Sunday 21st March 2010
Fifth
Sunday of Lent
First
Reading : Isaiah 43: 16-21
God will rescue his people from slavery and they will
sing his praises.
Second
Reading: Philippians 3: 8-14
All I want is to know Christ and share in the power
of his resurrection.
Gospel:
John 8: 1-11
The mercy of Jesus reveals the compassionate love and
forgiveness of God.
Masses
Morning
Mass for Lent in Ballyosion
7.30am-Monday
to Friday.
St. Mary's,
Glennan
Monday:
7.30pm. Anniv. Packie Brennan, Monaghan & Glenickney
and also the
deceased members of the Brennan family.
Saturday:
7.00pm (Vigil).
Sunday:
10.00am .
St. Patrick’s
Friday:
7.30pm Anniv. Peter and Mary McAree, Derilla.
Anniv. Michael and Veronica Meehan, Derryvane.
Saturday:
10.00am. Month’s Memory – Mollie Mc Connon,
Emyvale.
Sunday:
11.30am.
Donagh
Oratory
Tuesday:
10.00am. Anniv. Andy and James McQuaid, Killycooley.
Thursday:
10.00am.
St. Mary’s:
Saturday
27th 7.00pm Dolores Hughes, James McKnight,
Ellen Molloy, Ciaran McKenna.
Sunday:
28th 10.00am Gemma Curely, Luke Hughes, James
Boyle, Darragh Boyle.
St. Patrick’s:
Friday
26th 7.30pm Sarah Donohue, Ellen O’Brien,
Jake Ward, Oisin Murphy, Ellen Mulligan.
Sunday.
28th 11.30am. Adrian Fields, Hannah Gallagher,
James Gallagher, Amy Hamill.
Eucharistic
Ministers
St. Mary’s
Sat. 27th.
7.00pm. Teresa Connolly, Pauline McKenna.
Sun. 28th.
10.00am Geraldine Watterson, Patrick O’Doherty.
St. Patrick’s
Sun. 28th.
11.30am Seamus Fields, Niall Kelly, Monica
McKernan.
Recent Baptisms:
Charlie Stephen
Goodwin, son of James and Vanessa.
Bláthin Rita Lavin, daughter of Kieran and Brouagh.
Kian James Corrigan, son of Malachy and June.
Daragh Mark Clerkin, son of John and Karen.
Blessing
of Graves
will
take place on Sunday, 9th May, 2010.
Irish
Wheelchair Association:
Thanks
to all who subscribed to the collection
last
week-end which amounted to
€612.30.
Donagh Development
Association
Project:
(Walk around Emy Lough)
The AGM will be held on Thursday 25th March at 9.00pm
in Office next door to Oratory. All interested in the
completion of the walk around the Lough are welcome
to attend this meeting.
Daffodil
Day: (Friday Next, 26th March is Daffodil Day)
in aid of the Irish Cancer Society.
Please support and help in any way you can. If you wish
to volunteer to help please contact Marie Murphy or
Amelia, tel. 87297 or Nancy McCluskey – tel. –
87230, Geraldine Watterson –tel. 086 0816449.
Priests Pilgrimage
to Lough Derg:
To mark the Year
of the Priesthood Bishop Duffy will lead a day of prayer
for all the priests of the Diocese of Clogher to Lough
Derg on Wednesday 24th March, Feast of St. Macartan.
Note that there will be no mass in the Oratory on Wednesday
morning.
.
Divine Mercy Sunday:
Come celebrate
Divine Mercy in St.Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan
on Sunday,11 April,
2010 at 3.00pm. All Welcome.
IFA County
Executive A.G.M
The annual general
meeting of Monaghan County Executive I.F.A will be held
in
The Glencarn Hotel,
Castleblaney on Thursday next 25th 2010 at 8.30pm sharp.
Glaslough N.S
Enrolment
for new pupils
for the academic year 2010/11 will take place between
the 12th - 16th April.
Please ring or
call to the school for an enrolment form.
A copy of child’s
birth cert is also required. An induction day for new
pupils will be held in June.
Tydavnet Group
Water Scheme Society Ltd:
The bi-annual
scouring or flushing out of all distribution pipelines
will commence on Monday morning next the 22nd March
2010, and will continue to the end of the week, until
all lines are thoroughly flushed out.
Customers on
the scheme are advised NOT to use automatic washing
machines during the scouring operation due to some colouration
from possible sedimentation in the lines.
Motorbike Challenge-32
Counties in 24 Hours
On the 8th May,
local lad, Sean Gilbride will be riding his motorbike
around the 32 counties of Ireland in just 24 hours.
In doing so he will be on the saddle for no less than
19 Hours covering around 1357 km. This is all in aid
of Temple Street Children’s Hospital. If anyone
wants to donate towards this worthy cause – please
go online by typing in www.mycharity.ie/event/sean_gilbride_32_in_24/
Or if you want to donate on a sponsorship card please
ring Seamus at 086 8113967.After raising €8,600
for his Chosen Charity , Sean then qualifies to travel
with the Irish 66er's to America to ride their motorbikes
down route 66. This challenge includes driving through
8 States in 8 Days covering a total of 2428 miles.
Family History:
Michael McQuaid
was born in Co. Monaghan app. 1815-1820 and immigrated
to Prince Edward Island, Canada. A recorded land lease
in PEI shows he was well settled there by 1851. If any
reader can help us make any connections back to Co.
Monaghan, please email eric.mcquaid@gmail.com or mail
Eric McQuaid, 6408 Pintail Court, Plano, Texas, USA
75024. Other names of interest: McMahon (his wife Elizabeth,
born 1828 in Co. Monaghan), Leonard, Kelly, Clerkin.
Beannachtaí!
Evening of Fashion:
The St.Louis
Secondary School Parents Association is holding an “Evening
of Fashion” in conjunction with Utopia, Project
W, Couture, Esprit and Inka, in the Four Seasons Hotel
on Thursday 25th March at 8.00pm. Funds will be Aid
of ICT facilities in the school.
Donagh Basketball
Club
would like to
take this opportunity to congratulate the U13 Girls,
U14 Girls and U16 Boys Basketball teams who have all
won their respective Ulster League Titles in the past
few weeks. This is a fantastic achievement and a great
tribute to all concerned for their efforts and commitment
during the year. Congratulations also to our U13 Boys
who took part in the Ulster League this year against
some very stiff competition and did us remarkably proud.
This weekend the U13 Girls and U14 Girls participate
in their Ulster Cup Finals in Lagan Valley Sports Complex,
Lisburn. An end of year celebration will be held on
Sunday evening 21st March 2010 at 6pm in the Emyvale
Leisure Centre to honour all four teams who have taken
part this year. Refreshments will be served. All
welcome.
