We Gratefully Acknowledge
The Anonymous Donations To The General Renovation
Fund: £20, £10, £10, £10,
£5, £25, £10.
LAST WEEK’S ENVELOPE COLLECTION £2183.00
LAST WEEK’S RENOVATION COLLECTION £ 512.00
BAPTISMS
We welcome:
Ben Crawley, 22 Lisfannon Park,
Clodagh Radcliffe, 155 Kylemore Park,
Joseph Wilson, 13 Nicholson Terrace
Shane Fisher, Newtonards, who were
all baptised recently.
DEATHS
We wish to express our deepest sympathy to the relatives
and friends of
Susie Murphy, 36 Cable Street, who
died recently.
MASS BOUQUET ASSOCIATION
We are about to launch a Long Tower Mass Bouquet Association,
that is, a card and weekly Mass to be offered for
the LIVING. It will be suitable to give to someone
who is sick or someone praying for a particular intention
or as a birthday gift or indeed just for a person’s
well-being.
8am Mass every Friday: The
Requiem Mass Association has been in operation since
1860 and is as popular as ever. The Friday evening
Mass is offered every week for its deceased members.
The people enrolled in this new Association will all
be living members and the 8 o’clock Mass will
be offered for them every Friday morning. As with
the Mass for the dead, the Mass for the living will
be offered for one year for ALL those who have been
enrolled and NO particular names will be read out.
This means that the 8am Mass on Fridays will not be
available for any other intentions, such as anniversaries.
Cost: Like the Requiem Mass
Association, the cost will be £2 for the card
and the twelve month enrolment. The cards will be
available from the Sacristy and the Parochial House.
We hope it will be a major source of income for the
renovation fund in the parish.
Launch: We plan to launch
the Mass Bouquet Association NEXT Sunday, 11th November,
the feast of St Martin of Tours. St Columba chose
St Martin as one of his patrons and there is a shrine
to St Martin in St Patrick’s aisle of Long Tower
Church.
Thanks: Our sincere gratitude
goes to Eugene Quigley and the Restoration Committee
for putting such dedicated work into producing the
lovely card. We hope you like it and avail of it as
a new Long Tower initiative in preparation for the
centenary of the church in 2009.
You are Invited to Our Novena to Our Lady
of Perpetual Succour In St Columba’s Church,
Long Tower
The Novena continues this Sunday at 6.00
pm and will continue every Sunday leading up to Christmas.
Devotions will take the form of Rosary, a short talk
given by a guest speaker, novena prayers and benediction.
VISITATION OF THE HOUSEBOUND
Father Mongan will visit the sick in his care on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday,
5th/ 6th/ 7th in the following areas:
Monday 5th Nov St Columb’s Wells, Westland
Street, Meenan Drive, Meenan Square, Drumcliffe Avenue,
Abbots Walk, Cable Street, Durrow Park, Lisfannon
Park.
Tuesday 6th Nov Maureen Avenue, Ivy Terrace,
Lower Bennett Street, Belview Avenue, Mary Street,
Moat Street, Abercorn Road, Abercorn Place, Sunbeam
Terrace, Corporation Street, Barrack Street, Cooke
Street, Windmill Terrace, Charlotte Street, The Metropole
Wednesday 7th Nov Long Tower Court.
NEW ALTAR SERVERS are being recruited
at this time. We welcome children from P5 and P6 to
begin training. Training takes place twice a week
for a couple of months (Monday and Wednesday from
3.00 pm to 3.45 pm), beginning Wednesday, 7th November.
We encourage parents to attend the practices too.
Please call to the sacristy for an application form.
NEW EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS will be
commissioned at the 6.00 pm Vigil Mass on Saturday,
10th November.
150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE APPARITIONS AT LOURDES
The Derry Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes from 16th
to 21st July 2008. Fare £449.00 Stg. Special
booking forms for pilgrims who are sick or in need
of help are available from the Pilgrimage Office on
Thursdays from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and Saturdays from
11.00 am to 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.
Lasco Lotto
Numbers Drawn - 3, 12, 22, 23.
No Jackpot Winner. 3 £10 Winners. Next Weeks
Jackpot £2,800.
Anyone wishing to join please contact LASCO 028 7137
4443
CALLING ALL PAST PUPILS AND
FRIENDS 6 week netball course begins 7th
November, from 7.30 pm in St Cecilia’s College.
Please contact the school on 7128 1800.
ST COLUMB’S COLLEGE UNION
The Annual General Meeting will take place in the
College on Thursday, 8th November 2007. Mass for the
repose of the souls of deceased members and past-pupils
and staff will be celebrated in the Oratory at 7.30pm.
The meeting will take place immediately afterwards.
Members are warmly encouraged to attend.
MASS FOR BLESSED ALEXANDRINA will
take place in Termonbacca on Sunday 11th November
at 7.30 pm. Everyone welcome.
OLIVE DAWSON will be speaking in
Doneyloop Parish after 7.30 pm Mass on Wednesday 7th
November. Olive lives on the Eucharist only.
THORNHILL 75TH ANNIVERSARY
The College presents ‘Honk’ on 13th/14th/15th
November in the Assembly Hall at 7.30 pm. Please contact
the school office on 7135 5800.
