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Parish of St. Ultan BOHERMEEN CORTOWN BOYERSTOWN NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 9TH AUGUST 2020 E-mail:[email protected] www.bohermeenparish.ie Office Tel: 046 907 3805 Fr. Andy Doyle. P.P. Mon-Fri 9.30-1.00 ‘Jesus is our best friend, and we share God’s mystery and love with each other.’ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello everyone, A Big Welcome to all of our online parishioners. Thank you for being here today. Our words are so powerful. They have the power to inspire to lead to teach to heal to say sorry to love ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INTERIM PARISH SCHEDULE The Sunday Mass ‘obligation’ continues to be relaxed and people who are unwell should not come to church. Masses will continue to be available on the webcam. We ask for your patience and understanding as we adjust to this new situation. • Follow directions of the stewards. • All churches will have hand sanitising stations on entering and exiting the churches. All Churches will be cleaned before and after Masses. • All churches will have hand sanitising stations on entering and exiting the churches. • While not obligatory, the wearing of face coverings is encouraged. • Holy Communion will be organised with the maximum of personal protection. Communion will be placed in the hand only. • Collections will not be taken up at the Offertory. Instead parishioners may place their envelopes in the box marked ‘Envelopes’ and your offertory contribution in the box marked ‘Offertory’. • Please bring missalettes home with you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW FIRST COMMUNION DATES- PLEASE NOTE ONLY FIRST COMMUNICANT AND THEIR PARENTS ARE ALLOWED TO ATTEND THE CEREMONY. CORTOWN NS - Saturday 5th September in Cortown Church at 11.00am. BOYERSTOWN NS - Saturday 12th September in Bohermeen Church at 11.00am. BOHERMEEN NS – Saturday 19th September in Bohermeen Church at 11.00am and 12.30pm. 1 Mass Intentions for the week 9th -16th August Bohermeen Masses Daily at 10.00am Saturday 8th August at 7.15pm – Tommy Murtagh-1st Anniversary Sunday 9th August at 11.30am – Nancy Gibney-1st Anniversary - Josie McConville-3rd anniversary ~~~~~~ Saturday 15th August at 7.15pm – Enda O’Reilly-13th Anniversary -Martin Keane – 6th Anniversary - Kit Reilly -Anniversary ~~~~~~ Sunday 16th August at 11.30am – Joe Murray-3rd Anniversary -Nancy Lynskey-5th Anniversary Cortown Masses Friday evenings at 7.30pm Sunday 9th August at 10.00am – Saturday 15th August at 6.00pm - Boyerstown Masses Thursday evenings at 7.30pm Saturday 8th August at 6.00pm – Sunday 16th August – MM-Thomas Farrelly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ministers of the Word-Bohermeen: Sat. 8th Aug: Majella Murray. Sun. 9th Aug: Pat Farrell Sat. 15th Aug. Sinead Bennett. Sun. 16th Aug. Terry Connolly Eucharistic Ministers: Jennifer Reilly, Julie Yore, Cathal O’Reilly, Dorothy Rennicks Baptisms will take place after 11.30 Mass in Bohermeen. There will be one baptism per Sunday and we ask that only parents, Godparents and baby attend. Contact Anne in the Parish office for bookings. Tel. 046 907 3805. CE Caretaker/maintenance positions available. Contact Maeve on 046 924 1812 for further details. The Vincent de Paul Society is available on Freephone 1800 677 777 or through our website www.svp.ie. Strict confidentiality is guaranteed at all times. Meath Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock: The Meath Diocese pilgrimage to Knock this year will be a virtual pilgrimage. Two priests from the diocese will attend the Shrine in Knock for the Rosary at 2.30pm and Mass at 3.00pm. These events can be followed online on the Knock Shrine website. www.knockshrine.ie . A new pilgrimage on Lough Derg’s lakeshore: Walk and Pray in the Lough Derg tradition on 16, 18, 22, 26 & 30 August. At times in the 1600s and 1700s when Station Island was closed by the Penal Laws, pilgrims undertook a form of pilgrimage on the lough shore. Walk in their footsteps. Contact 0 (0353) 71 9861518 or [email protected] for details. Numbers are limited. Advance booking essential. 2 Prayer At times God is to be found where we least expect him. He appears in joy and anguish, in the mountain breeze and the sea storm. In our prayer we need the patience to wait for God to speak to us, and the faith to walk towards him when he calls. Last week we spoke briefly about St. Alphonsus Liguori who founded the Redemptorists. For those who cannot make it to mass because of illness or being vulnerable to the covid19 virus, on the left is a lovely prayer of Spiritual Communion by St Alphonsus. We can say it every day. Young people (and for the young in heart and mind!) Do animals go on holidays???? I’ve heard of cats and dogs going on holidays. But what about other animals? What about cows, horses, pigs???? This fellow seems very at home, having his daily swim. Looks nice and warm too. Did you know that some pigs live in heaven? and they don’t even have to die, to go there? can you find out where it is on planet earth? When you’ve found the answer, see what this pig and many other animals get up to in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md8sA26ep4s Enjoy. 3 Laughter the best medicine Out of step ……… Funny …….. but Serious The rain was pouring down outside the pub. There standing in front of a big puddle outside the pub was an Irish man, drenched holding a stick, with a piece of string dangling in the water. A passer-by stopped and asked …. “what are you doing?” “Fishing” replied the old man. Feeling sorry for the old man, the gent says …. “come in out of the rain and have a drink with me”. In the warm ambiance of the pub, as they sip their whiskeys, the gentleman being a bit of a smart ass, cannot resist asking … “so how many have you caught today?” Replied the old man…… “you’re the 8th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We had a bold thought. A solution to someone who nags? Shouldn’t be showing this …. Ah but go on anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJwUeLbZnig Tip of the week Have Fun. Hey, I know many very holy, very spiritual people who have great faith and belief in God. They believe in heaven and some are absolute in their conviction that they will enjoy that next life in the company of Jesus …. eternal joy and happiness. And yet ….. they don’t want to die ….. not yet anyway. They believe that they have a life to live ….. So in the coming days, months, years ….. let us all live well. After all we only have one life on this earth, so let’s make the best of it. For ourselves, for our families, for our communities, let’s be a little crazy from time to time. Let’s have fun. Let’s ask ourselves ….. Can I bring a smile to someone’s face? Can I cause someone to laugh? Smiling and laughing is contagious. Let’s be good Contagious. 4 Alpha Our next Alpha starts in the Autumn. It will be specially focused towards those who experience illness or have a family member suffering from illness. You can register your interest now. Simply email [email protected] with the word “Alpha” and your phone number. We will contact you before the launch. Finances - Thank You We wish to acknowledge and thank all those who have sent in their Offerings and weekly envelopes and all those who pay by standing order. This really helps our finances. Offerings can be made by • leaving your weekly envelope into the Parish Centre or post box • continue using your weekly envelopes, keep them safe and then drop them off at the centre when we can return to daily/weekly Masses • or better still if you can go online and do a weekly / monthly direct debit to Bank of Ireland, Navan, IBAN IE04 9035 0980 5974 24 • or finally going on the parish website www.bohermeenparish.ie and contributing through the “DONATE” button Thank you for your help. It is greatly appreciated. Building Fund € 219.70 Priests Offerings €617.60. Offertory Collections: Bohermeen: €184.06 Cortown: €44.67 Boyerstown: €77.87 To all our contributors and readers We say a Big Thank You for all the pictures, ideas and content ….. whether gifted, borrowed or begged. To all our readers, we say we love your feedback, and welcome your content. Simply email [email protected] Can you help to circulate this bulletin by passing it on to some of your family members and friends. Getting it to each person in the parish is our aim. Better still ask your friends to simply email the parish office [email protected] with the word “Bulletin”. It will be emailed each Friday. Currently over 600 families receive this bulletin each week. It is also available in the 3 churches and in McHughs, Greetiagh and Gala Stores, Allenstown. Final thought To all our readers. Make your weekend great. Make it happy. Take care and God bless. 5 .