Buncrana Parish Newsletter

Sunday, 1st July 2018 | 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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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

The World Meeting of Families Papal Mass in Dublin – Sunday 26 August 2018

Now that tickets have become available for the Papal Mass in Dublin on Sunday 26 August 2018, there are 320 tickets available to this parish. Six coaches will bring us from Buncrana to the Phoenix Park. Details are as follows:

Departure: 6.ooam

Breakfast en route: Kelly’s Inn, Ballygawley, 7.30am

Arrival in Dublin: Circa 11.00am

Mass: 3.00pm

Dinner en route: 8.00pm

Package (including food and transport): Adults €40.00, Children €15.00

Quite a number of places have already been booked.

Please contact the Parish Office on a first-come-first-served basis.

Father Bradley

Mass Times & Parking Arrangements for Irish Open (4-8 July)

The only Masses expected to be affected by the additional traffic moving to/from Ballyliffin are those taking place in St Mary’s Oratory. Please allow additional time to travelling to/from the Masses next weekend. For Masses in Cockhill, people might think of using the Hilltown Road more.

Weekday Masses will continue at the usual times.

Parking at St Mary’s Oratory for morning Masses will only be in the carpark to the rear of the Oratory. There will be NO PARKING on St Mary’s Road on at the Gates of the Oratory. Attendants will be in place to help people arriving on foot to cross the road safely.

Similar parking arrangements will be in place for the weekend Masses at St Mary’s Oratory.

The most significant change next weekend will be that the 9.00am Mass in St Mary’s Oratory is brought forward to 8.00am.

Please show patience and understanding in light of the heavier traffic. Thank you.

Official Family Prayer for World Meeting of Families 2018

God, our Father,

We are brothers and sisters in Jesus your Son,

One family, in the Spirit of your love.

Bless us with the joy of love.

Make us patient and kind,

gentle and generous,

welcoming to those in need.

Help us to live your forgiveness and peace.

Protect all families with your loving care,

Especially those for whom we now pray:

 [We pause and remember family members and others by name].

Increase our faith,

Strengthen our hope,

Keep us safe in your love,

Make us always grateful for the gift of life that we share.

This we ask, through Christ our Lord,

Amen

Mary, mother and guide, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, father and protector, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, pray for us.

Masses

St. Mary’s Oratory

Mon 2nd Mass at 10am

Tues 3rd Mass at 10am

Wed 4th Mass at 10am

Thurs 5th Mass at 10am

Fri 6th Cora Cassidy

Sat 7th Jim Frew

St. Mary’s Cockhill

Mon 2nd Bridie Doherty

Tues 3rd Mick Maloney

Wed 4th No Mass

Fri 6th Joe McGowan

Sat 7th Denis Horgan (1st A)

Star of the Sea

No Thursday evening  Mass in Desertegney during the month of July and August

Baptisms

We welcome into God’s family

Leah Rose McLaughlin

April Brid Friel

Zoe Aoife Blake

who were baptised recently.

13th Sunday in ordinary time

Wis 1:13-15, 2:23-24. Wisdom was written about 40 BC and the Jews had come to believe in life after death. The devil’s envy of God and the sin of Adam brought death. But we are made imperishable after God’s own nature.

2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15. Since God has been so generous to us in Christ who emptied himself of his divinity for us, we should share and share alike with one another.

Mk 5:21-43. Mark’s account of these two miracles is not just about Jesus ‘ going about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil’ (Act 10). Mark is here already teaching us about how we will be raised from death to life through faith in Jesus and in his

resurrection.

A thought.......While the recently published Inishowen Business Directory 2018 fails to make any reference to any parish or priest, any Church or clergyman, we ARE still trading and open for business.

Padre Pio prayer group

Will hold their monthly meeting on Tues 3rd July in The Holy Family Church, Ballymagroarty, starting with Mass at 7.15pm. There will be a first class relic at the meeting, everyone welcome.

Marian Devotions

will take place in the Carmelite Retreat Centre Termonbacca on Tues 3rd July at 7.30pm.

Rally for Life,

Bus leaving Buncrana on 7th July for An All Ireland Rally for Life at Stromont, for more info contact Mary Doherty 086 3218303 or Liam Grant 0868242107

St. Mary’s Hall 

Manager: Danny Henderson Tel. 9361572

Buncrana Parish Draw

Week No 21, 24th June 2018

1st Prize €500 - Dara McLaughlin, The Rectory, Fahan

Promoter: Helen Smith

2nd Prize €300 - B & P Grant, Cloncool Park

Promoter: Mary McGonagle

3rd Prize €150– Tessie Doherty, Kinnego

Promoter: Tessie Doherty

Bingo

Bingo on Friday & Sunday night at 9pm in St Mary’s Hall

Snowball: €3,150. Page 9 now Single Book and Sheet €10.

Double Book and Sheets €15.

The Cinema

Oceans 8 (12a) 110 min

Sat 30th @ 8.15pm, Mon - Thur @ 8.15pm

Sherlock Gnomes (gen) 86 min

Matinee today Sun @ 3pm

Zoo (PG) 97 min

Fri 6th @ 5pm Sat @ 8.15pm Mon –Thur @ 8.15pm

Matinee Sun 8th @ 3pm

Community Corner

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.

Sliabh Sneacht Centre Drumfries Walking Group takes place every Friday. We will be leaving from the Centre next Friday, 6th July at 10am. Walk will last one hour with light refreshments served afterwards.

Everyone welcome. Centre Hire and Room Hire available at reasonable rates. Contact Sliabh Sneacht Centre for more information or to register your interest on: 074 93 61 742 Text: 087 148 6001 or email: admin@sliabhsneachtcentre.ie

Feel Good Fortnight steps in Celtic Spirituality on Fri 6th July. Meeting at St Mary’s Oratory with a gentle walk around Buncrana, stopping to pray or reflect at familiar places and to finish at The Exchange.

Gutsy World Workshop do you suffer from any bowel/gut related condition? This workshop is aimed at teaching you the knowledge on how to heal and seal your own gut using GAPS protocol. Sun 8th July 9.30-2pm at Nutriki Buncrana cost €60 Brunch included, for more info call Glenda on 085 2288253

Donegal Hospice Church gate collection will take place on 7th & 8th July.

Wainsworld open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12-6pm. Food served all day. Summer camps 9th-13th July, 23rd-27th July, 13th-17th Aug 10am-2pm daily, age 3-11 €60 per week lunch provided, activities include play in frame, art & crafts, baking, fitness, dancing and loads of fun, for more info call 93 22450.

Lough Derg 2018: The Three Day Pilgrimage is currently open. You may begin on any day until Monday 13th August. Advance booking is not necessary. The Lough Derg team can help you to co-ordinate public transport or link up with Pilgrimage Organisers in your locality – phone Lorraine on 071 9861518 (from NI +353) email:info@loughderg.org

Congratulations to the Donegal Players and Management on their success in the recent Ulster Senior Championship Final. Onwards and upwards.

The Busy Brush Church St, Buncrana, a drop in plaster painting studio for all ages, choose from one of hundreds of plaster figurines, fun for all the family, no booking necessary, FB busy brush studio, tel 0879091980.

AA if Alcohol is causing you problems in your life, we have meetings in Buncrana on Saturday at 11.30am & Sunday at 8.pm in St Teresa’s Room (behind The Oratory).

Buncrana parkrun (5k Walk/Run) every Saturday Morning 9.30am sharp meeting at the Tip O’Neill statue, Shore front, free entry. Also Buncrana parkwalk every Saturday , all welcome. Register online at www.parkrun.ie. Coffee afterwards in the Fishermans Wharf - 10% discount, see you there!Maggies Tavern St Johnston presents Ritchie Remo and a BBQ (pig on the spit) on Fri 6th July in aid of Scoil Iosagain & Donegal Diabetic Branch, tickets €20 on sale from Scoil Iosagain & 0866052669.

Breast Feeding Support Group being held in Buncrana Health centre every Thursday from 11-12, all welcome including pregnant women, for more information & support contact the Public Health Nurse on 9361044.

Buncrana Red Cross Annual Family Fun Disco in the Plaza on Sun 8th July at 3pm with spot prizes, Disneyland friends also attending. Adm €4 or €10 per family. Our Little Miss & Mister will also be selected with their parents receiving €100 of First Aid training during the year.

Feel Good Fortnight is running this year from 23rd June to Sunday 8th July. Two weeks of events to promote positive mental, emotional, physical, social and spiritual wellbeing in our community. Please see programme for individual events and times.

The Cairn Greencastle presents “Those were the Days” every Tues at 8pm, memories and music from the 60s and 70s, also “Songs scenes and stories of Inishowen” with Patsy Cavanagh every Fri at 8pm. More info 9381104.

One Night Stands, the Barracuda Showband Story, is performing one final time to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Plaza Ballroom on the 11th July at 8pm, a mix of comedy, live music, and dance of the showband era.

Swilly Gardening Club will visit gardens in Buncrana on Monday 16th July. Please assemble at Nailors Row, opposite SuperValu before 7.30pm. Everyone welcome to come along. Contact 0863573145 for more info.

Pioneer Bus trip to Knock takes place on Sun 15th July, leaving Supervalu Buncrana at 8am, cost including 2 meals €50, to book phone Junior on 93 61560.

Rock’n’Roll Sunday takes place in the Plaza on Sun 22nd July, dancing from 5pm to members of Ex Showband Shows, Mickey & Emmet Doherty, Liam & Eamon Cutlife, Hugh P Doherty, Aidan McLaughlin and more, proceeds going to Guatemala Volcano victims & iCare, adm €10 tea & refreshments served.

Burt’s Big Book sale in Burt hall on 7th, 8th, 9th July.Starting at 10am.3 charities will share the proceeds Mater hospital Heart and Lung Ward, Cashel Na Cor and iCare Contact Kathleen Grant 00353749368373 for donations of books or bring them to the hall on the Thursday prior to sale.

The Lunch Box Deli - Home made dinners, sit in or take away, freshly made trays of sandwiches for all occasions, Open 7am - 7pm, 7 days a week, sit in or take away, call in your order (074) 9322700

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.

Gutsy World - The Healthy Weight Loss Program. Lose weight, improve gut health, balance hormones, eat to improve mood, manage stress! 1-1 private slots available every Thur in Seriously Fit, Buncrana between morn & eves. Letterkenny on a Tues and Carn on Wed. Both men & women welcome. Call Glenda on 085 2288253 to book in.

Seriously Fit Buncrana: Fitness & nutrition programs to suit everyone. Our Services: - Drop Ins; Monthly Member & Couple packages; Small Group Personal Training programs; Men Only classes, Introduction to Fitness program (complete beginners); Fun Fit Kids Camp ages 3-12 every Friday; Weekly weigh in & healthy eating program; Nailors Row, Buncrana. Contact Billy on 085 2288304.

Samaritans Helpline number Call Free phone: 116 123, Text: 087 2 60 90 90 (standard rates apply).

Maths tutor for honours or pass. Call 9362444 or 0872913186.

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

Craic 'n' Code An Introduction to Coding. July 16th-20th, CCÉ, Tullyarvan Mill. Game Creation/Web design for 8-11 year olds (mornings: 9.30-12.30). Fee for the week: €80.Contact Jim Woods 087 4186082

Found sum of money found on main street, contact the parish office on 9361253.