Buncrana Parish Newsletter
Sunday, 22nd April 2018 | 4th Sunday of Easter
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Fr Bradley 9363455 | Fr Walsh 9361393 | Parish Office 9361253
Parish Office Opening Times | Mon - Thur: 9.30 am - 5.00pm | Friday: 9.30 am - 4.00pm
Priest on Call 0749361253
Masses
St. Mary’s Oratory
Mon 23rd Neil & Bridget Porter
Tue 24th Pat Doherty
Wed 25th DDS Mass
Thurs 26th Bernard Doherty
Fri 27th Johnny McNutt (1st A)
Sat 28th John Joe McDaid (1st A)
St. Mary’s Cockhill
Mon 23rd For the unborn child and protection of the 8th Amendment
Tues 24th Mark Friel
Wed 25th Denis Eccles
Fri 27th Rose Coyle
Sat 28th Nathan Dixon Gill (1st A) & Nathan Farrell (1st A)
Star of the Sea
Thurs 26th Kitty McLaughlin (MM)
Sunday Mass Times
St Mary’s Oratory, Buncrana
Vigil at 6pm (Saturday)
9am & 12.30pm (Sunday
St Mary’s Church Cockhill
Vigil at 7.30pm (Saturday)
11am (Sunday)
Star of the Sea, Desertegney
10am (Sunday)
Deaths
Your Prayers are asked for
Doreen Porter,
Eithne Fullerton &
Oliver Bradley
who died recently and for their family & friends saddened by their
loss.
Cursillo Group
Cursillo Meeting will be held on Monday 23rd April at 8pm, in St Teresa's
Room, for details contact Mickey 0863267443
Scripture Prayer
Scripture Prayer group meet every Thursday evening from 7-8pm in St
Teresa’s Room for music, scripture, quiet meditation & prayer, sharing prayers
of intentions also visit www.pray-as-you-go.org.
Rosary for Priests
Please come and join us in our Rosary to pray for vocations to the Priesthood
and Religious life. Three Rosaries are prayed each Tuesday between 1pm & 2pm
in the Adoration Chapel, everyone welcome.
Men’s Afternoon Retreat in Donegal led by Fr Neal Carlin at St Anthony’s Retreat Centre. Dundrain,
Burnfoot, Donegal on Saturday 28th April at 2pm and ending with Holy Mass at 6.30pm.
Phone 074 93 68370 (00353 7493 68370 from NI) Please phone to book your place
Readings for 4th Sunday of Easter - Good shepherd Sunday (a day of prayer for vocations)
Acts 4:8-12. ‘By the name of Jesus, ‘God saves’, Peter had just healed a cripple
at the gate of the temple. He and John are arrested by the Jewish authorities and
brought before the Sanhedrin. Peter preaches how God has turned everything upside-down;
Jesus, rejected by the religious authorities, has become the keystone’. The keystone
of an arch (top centre) completes and stabilizes it. Outside of Jesus no one can
be saved.
Ps 117. ‘It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.’
1 Jn 3:1-2. You could spend a lifetime pondering this statement from St John “the
disciple that Jesus loved”: “….. we shall be like him (God) because we shall see
him as he really is.” To properly know a person requires an affinity or likeness
to the one known.
Jn 10:11-18. This heartfelt speech is placed after Jesus’ run-in with the “blind”
Pharisees over his cure of the man blind from birth. It plumbs the depth of commitment
of the Good Shepherd to the welfare of his sheep. Also his mysterious acceptance
by some and rejection by others: “I know my own and my own know me….” Our priests
dispense the sacraments ‘in persona Christi’.
Thornhill Ministries, Thornhill House, 121 Culmore Road, Derry
Celebration of Friendship: Thornhill House is hosting
a few hours on Monday 14 May, where friends can come together to give gratitude
for friendships shared. Arrival time is 11:30 am for 12:00 noon. Gratitude Prayer
and Celebration Lunch. Cost is £20. Pre-booking essential.
May Day Retreat – “The Seed and the Soil (III)”: Fr Paschal McDonnell
leads this Retreat Day, helping us embrace our truth. We hold, with reverence, our
family and other relationships in the context of seeking integration. The day will
include a Celebration of Eucharist. Date: Tuesday 1 May. Time: 9:45 am to 2:30 pm.
Suggested Offering is £20.
Rosary on the Coast for Life & Faith
The next ‘Rosary on the Coast’ event for life
and faith and to keep the Eighth Amendment will be held on Sunday 20 May 2018 at
2.30pm at Benone Strand, Magilligan, County Derry, and Fahan Beach, County Donegal.
Please come along and pray for this crucially important cause, six days before the
Referendum is held. For more details ring +0044 (0) 7730330028
Singleness – A Poem by Father Pádraig Daly OSA written for Matthew
Hemson on his Ordination
There will be joy too in your singleness
as when gloom lifts while you listen
from some heart fastened to sorrow;
as when children in schoolyards ambush you
and drag you off in riotous play;
as when affection swamps you in a festive congregation;
as when ailing women you visit in shabby flats
fall silent before the mystery of broken bread;
as when the dying bless you
with their last most precious smiles;
as when, sitting in the silence of automatic prayer
you know suddenly you are being visited by God.
The old will shelter in your untidy heart;
the young will know in you
the laughter of Yahweh; and the wretched see
you have no spouse but them.
Adoration Chapel
The Adoration Committee are inviting parishioners
to spend some time each week in the Adoration Chapel to pray for the keeping of
the 8th Amendment on May 28th.
Mass for the Sick will take place in the Carmelite retreat Centre Termonbacca on Tuesday
24th April, beginning at 7.30pm
Seek Ye First
Seek ye first the kingdom of God
And his righteousness And all these things will
be added unto you, Alleluia.
Christ be our Light
Longing for light we wait in darkness
longing for truth we turn to you
Make us your own your holy people
light for the world to see.
Chorus: Christ be our light shine in our hearts
Shine through the darkness, Christ be our light
shine in your church gathered today.
Longing for peace our world is troubled
Longing for hope many despair, Your word alone
has power to save us,
Make us your living voice. Chorus:
Longing for food many are hungry
Longing for water many still thirst
Make us your bread broken for others shared
until all are fed. Chorus:
Many the gifts many the people
many the hearts that yearn to belong
Let us be servants to one another
making your kingdom come.
Lay your hands:
Lay your hands gently upon us, Let their touch
render your peace, Let them bring your forgiveness and healing
Lay your hands gently lay your hands.
You were sent to free the broken hearted
You were sent to give sight to the blind
You desire to heal all our illness
Lay your hands gently lay your hands.
Lord we come to you through one another
Lord we come to you in all our need
Lord we come to you seeking wholeness
Lay your hands gently lay your hands.
How great thou art
O lord my God when I in awesome wonder,
Consider
all the works thy hand has made.
I see the stars I hear the rolling thunder thy
power throughout the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul my Saviour God to
thee, How great thou art, how great thou art (2)
Pro-Life Convoy
On Monday 23rd the Pro-Life Group from Dublin
are meeting on Main Street, Buncrana, they would like everyone to join them in a
convoy to Letterkenny, they need as many cars as possible join in, please contact
0863218303
Pro-Life Rally
A Very important Pro-Life rally will take place
in Dublin on May 12th, busses will be leaving from Buncrana, more details to follow. The deadline to register to vote is April 28,
it is your responsibility to check that you are on the registrar, applications can
be got on line or at your local Post Office. Postal vote applications can be got
in the Parish Office.
Last week’s collection was €4,935
Sincere Thanks
St. Mary’s Hall Manager: Danny Henderson Tel.
9361572
Buncrana Parish Draw - Week No 11, 15th April
2018
1st Prize €500 - McClay family, Clonbeg
Promoter: Helen Doherty
2nd Prize €300 - Bridget Hepper, Crana View
Promoter: Bridget Hepper
3rd Prize €150 - Hannagh McLaughlin, Gort na Mbo
Promoter: Mary E Doherty
Bingo
Bingo on Friday &
Sunday night at 9pm in St Mary’s Hall
Snowball: €2,650.
Page 9 now Single Book and Sheet €10.
Double Book and Sheets
€15.
The Cinema
Blockers (15’s) 102 min
Sat 21st at 8.15pm, plus Mon to Thurs at 8.15pm
Wrinkle in Time (PG) 109 Mins
Matinee today Sun at 3pm
Avengers Infinity War (12A), 149 mins
Fri 27th at 5pm, Sat plus Mon - Thur at 8.15pm.
Matinee Sun 29th at 3pm, Sun 6th at 3pm
Rampage (12A) 107 min
From Fri 11th May
Community Corner
Coláiste Chú Chulainn Gaoth Dobhair are running a 2 week
Gaeltach course from 3 - 17 June, any parent wanting to send their child on this
course contact Patricia Doherty Tinney on 0876482182, normal cost is €590, however
there is a scholarship of €150 available to Buncrana Children.
Céilí Mór in Cockhill Hall on Friday 27th April 9 - 12pm, Music by Duntally, adm
€5 incl supper, all welcome.
Childminder wanted immediate start in Children’s own house or would consider childminders
home. Driving preferable but not essential, Telephone 0872178373
Wild Inishowen are having a talk by Teagasc Advisor Steven Mayer on the planting of
trees in the Exchange, Castle Ave on Tue 24th at 7.30pm.
Slimming World Every Tues at 9.30am, 11.30am, 5.30pm and 7.30pm in the Inishowen Gateway
Hotel, Men & Women Welcome. Tel Anne Marie on 0860848705.
Inishowen Holistic Therapies offering: Reflexology, Facial Reflexology, Hot Stone Massage & Remedial Massage,
available for all ages including children, for more info and to book call Ciara
on 0877925319 or find us on FB
Inishowen Development Partnership New ECDL course starting
in IDP in May 1st 2018, One day a week, Cost €275 Limited places available, Call
Maureen or Katie to book a place at 0749362218.
The Samaritans would like to thank everyone who helped and donated to last weekends
church gate collection, €1,500 was raised.
Prancers Against Cancer are running a Coffee
morning on Friday 4th May in O’Flaherty’s bar from 10am - 3pm, also a dance in the
Halfway House on May 6th, music by Keltic Knights adm €10, Everyone welcome, Relay
for Life.
Sliabh Sneacht Centre
Drumfries Walking Group every Fri., meeting outside the Ballyliffin Hotel next Fri, 27th at
10am for the Arda walk. The walk will last approx one hour with light refreshments
served afterwards. Everyone welcome.
Jive & waltz Class with step by step instruction by Breedge & John every Tues from
9pm – 10:15pm.
Taking names for: Basic Computers – starting soon.
Centre Hire and Room Hire available at reasonable rates. Contact us on: 074 93 61742 Text: 087 148 6001 or email:
admin@sliabhsneachtcentre.ie
Beginners Pilates anyone interested in a Beginners 7 week Pilates Course, on a Monday
evening at 7pm, in Tullyarvan Mill, call or text Claire 086 381163
Callum's Walk On the 23rd of April 2018 iCARE will host the 3rd annual "Callum's
Walk - for Autism Awareness and Acceptance The walk will start at 11am, starting
at the Oratory Chapel walking towards main street and ending at the iCARE centre,
where we will have refreshments for everyone in application for the community’s
help this past year and end with a balloon release in remembrance of Callum. Please
come along, show your support
AA if Alcohol is causing you problems in your life, we have meetings in
Buncrana on Saturday at 1.30am & Sunday at 8.pm in St Teresa’s Room (behind
The Oratory).
North West Golf Club - ‘Get into the Golf Programme’ - Ladies & Gents 6 week coaching,
€60 with PGA Professional. Lesson start at 7pm, Tues 24th - Tues 29th May, All equipment
provided—wear comfortable warm clothing/footwear. Booking essential, contact golf
shop 074 93 61715 or Michael McGeady 0871813008.
A Thought... A vocation can be a vacation, if you love what you do.
The Exchange Understanding Self Harm Workshop at The Exchange on 26th April from
10am - 4pm. In partnership with the HSE. The workshop is free. Lunch, tea &
coffee with be provided by Insight Inishowen. We ask for a small donation to cover
cost. Book your place by 074 9362572 or insightinishowen@gmail.com
Two Local Pilgrimages to Medugorje have been organised
for this year. Departure dates are 27th June & 30th Sept (each for 7 nights,
from Belfast Airport) tour operator is Marian Pilgrimages Dublin. Cost £579 or €639,
For full details & to book contact Marie 9361625 or Paddy on 0879277428.
Park Run (5k Walk/Run) every Saturday Morning
9.30am sharp meeting at the Tip O’Neill statue, Shore front, free entry contact
Liz or Jason on 0852522752. Coffee afterwards in the Fishermans Wharf - 10% discount,
see you there!
McCleans Cleaning Service carpet upholstery
cleaning, power washing, window cleaning, all types of cleaning undertaken, call 086 8480321/9322396
Get the Grade English tuition for Junior & Leaving Cert. Tel Mark on 086 6655334 or
9322472
Maths tutor for honours or pass. Call 9362444 or 087 2913186.
Yogi Life
NEW General Level YOGA CLASSES running Friday, Saturday
and Monday in the Tullyarvan Mill Buncrana.
Class Timetable: (Friday evening
6:30-7:30pm) (Saturday morning 11-12noon)
(Saturday afternoon 12:30-1:30pm-beginners class only) and (Monday evening 5:45-6:30pm). Drop in’s
welcome or 4-week blocks available. For more information call/text Joanne on 086-3631341
or email itsayogilife@gmail.com (*General Level – students
with yoga experience). Classes running from Fri April 13th.
Ceili Mor & Old Time in the Illies Community Hall on Friday 13th
April. Music by Martin Duggan. Dancing 9pm - 12. Admission €5
Samaritans Helpline number Call Free phone: 116 123,
Text: 087 2 60 90 90 (standard text
rates apply).
The Gateway Singers Present “AN EVENING OF SONG”
In Christ Church Buncrana On Friday 4 May at 8pm Entrance free. Donations for the ongoing restoration work in Christ
Church.
Butterfly & Wildlife Garden being created in Ardarvan heights, anyone willing to help or interested in
wildlife and can spare a few hours (Mon - Fri’s 2-4) weather permitting, contact
0863564888
The Plaza Kids jiving & line dancing class - Mon’s 4:15pm. Line Dancing Tues 10:30am, - Beginners
Wed 7pm; Advanced Wed 8:00pm, JIVING, Wed 9:15pm
Waltzing and old tyme dancing lessons on Mon 8pm, The Plaza
call 086 1245348 or 087 3989210
Porter Funeral Directors Meenagorey Funeral home now available on request in Buncrana and Carndonagh, contact
0872926917/ 0860794820.
Gillespie’s Funeral Services, Tullyarvan, Buncrana. Contact 0863411814 or
0862863483
Murphy Funeral Directors, Tooban Burnfoot. Tel
074 9360313 or 0868093110 or 0868204245
Rock Landscaping & Maintenance Lawn care, fencing,
paving, tree surgery, concreting, pillars, wall building, digger work, paint work,
power washing, also hanging baskets & window boxes supplied, Call Ferghal on
0863166244.
Shaun Porter Gardening Grass cutting, strimming, hedge trimming, weeding & general tidy of
your garden. Certificates in Horticulture. Contact 0863286011 or Facebook Shaun
Porter Gardening.
Inishowen Injury Clinic - Cahir McLaughlin N.M.T. Treatment of Neck Pain, Back Pain, Shoulder Pain & Sports Injuries. To book - Call us on 086 075 3296
or find us on Facebook.
Buncrana Hospice Support Group would like to thank
all who have supported our endeavours, we have recently donated €10,000 to Donegal
& Foyle Hospices and , €3,000 to Carndonagh Hospital.
Saddle Rock cycling club and the Doherty (PV) family
are holding a cycle/walk cancer fundraiser this Sunday 22nd April 2018. All walkers
and cyclists to assemble for registration at Clonmany Hall at 9 am with the long
cycle departing at 9:30 and the short cycle departing at 9:45, the walk will depart
at 10am. Refreshments afterwards in Clonmany Hall. All support will be greatly appreciated.
The Avant Garden Children’s Spring Art Programme Art & Nature Camps
(outdoor) on Sat May 19th from 10am - 12noon, 4-6 years (junior) and 1pm– 3pm, 6+
years (senior). Afterschool Art Classes on Tues (9-12 years) & Wed (6-8years)
from 4pm - 5.15pm beginning April 24th, booking is essential as places are limited.
Contact 0863772399 or 0863903755 or email: avantgardenart@gmail.com
