REQUIESCANT IN PACE
We extend our sincere sympathy
to the family and friends of
Mary (Mura) Dunlop,
Culmore Manor and
Colleen McColgan,
198 Bishop Street. May they rest in peace.
BAPTISMS
We welcome: Cadie Leigh Doherty,
12 Glenbank Park, Conan Joseph Moore, Garshuey, Killea,
Dean Anthony McLaughlin, 23 Northland Avenue, Jada
Elizabeth Kelly, 14 Rosskeen Park and Carragh Ann-Marie
McSheffrey, 7 Cable Street, who were all baptised
recently.
VISITATION TEAM 2009 – We hope
to establish a team of parishioners who will take
part in an outreach programme for the centenary. The
goal is to prepare a group of twelve “disciples”
who will dedicate one night a week for twelve weeks
to knock on doors and invite people to come to Mass.
We will have a few preparatory sessions so that you
know what to say and do and then we will commission
the team. Exciting! Could you offer yourself to serve
God for this targeted project? We will be recruiting
very soon.
YOUTH 2000 RETREAT Friday 20th –
Sunday 22 February. This is a fantastic chance to
make new joyful friends, to pray and to grow in faith,
while having loads of fun! Location is Termonbacca,
limited amount of beds available. Check out www.youth2000.ie
for info /updates and online booking. Bring a sleeping
bag and pillow – just in case! U18s must have
signed consent on booking forms. Contact Natasha 077-9142
0037 or Aisling 00-353-87-2282 376.
MASS IN HONOUR OF BLESSED ALEXANDRINA MARIA DA COSTA
will take place on Sunday 25th January at 7.30pm in
Termonbacca. All welcome.
FIFTY-SIXTH WORLD LEPROSY DAY – SUNDAY
25TH JANUARY The annual celebration of the
‘World Leprosy Day’ is a great appointment
of solidarity with our brothers and sisters who are
afflicted by Hansen’s disease that is often
ignored by the mass media but which still today strikes
each year over 250,000 people, most of whom live in
conditions of poverty. According to the most recent
calculations of the World Health Organisation, which
refer to the year 2007, in that year there were 254,525
new leprosy cases, with 212,802 people already being
treated for it. It is good and comforting to observe
that in this struggle against Hansen’s disease,
non-governmental associations and organisations are
present that go beyond religious, ideological and
cultural affiliations, all of which meet each other
in the common goal of bringing to those who are sick
the opportunity of regaining a state of social, health-care,
and spiritual wellbeing.
BIG WINTER BINGO
ST MARY’S PARISH HALL
SUNDAY 25TH JANUARY 2009 AT 8.30 PM
Proposed Payout in Last House
£1000
A VOCATIONS INFORMATION DAY takes
place on Saturday 14th February from 11.00 am to 4.00
pm in Thornhill Retreat Centre. For more information
please contact Fr Paul Farren on 7126 4087 or Fr Colm
O’Doherty on 8166 1475.
WORLD DAY OF THE SICK – 11 FEBRUARY
2009
In his message of last year, Pope Benedict XVI strongly
called for a celebration of the World Day of the Sick
throughout the Church and observed: ‘I invite
the diocesan and parish communities to celebrate the
World Day of the Sick’. We hope to incorporate
our monthly celebration of the Centenary Year with
the World Day of the Sick next month on 11th February.
More details later.
SR JOSEPHINE WALSH WEEKEND RETREAT
with emphasis on forgiving, healing and making a new
start, will take place at The Carmelite Retreat Centre,
Termonbacca from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th February.
For further details tel: Derry 71262512 during office
hours only.
SCHOOL OPEN
DAY/NIGHTS
LUMEN CHRISTI COLLEGE OPEN DAY will
take place on Sunday 8 February 2009 in the College
in Bishop Street. The College Principal, Mr P. O’Doherty,
will address P7 pupils and their parents at 3.00 pm
or 4.00 pm. Visitors will be given a short guided
tour of the College by current pupils. Light refreshments
will be available in the Canteen. Further information
is available on the College website: www.lumenchristicollege.co.uk
THORNHILL COLLEGE Open day for parents
and perspective students transferring in September
2009 on Tuesday 27th January from 4.00 pm to 6.30
pm. Talk by Principal at 4.15 pm and 5.15 pm. There
is a further opportunity to visit the school on Wednesday
28th January from 10.00 am to 12 noon. Prospective
Year 13 students are also welcome to come along and
discuss A-level or Applied GCSE courses.
ST COLUMB’S COLLEGE Open Night
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 from 7.00 pm to 9.30 pm.
Principal’s address at 7.00 pm and 8.15 pm.
ORGAN SCHOLAR – ST EUGENE’S CATHEDRAL
Applications are invited for the above
position. Applicants must be:
- aged between 11 and 16
years;
- have reached Grade VII standard on the piano;
- have demonstrated an interest in Church music and
- have been a member of a choir.
Duties of the Organ Scholar include playing at the
weekend Services i.e. Sunday Masses; on St Patrick’s
Day; Concelebrated Mass for All Souls, Easter and
Christmas Ceremonies. The Organ Scholar will also
be required to provide music at Services such as the
Parish Novenas and other occasions when the Director
of Music makes a request. He/She will receive organ
tuition at the Cathedral’s expense and will
have access to the Cathedral organ(s). Applications
in writing only enclosing a stamped addressed envelope
to the Director of Music, St Eugene’s Cathedral,
Francis Street, Derry, BT48 9AP giving relevant details
about musical experience, qualifications and interests
to arrive not later than Wednesday, 11 February 2009.
BINGO in AOH, Foyle Street on Thursdays. All
welcome.
LAST WEEK’S ENVELOPE COLLECTION
£1937.00
LAST WEEK’S RENOVATION COLLECTION £ 461.00
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE ANONYMOUS DONATIONS
TO THE RESTORATION FUND: £10, £5, £20,
£20, £20, £200.
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)
