
7126 8533 or 7126 8027.
CONGRATULATIONS to
John and Mary Carlin of 9 Iona Park who celebrate
their 40th anniversary of marriage today. We wish
them God’s finest blessings.
FOUND Set of keys recently found
in Abercorn Road area. Contact the Parochial House.
CARE ASSISTANTS FOR DAY AND NIGHT DUTY required
for Nazareth House. Some experience in a caring setting
is desirable. Please apply in writing to the Secretary,
Nazareth House, 174 Bishop Street, Derry, BT48 6UN.
NORTH WEST REGIONAL COLLEGE in Derry,
Limavady and Strabane is offering an exciting range
of full time and part time courses, commencing this
September. Places are still available and enrolments
are now open. Text NWRC to 86122, Tel 028 7127 6000
or, visit www.nwrc.ac.uk
THE BIG KNIT 2008 calling all Knitters
we need your help, if you would like to take part
in the Big Knit by knitting little woolly hats please
contact Age Concern on 028 9024 5729. You will help
raise vital funds for Age Concern Northern Ireland.
Age Concern Northern Ireland will receive approximately
50p for each completed woolly hat. All hats to be
returned to Amy Gregg at Age Concern Northern Ireland,
3 Lower Crescent, Belfast, BT7 1NR, Tel 0289 0245
729 by the 1st October 2008.
SUICIDAL?
Counselling available
at ZEST, 15 Queen Street, 7126 6999.
P.S.
‘If people want to have hope and find meaning
in their lives, they need to take God out of the "parentheses".
(Pope Benedict XVI)
