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MASS
TIMES
St Joseph’s, Fincarn
- Monday and Friday 9.30am
Wednesday 8.00pm
St Mary’s, Altinure -
Tuesday and Thurs 10.00am
SUNDAY
COLLECTION– Thank you for your generosity:
St Peter & St Paul’s: Priests collection:
£601
ALTAR SERVERS – ST JOSEPH’S
Sat 30th May – Team 3 – Trudy Farren,
Katie McGrellis, Clodagh Simpson, Anna Maria
Murphy, Ciara McCloskey
Sun 31st
May– Team 4 (w) – Aedan McGrellis,
Ellie McGrellis, Emma O’Neill, Liam Eoin
Campbell, Conor Campbell, Reece Armstrong
ALTAR
SERVERS – ST MARY’S
Sat 30th May – Racheal O’Kane, Taneisha
Murray, Omarh McCormack
Sun 31st May – Adam Connolly, Tamara O’Kane,
Karl O’Kane
ALTAR
SERVERS – ST PETER & ST PAUL’S
Week beg.
May 31st– Kiernan McCormick, Orla McLaughlin,
Gemma O’Connor
READERS
– ST MARY’S
Vigil – Grace McKenna, Sinead McKenna
Morning - Michael Forrester
READERS
– ST JOSEPH’S
Sat 30th May Emma McCormick Rachel Farren
Sun 31st May Emmet Kerlin Sorcha O’Hara
BLESSING
OF THE GRAVES – St Joseph’s, Fincairn
– Sunday 14th June – More details
later...
BUILDING
FUND DRAW
We are
hoping to hold a £20 Halloween draw. This
money will be used for the upkeep of our Three
Churches as well as Altinure and Fincarn Halls.
The tickets should be available soon. Your support
is much appreciated.
GLENSHANE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
A list of courses both educational and recreational
commencing in September in Glenshane House is
now available. Call into the office to collect
the list and to register your interest. Courses
include Book-keeping, creative sewing, essential
skills literacy, jewelry making and many other
interesting subjects………..
telephone 028777 42494
LEARMOUNT
RESOURCE CENTRE
DAWN CHORUS - Hear the songs of our
native birds in Learmount Forest and guide,
John Clarke, will explain how to identify them
by their looks, songs and behaviour. The walk
will be followed up with a cooked breakfast
back at the community centre. Cost £1.50.
Meeting up at Learmount Community Centre (beside
Playarea) on Saturday 30th May at 6.30am. Everyone
welcome.
DIOCESAN
YOUTH MASS & BLESSING FOR YOUNG DRIVERS
– On Pentecost Sunday 31st May there will
be a Diocesan Youth Mass and Blessing for Young
Drivers in St Columb’s Church, Chapel
Road, Waterside, Derry at 7.00pm. All young
drivers are invited to bring their license or
car keys to this Mass for a special blessing.
‘Rejoice’ the Diocesan Youth Choir
will lead the music and Bishop Hegarty will
be the main celebrant. Refreshments will be
served in the parish centre after Mass. Everyone
welcome
DERRY
CITY SCIENTIFIC LTD – Maths/
Science Teachers not yet employed can register
on the new Derry based NWMathsScienceTutors.com
site opening in September. Ring Mary on Derry
02871 269602 Monday to Friday
BANAGHER
GAC – Banagher U14 hurling team
qualified for the Féile na nGael which
is being held in Co. Offaly on 19th-21st June
2009. All parents of team members are invited
to an Information Night at the Club Pavilion
on Wednesday 27th May at 8.00pm.
There will be a one hour training session on
Sunday morning 24th May 2009 at 10.30am sharp.
Good
luck to the Derry Football team especially Paul
Cartin, Mark Lynch and Sean Marty Lockhart against
Monaghan – from everyone in the Club –
Doire Abú!
SMOKING CESSATION SCHEME – Declan
Bateson from Feeny Pharmacy is running a Smoking
Cessation Scheme. For more details on how to
improve your health (and your pocket) contact
Declan at the Pharmacy!!
WHIST
DRIVE – St Mary’s Primary
School, Park, Friday 29th May at 8.30pm. Admission
£5 including supper. Proceeds in aid of
Camara Africa – two of the teachers from
St Mary’s Altinure are going to Ethiopia
to teach computers for 4 weeks.
ADDICTION
– THE FIRST STEP IN RECOVERY
Learn from the past, plan for the future, live
in the present………
Dependence
on alcohol, other drugs or gambling presents
life threatening physical and mental health
challenges for individuals, stress and relationship
difficulties in families, financial problems
for all concerned, educational issues for children
and young people, deaths on roads and crime
on our streets. An honest response to the following
questions will confirm evidence of addition:
If you
are concerned about your dependence on alcohol,
other drugs or gambling, staff in White Oaks
Rehabilitation Centre (tel 00353 7493 84400
provide a confidential counseling service for
individuals, couples or families. It has been
said that a journey of 1000 km begins with he
first step - begin the journey into recovery
today!!
WHAT IS AN ICON??? –
An icon is not merely a ‘holy picture’.
Its meaning goes deeper than the surface reality
to the spiritual reality of matter transformed.
An iconographer prepares for the work with much
prayer and often with fasting, and with the
conviction that the icon is God’s work
with the iconographer only his instrument. As
much a medium of revelation as the spoken or
printed word, an icon is often referred to as
a ‘visual bible’. It is an important
door opening out to God and to spiritual realities,
and opening also in to the stillness of our
own hearts, where God wants to speak to us.
It is a meeting place of grace and human need.
Genuine
icons are prepared and painted according to
the method and tradition of ancient iconographers.
All the materials are natural and have their
own spiritual symbolism.
A panel of seasoned wood is selected, sanded
and sized. A thin sheet of linen over the wood
(in larger icons) reminds us of the linen wrapped
round Christ’s body taken down from the
Cross. The panel is covered with 15 to 20 coats
of natural gesso (chalk or alabaster mixed with
natural glue made from fish, rabbit skin, or
vegetable matter). The final coats are sanded
down to an ivory smoothness to receive the drawing
and gold leaf background. (Burnished gold, where
it occurs, is laid on a further ground made
of 5 to 8 layers of red clay before being burnished).
Gold signifies light or holiness.
The colours,
egg-tempera, are pure pigments, ground on a
glass slab, and mixed with yolk of egg, egg
being the symbol of life and resurrection. Each
colour also has its symbolism: red for divinity
or exalted dignity or, where relevant, martyrdom;
orange for faith, white for wisdom or purity,
and in conjunction with black for truth: blues
are symbolic of infinity / eternity; and browns
and greens for earth and humanity.
Sr. Aloysius McVeigh
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