You are Invited to Our
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
In St Columba’s Church, Long Tower
The annual Novena continues on Sunday at 6.00 pm.
FAMILY ROSARY PROMOTION
will begin next week, on the first Sunday of Advent.
BAPTISMS
We welcome: Shane Holmes, 25 Belview
Ave, James Coyle, 67 Barrs Lane, Shay Clarke, Glengormley,
Finnian Devine, 1 Olive Terrace, Olivia Doherty, 2
Limewood Street, Calum Tabb, 4 Mount Vernon, Eoin
Wilson, 3 Glenwood, who were all baptised recently.
MONSTER DRAW FOR THE CENTENARY
***LESS THAN 50 TICKETS REMAINING***
What do you buy the person who has
everything?
One of the last few tickets in the Long
Tower Monster Draw
Not only will you be giving someone
almost a 1 in 50 chance of a great prize but you will
be
donating to the restoration of St Columba’s
Church, Long Tower in its 100th year.
Members of the committee will be available
in the Sacristy after each Mass today
to sign up new members.
Tickets available: Daily, 10.00 am to 2.30 pm in the
Parochial House.
PIONEER ASSOCIATION
We would like to congratulate everyone who received
gold and silver pioneer pins and those who received
the pin for the first time. Their commitment to abstain
from alcohol is a powerful, spiritual way of supporting
those who have an alcoholic addiction and praying
that they will find a way out of this vicious cycle.
Anyone who would like to join the Pioneer Association
can do so in the sacristy after the Vigil Mass any
Saturday evening throughout the year.
VISITATION OF THE HOUSEBOUND
– by Fr Colhoun
Mass in Alexander House will be offered for the
dead on Tuesday (25th November) at 11.30 am. Fr Colhoun
will visit the sick in his care on Thursday and Friday,
27th and 28th November.
THE MARIAN MOVEMENT cenacle (Rosary,
etc.) takes place on Thursday, 27th November at 6.30pm
in Long Tower. The Movement was founded by Fr Gobbi
in Fatima in 1972 as a result of messages (internal
locutions) given to him by Our Lady. All welcome.
CEREMONY OF COMMITMENT for
P7 children (and their families) of the Long Tower
Primary School will take place on Thursday, 27th November
at the evening Mass (7.30pm).
BUILDING ST CECILIA'S COLLEGE,
BLIGH'S LANE – PHASE 1
We are pleased to announce the imminent
commencement of construction of Phase 1 of our new
school on Bligh's Lane. The build should be complete
for our new 2010 intake and we are looking forward
to bringing St Cecilia's back home. In the meantime
we would like to apologise for any inconvenience.
CENTENARY CALENDAR a special edition
of the 2009 Centenary calendar is on sale. The calendar
contains a unique collection of rarely seen photographs,
covering the history of the Long Tower Church from
the early 1800s to the present day. This calendar
will make a unique gift and also become a collector’s
item. Price £6.99. The committee would like
to thank all those who supplied photographs for this
and for further publications.
CHRISTMAS CARDS
The Long Tower Christmas card is one of our fund-raising
initiatives for the centenary of the church in 2009.
We have many restoration projects in view and all
money raised from the cards will go to this cause.
We are very grateful to the Restoration and Projects
Committee for their hard work and to all of you for
your constant support.
Features: Beautiful photos of the Long Tower windows
with a message of peace. Price: £3.99 for a
pack of 12 assorted cards. Request: We need many distributors
to help us sell the cards. Could you help us? Could
you take, for example, ten packs of cards to sell
to your friends or relatives? And then bring the proceeds
to the Parochial House? If you could do so, please
give your name, address and phone number to the committee
in the back corridor of the Sacristy after any of
the Masses. Alternatively, ring Charlie or Moira Doherty
at 7126 6808. Thank you.
The Advent calendar boxes can be collected from Long
Tower today and can be returned at the end of December.
FOYLE WOMEN’S AID SECRET GARDEN
are delighted to announce that they are through to
the final of the Big Lottery Peoples Millions UTV
live phone vote on Tuesday 25th November. On that
day two projects will go head to head on UTV appealing
for the public vote. We need your support to ensure
we receive enough votes to secure £50,000 of
lottery funding. They will use this money to create
a Secret Garden in the grounds of their refuge. They
are the only residential service in the North West
addressing domestic violence. 1 in 4 women experience
domestic violence and we know children are often the
forgotten victims. Please help them bring lottery
funding to the North West. Calls cost 10p from land-lines
and people can call 10 times from any one number.
One pound is a small price to pay for the benefits
it will accrue and the difference it will make in
the lives of women and children suffering domestic
violence. The phone number will be released on the
morning of the 25th November in The Daily Mirror.
It will also be featured on UTV Live that night and
they will broadcast the number. The lines are open
from 9am until midnight on the 25th November. To stand
a chance of winning they need everyone to vote the
maximum TEN times. So please Vote Early and Vote Often.
Vote for Maydown Play Project on November 24th.
“If we don’t
stand up for children, we don’t stand for much.”
KNIGHTS OF ST COLUMBANUS (CK5) DECEASED MEMBERS
MASS will take place on Wednesday 26th November
at 7.30 pm in St Brigid’s Church, Carnhill.
PRECIOUS LIFE are holding a Candle
Light Rosary Procession on Sunday 7th December 2008
assembling at the Guildhall at 4.30 pm in honour of
the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady
8th December and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
– 12th December. All are welcome to attend.
LAST WEEK’S RENOVATION
COLLECTION £622.00
LAST WEEK’S ENVELOPE
COLLECTION £2083.00
WE GRATEFULY ACKNOWLEDGE THE
ANONYMOUS DONATIONS TO THE LONG TOWER RENOVATION FUND:
£10, £20, £20, £20, £10,
£5.
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)
