CONFESSIONS
Sunday 6.00pm (today) Long Tower Church
Monday 7.30pm Holy Family Church,
Ballymagroarty
Tuesday 7.30pm St Mary’s Church,
Creggan
Saturday 11.30am – 6.00pm St
Eugene’s Cathedral
Other Confessions (in Long Tower):
Mon., Tues. & Spy Wednesday 7.00pm – 7.25pm
Good Friday 11.30am – 1.00pm & 8.00pm –
9.00pm
Holy Saturday 11.30am – 1.00pm
CEREMONIES
Holy Thursday 10.00am Mass
of Chrism (St Eugene’s Cathedral)
Please note: NO morning Mass in parishes.
3.00pm Unveiling of restored large Crucifix
7.30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Adoration at the Altar of Repose
11.30pm Rosary and Night Prayer
Good Friday (Day of Fast and
Abstinence)
10.00am Morning Prayer
3.00pm Ceremony of the Passion
7.30pm Stations of the Cross
Holy Saturday 10.00am Morning
Prayer
9.00pm Easter Vigil (No 6.00pm Vigil Mass)
PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE NO MASSES CELEBRATED
IN THE CHURCH FROM HOLY THURSDAY EVENING UNTIL THE
EASTER VIGIL AT 9.00 PM.
TROCAIRE BOXES should
be returned to the church during the Holy Week ceremonies.
BAPTISMS
We welcome: Kane Gurney, 243 Victoria
Road and Fionn Colmcille McNally, 12 Burnside Manor,
who were both baptised recently.
REQUIESCANT IN PACE
We extend our sincere sympathy to
the family and friends of
Siobhan Travers,
28 Aberfoyle Crescent,
Nora Creighton, Leicester
and
Eddie Ryan, 7 Upper
Bennett Street. May they rest in peace.
PARISH COLLECTION ENVELOPES have
been distributed throughout the parish. Anyone from
outside the parish who received collection envelopes
in previous years should call at the Sacristy. If
you haven’t received a box of collection envelopes
and would like to, please call at either the Sacristy
or the Parochial House.
ST JOSEPH’S YOUNG PRIESTS SOCIETY monthly
meeting takes place on Monday 6th April at 8.30 pm.
All welcome.
THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THE DIVINE MERCY IMAGE
takes place in two weeks time, on Sunday
19th April at 3pm in Long Tower to celebrate the Feast
of God’s Mercy. Saint Faustina of Poland received
apparitions of Christ in the 1930s in which He asked
her to have His Image painted and venerated throughout
the world. Christ also revealed to her that He wished
the Sunday after Easter to be the Feast of God’s
Mercy – Divine Mercy Sunday.
What is so significant
about the Novena and the Feast?
The Feast of Divine Mercy is like a second baptism.
Jesus told St Faustina that going to Communion on
Divine Mercy Sunday grants ‘complete forgiveness
of sins and punishment’ (Diary, Notebook II,
p. 286, par. 699, no.138) for those who have gone
to Confession (even during Lent). That means that
a soul who had sincerely fulfilled the requirements
of the Feast of Mercy and died after receiving Communion
on that Sunday would go straight to Heaven, without
any time in Purgatory, regardless of past life. God
is offering us the equivalent of a new baptism on
Mercy Sunday every year!
In preparation for this great feast, we will pray
the Novena each day at 9.30am and 7.00 pm, beginning
on Good Friday. The leaflets will be available in
the church. If you cannot attend each morning you
might like to do the prayers at home.
A Present for Easter
The photographic print of the restored opus sectile
would make an ideal present for Easter. The opus has
been recently restored and the experts say it is a
masterpiece, an extremely rare work of art. Pictures
of these three grand panels behind the high altar
– the Ascension of Christ flanked by St Peter
and St Paul – are now on sale.
The restoration project is costing over £20,000.
To help us fund the restoration we are selling prints.
The mounted pictures are available for purchase from
the Long Tower Church and the Parochial House. Cost:
£19.95 or £45. Please buy one.
It can be your own memento of the 100th year of Long
Tower. The proceeds go towards the cost of the repairs
and the general restoration of the Long Tower.
COURSE IN THE THORNHILL CENTRE
WHO IS ST PAUL? This 4-week very
successful course on St Paul is being repeated due
to high demand. It gives a wonderful insight into
various aspects of Paul. Course held in Thornhill
Centre on the Mondays of May beginning 4 May from
7.30 to 9.30 pm. Cost: £30 (payable in instalments).
WORKING WITH DREAMS An exploration
of the Dream World from the Christian Perspective
begins Thursday 23 April from 7.30 to 9.00pm.
POETRY WORKSHOP These Wednesday
Workshops, led by Mary Murphy, will examine poetry
and help develop poetic techniques as an aid to writing
poetry. Dates: 22 April, 6 & 20 May & 3 June
2009. Venue: Thornhill Centre. Time: 7.30 to 9.30
pm. Cost: £5 per night.
For more details phone
the Thornhill Centre on 7135 1233.
BINGO
ST COLUMB’S HALL– EVERY SUNDAY
AT 8.30 PM
LAST WEEK’S RENOVATION
COLLECTION £ 589.00
LAST WEEK’S ENVELOPE
COLLECTION £1831.00
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE
THE FOLLOWING ANONYMOUS DONATIONS TO THE LONG TOWER
RENOVATION FUND: £20, £5, £20, £5,
£10, £20, £5, £20, £50,
£100, £25, £100, £50.
SEALING OF PORCHES FROM RAIN
– Each of the porches is taking in rain-water.
The effect is that the paint is coming off and the
plaster then disintegrates. There is some damage to
the ceilings also, especially in the stairwells at
the main door. We have made several attempts to repair
the plaster over the years but the problem persists.
Therefore, over the next number of weeks we will be
repairing the roofs of the porches, one at a time.
We apologise for the scaffolding. The western gable
and copings are now complete and water-tight. Thank
you for your generosity and patience.
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)
