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
We welcome: Kate Elizabeth Ruane,
43 Summer Avenue, New York, Fionn Colmcille O’Neill,
8 Moat Street, Jack Aaron Coyle, 51 Ardgrange, Marcus
Sinclair Ivan Rule, 3 Springham Park and Eva Lily
Wray, 6 Thistlewood Park, Foylesprings, who were
all baptised recently.
DEATHS
We wish to express our deepest sympathy to the relatives
and friends of
Joyce Mc Gilloway, 34 Ewing Street,
Mary Burke, 42 Ashcroft, Waterside
and
Christina Coyle, 22 Lower Bennett
Street, who all died recently.
READERS ST JOHN’S TEAM AND EUCHARISTIC
MINISTERS TEAM B will serve for the month
of August, beginning on Friday.
WEE NUNS’ SAVINGS SCHEME
will be closed until Sunday 24th August.
FIRST FRIDAY Friday
1st August is the 1st Friday of the month.
VISITATION OF THE HOUSEBOUND
FR COLHOUN will visit the sick in
his care on Thursday/Friday, 31st July/1st August.
FR MONGAN will visit the sick in his care on Monday
4th and Tuesday 5th August.
ROSARY FOR THE HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY
will be held on Sunday 3rd August in St Brigid’s
Church, Carnhill at 5.00pm. Everyone welcome.
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. Thank
you.
DO YOU KNOW what
age Our Lady’s Grotto in Lecky Road is? We would
like to find out what year it was built. Local memory
puts it in the later 1940s but it would be helpful
to have an exact date. Can anyone tell us where it
is recorded or if there is any written record of it?
Perhaps someone would be kind enough to do some newspaper
research to ascertain dates or even locate dated photographs.
Thank you.
PLEASE PRAY for all the couples
getting married this year. They are in preparation
for a God-given vocation and need God’s help
to prepare well and sustain the commitment they are
making. Congratulations to those who have already
celebrated the sacrament.
THANKS to the musicians
and singers who are voluntarily giving their time
and talent to serve the serve the liturgy during the
summer. We are very grateful.
MASS FOR ALEXANDRINA MARIA DA COSTA
will be held in Termonbacca on Sunday 27th July at
7.30 pm.
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:
028 7126 8533 or 028 7126 8027.
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
or to book a place on the bus contact the youth coordinator
at 7126 4087 or check out the website www.youth2000.ie
THE SISTERS OF ST JOHN would like
to invite you to 3 spiritual conferences preached
by Fr Gregoire of the Brothers of St John on 3rd and
4th August at 8.00 pm at Termonbacca, and 5th August
at 8.00 pm at Waterside Parish Hall, Chapel Road.
Fr Gregoire will then lead a pilgrimage to Knock from
6th to 8th August. All pilgrims are responsible for
their own accommodation, meals and transport. All
children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
For further information or to register a place on
the pilgrimage please contact the Sisters on 7135
3414.
LAST WEEK’S RENOVATION COLLECTION £
570.00
LAST WEEK’S ENVELOPE
COLLECTION £1808.00
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE
THE ANONYMOUS DONATIONS TO THE LONG TOWER RENOVATION
FUND: £20, £10, £5, £5, £20,
£10, €35.
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)
