A pancake night will be held in Templeport Resource Centre Bawnboy on CORLOUGH/TEMPLEPORT PARISH NEWSLETTER Tuesday 5th March. Pancakes will be served from 8:30 till 9:30. Dancing from 9:30pm. Music by Larry & Co. Proceeds go to day centre. Please support

I.C.A. Meeting of Corlough I.C.A. on Thursday 7th March at 8pm. in Corlough Community Centre. Talk on Gardening by Imelda Bannon. All welcome. Sunday 3rd March 2019 – 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Social Dancing Classes in Templeport Centre on Thursday 7th of March at Fr. John Phair P.P. – Telephone 049-9523103/087-7528378 8pm. All welcome. Parish Website: www.corloughtempleport.com

Neighbouring Priests: Fr. Oliver O’Reilly, P.P. Ballyconnell 049-9526291/086-2368446 St.Mogue’s College: Public Information Meeting regarding update of Fr. Sean Mawn P.P. Ballinamore 071-9644039/087-6869040 St.Mogue’s College’s position. All very welcome. Wednesday 6th March at Fr. Johnnie Cusack C.C. Ballinamore 071-9644050/087-2408409 9pm in Templeport Resource Centre. Support is growing for the retention MASSES FOR THE COMING WEEK: of our school. Thank you for your help to date Saturday 2 8.15pm Corlough Michael & Brigid McGoldrick, Altcrock. Charlie & Brigid McGoldrick, London St. Aidan’s GAA: TEMPLE -LOTTO results, Numbers drawn, Sunday 24th February, Pee, Ellie & Thomas McGovern, Derrymore. 6, 14, 19, 30. No Jackpot winner. Jackpot €3,400 in The Keepers Arms this Sean McGovern, Derrymore & Ferbane Sunday night. €30 winners: Nora Murphy, (Yearly Lotto). Ciara Stringer, Boeshill. Liam Cassidy, Tiernawannagh Sinead Maguire, Mullaghmore. Declan Shannon, Munlough. Rachel McCaffrey, Sunday 3 9.30am Kilnavart Christy, Margaret & Chris McIntyre 11.00am Bawnboy Adam, Kathleen & Pat Eves Kilsob. Club Membership is now due. Please contact either Martin Dolan, Damien Monday 4 9:00am Kilnavart NO MASS McKenna, Jim Kiernan or Thomas Doonan. Membership needs to be paid before Tuesday 5 7.30pm Bawnboy the season starts. U17s Well done to our u17 team and management who started Ash 11.00am Bawnboy The People of the Parish their league campaign with a comprehensive win against Blackwater Gaels in Wednesday 6 7.00pm Kilnavart Bawnboy last Saturday. Next up is another home fixture against Knockbride today 8.00pm Corlough Sunday 3rd of March. Please support Templeport Ladies 9 a-side Well done Thursday 7 9.00am Bawnboy Alice McGovern & John Brady Friday 8 8.00pm Corlough John, Greg, Jamesie, Teresa & Oliver McGovern & to our ladies on a big victory over local rivals Belturbet in the 9 a-side competition. James Dolan. Please check the Templeport Facebook page for future fixture details. Templeport Saturday 9 11.00am Kilnavart John Boyle O’Reilly, Currin (Months Memory) GAA Club Gear All forms of club gear available from the O’Neill’s website as we 8.15pm Corlough Joe, Susan & Marie Feehan. head into the start of the GAA Club calendar. Please logon on to www.oneills.com Thomas McHugh, Corrahombra for more details. Templeport Annual Draw. The annual draw took place last Sunday 10 9.30am Kilnavart Bernard, Mary Anne, Anna Rose, John & Mary Ellen Saturday 23rd of February in the Ballymac Inn. Winners were: €5,000 Sheila McGerty, Dromane. Rita & John Prior, Ballymagovern Donohoe, Teemore Seller- Naoise McKenna & Gareth Bannon, €1,000 Winner 11.00am Bawnboy Mary Brigid O’Reilly & Dec’d family, Gortmore. Oliver Kiernan, Foxfield. Seller - Sean Deely €200 Winners, Saoirse Bannon Keenagh. ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH, CORLOUGH Seller - Gareth Bannon, Joe Dolan Killynaff. Seller- Joe Dolan, Sean Ramsbotton Saturday 8.15pm Reader: Kelly Pior Eucharistic Minister: Kathleen Dolan c/o Declan Donohoe. Seller -Gavin & Aaron Donohoe, Stephen Doonan, Aoibhinn Derryvahan. Seller - Jason Doonan, Martin Bannon Keenagh. Seller- Gareth Bannon. McGovern Conor Smith Gowlagh. Seller - Killian Smith. Katie & Jason McCaffery c/o Kevin Ball. Offertory Collectors next Saturday: Eoghan McGovern & Martin Cassidy. Seller - Martin Ball, Ryan McCarron Kildoagh, Seller: Aidan Darcy, Merrin Dolan Altar Society: Helena McGovern & Mary Ann Brennan. Corlough Seller - Adrian McGovern. James Brady c/o Paddy Maguire Seller- Paddy ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH - KILNAVART Maguire. Thanks to everyone who contributed towards the draw this year, a Ash Wednesday Reader: Philomena Dolan Eucharistic Minister: Gerry Goldrick tremendous effort. Sunday 9.30am Mairead McAweeney Emily McKiernan Offertory Collectors for March Matt Farrell, Evelyn Bannon, Mary Crowe Fr. Charlie O’Gorman, Diocesan Director of Sacred Music, will host a workshop for ST. MOGUE’S CHURCH – BAWNBOY choirs in preparation for Lent and Easter in the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Ash Reader: Blaithin Ball Eucharistic Ministers: Paul Fahy Cavan, on Wednesday 13 March 2019 at 7:30p.m. All welcome. Please register in advance by contacting the Centre on 049 4375004. Wednesday Margaret McDermott Sunday 11am Anne Smith Bernie Martin, Katie McNulty Francis Keaney has taken up post as the new Director of Youth and Youth Adult Offertory Collectors for March: Margaret McDermott, Fergal Gorby, Padraig Donohoe. Ministry for the Diocese of Kilmore. He may be contacted at the Kilmore Diocesan Offertory Collection in the Templeport Area last weekend: €984.06 & £6.67. Pastoral Centre, The Conaty Centre, Cullies, Cavan H12 E5C7, telephone 049 4375004 [Ext. 103] or by email to [email protected] Our Deepest Sympathy to the family of Eddie Mc Gerty formerly Lahernahone st th who has died in England and Christian Woefel, (father of Dee Owens) who has died Kilmore Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes: 31 May – June 5 , Full board in the USA. May they rest in peace. accommodation. Booking forms for the pilgrim section from Cavan Travel, 15 Main St. Cavan 049-4361222 or Virginia Travel 049-8548544. Enquiries Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, 6 March, and will conclude on Holy Saturday, for special/sick Assisted pilgrims to Fr. Kevin Fay, 049-4331404/087-8579968. 20 April, the day before Easter. Lent invites us to personal spiritual renewal, and also to be mindful of our poor, oppressed and persecuted sisters and brothers and to reach out to them in their hour of need. COMMUNITY NOTICES The Pope’s Lenten Message calls for conversion. In his message for Lent, All notices for newsletter to be emailed [email protected] or Pope Francis warns that once God’s law is forsaken, the law of the strong over [email protected] or left into Maguire’s shop by 7pm the weak takes over. Pope Francis is calling on the faithful not to let the Lenten Thursday evening. Please include name and number for inclusion. season of grace pass in vain, and to live as children of God acknowledging and obeying His law, in particular in regards to our brothers and sisters and to creation. In this year’s Lenten message, the Pope invites believers to prepare to celebrate Holy Family School, Cootehill church gate collection in Kilnavart amounted to the paschal mystery with mind and heart renewed, warning that “Sin leads man €218.76. Thanks for your generosity. to consider himself the god of creation, to see himself as its absolute master and Congratulations to St Mogue’s College on winning the Ulster Final on to use it, not for the purpose willed by the Creator but for his own interests”. Thursday. Another success for our local secondary school and another reason The Trocaire 2019 Campaign is focusing on Land Rights. In our world today, why it should be retained. Well done to all involved… one quarter of families are landless. Losing land often means a loss of independence and leads to poverty. Land is more than a piece of arable ground. Do you want to re-train to re-enter the workforce? Are you out of work due It is the means to feed a family and make a living. It is a place to build a home to illness, disability or a personal setback? ICT Skills is a level 4 programme and a family, to have security and to look to the future. In many places, designed to support people who have faced a long-term barrier to to re-train communities have a spiritual and sacred connection to their land. Across the and re-enter the workforce. Participants on this programme may qualify for countries where Trócaire works, people who depend on land to make a living a training allowance (depending on eligibility criteria). Benefits to this do not own or control their land. This year we hear stories from Uganda, programme include a work placement, training plan, personalised support Guatemala and Lebanon This Lent we are focusing on three families from and QQI certification. Please telephone Mary on 049 4377038 for more these countries who have been or are being forced off their land. information.

Day of Reflection on care of the earth: A special Day of Reflection on Aughakillymaude Centre: Saturday 2nd March at 9.30pm usual Monthly caring for the earth will be held on Shrove Tuesday at the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cavan. The day will be facilitated by Sr Nellie McLoughlin, music session ( incls. Song & Prose). Usual refreshments. Tuesday 12th March a well-known speaker and author on the subject of spirituality and ecology. The day at 8.30 pm sharp Historical Society monthly Lecture/Talk“ The storey of St. begins in the Pastoral Centre at 11am and concludes around 4pm. Voluntary Ninnidh’s journey from Donegal to Knockninny plus the “ Mummers Travels “ contribution. To book a place phone the pastoral centre at 049-4375004 or to Bulgaria in the Balkans. A good night awaits you. Usual refreshments [email protected]