Mass Servers:
Tempo:
Week Beg 13th Jan: Ben McQuaid,
Ebhan Mallon, Rosie Flanagan & Maria Brennan.
Week Beg 20th Jan: Cormac Breen, Jack Kenny Quinn, Lily Tunney, Isobel Murphy.
Cradien:
Week Beg 13th Jan: Orla McKeever, Ryan McCann & Patrick Toal.
Week Beg 20th Jan: Michael & Ellen Cleary, Cormac Cox.
Anniversaries:
Tempo:
Friday 8.00pm Francie Jackson, Edenmore Heights.
Maureen & Pat Murphy &
deceased family members, Creagh
Violet Little & deceased of
McPhillips family.
Peggy Noble.
Tom, Bridget, Thomas Jnr, Noel
& Geraldine McMulkin, Shillanmore
James McMulkin, Glenview &
deceased family members,
Brendy McCusker, Omagh.
Cradien:
Sunday 20/1 9.30am Pat Cox & deceased family members, Mullanaskea.
Baptism:
Baptism is the foundation on which
our faith is built. We should meditate on this Sacrament again and again. When did
you meditate on this sacrament last? This may be your problem. It is a problem for
many people. You may not meditate, or know enough about this sacrament. Through
this sacrament you are united with Jesus in his suffering, death, and resurrection.
Without this unity with Jesus in his suffering, death and resurrection you cannot
have a relationship with God our Father in heaven. In other words you cannot have
a friendship with God, and without this friendship you cannot be saved. Therefore
through Baptism we begin our faith journey for it is the sacrament on which our
faith is built. In this sacrament we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit who unites
us with Jesus and who draws us to Jesus so that we grow in our knowledge of Jesus.
We are united with Jesus and we are united with one another. This is why we like
to have many Baptisms together, for we are all united to Jesus and with one another.
As we say we become part of the family of God. Naturally we cannot grow in this
faith if our parents refuse to help us. We cannot come to know Jesus without help
from our parents. The Holy Spirit cannot work without our parents... In the Gospel
Jesus says to the parents: “Let the children
come to me and do not stop them”. Jesus calls on the parents to cooperate with
the children in helping them come to Jesus. The greatest disaster in the church today is that Parents refuse to carry
out what Jesus asks them to do. Parents often refuse to let the children come to
Jesus. This is the disgrace of our time. When such children come to a catholic school the teachers have no foundation
on which to work. However if the parents have let the children come to Jesus
the teachers can do great work. Again
all depends on their parents. It is difficult to understand why parents
might cause such damage in a child’s life, but that is what happens when they refuse
to let the child come to Jesus in the home.
It is sad and tragic, and the situation can never be changed for when one link in
the chain of responsibility is broken, it will remain broken from one generation
to another unless there is a miracle. And miracles need to happen!
Death:
We pray for the happy repose of
the soul of Jack Shannon whose Funeral Mass we celebrated on Tuesday 8th January
2019. May God console all who mourn his death, and may he rest in peace.
Wedding:
We congratulate Emma Clarke, Pubble
Road, Tempo, and Jude O Donnell, Killesher, Castlederg who were married in the Church
of The Immaculate Conception, Tempo on Monday 31st December 2018. May their home
be filled with love, happiness, prayer and Joy!
Baptism:
We welcome into the Community
of Faith---Jessica Leonard—Tempo Road, Garvary, and Matthew Gerard Campbell, Carn
Road, Tempo who were baptised in the Church of St Joseph, Cradien on 23rd December
2018. May their homes be filled with happiness, prayer Joy and peace!
Ordination:
Fr Larry Duffy will be ordained
Bishop of Clogher on Sunday 10th Feb in St Macartan’s Cathedral at 3.00pm.
Readers: Cradien: Jan 20th – Aileen Cox, Jan 27th – James Naan.
Pobal Parish Pastoral Council: meet on Tuesday 15th January at 8.00pm in Fr John’s House.
All are asked to attend.
Dooneen Centre: Classes resume as usual on 16th January – Art and Yoga both start at 7.30
and Ceili and Old Time Dancing at 9.15pm. New members welcome to start at any time.
