Bulletin: 14th November 2021

PARISH BULLETIN – 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – 14th November 2021

 

SUNDAY MASSES

VIGIL MASS

St. Eugene’s, Moneyneena:                5 pm

Holy Rosary, Draperstown:                6.15 pm [webcam]

St. Patrick’s, Keenaught:             7.30 pm

 

SUNDAY

St. Columba’s, Straw:                         9 am

St. Mary’s, Coolcalm:                  10 am [webcam]

St. Patrick’s, Sixtowns:                       11 am

Holy Rosary, Draperstown:               12 noon [webcam]

 

DAILY MASS TIMES FOR THIS WEEK

Holy Rosary Church:  Monday and Wednesday ~ 11 am.  Friday ~ 7.30 pm.

St. Mary’s Church, Coolcalm:  Tuesday, Thursday and Friday ~ 11 am.

 

All Masses in St. Mary’s, Coolcalm are transmitted live via the Desertmartin parish webcam:

https://www.churchservices.tv/Desertmartin

All Masses in the Holy Rosary Church are transmitted live on the Ballinascreen parish webcam:

https://www.churchservices.tv/Draperstown

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Fr. Peter Madden P.P. V.F.                                    

31 Sixtowns Road, Draperstown

Phone:  028 7962 8376

Email:  ballinascreenparish@gmail.com

 

Fr. Dermot McGirr C.C.

50 Tobermore Road, Desertmartin

Telephone:  028 7963 2196

Email:  desertmartinparish@gmail.com

 

Fr. John Downey C.C.

36 Moneyneena Road

Telephone:  028 7962 8375

Email:  j.downey75@btinternet.com

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DEATHS AND ANNIVERSARIES

Please remember in your prayers:

 

Anne McGuigan, 3 Gortahurk Road, and Pat McCluskey, Bantry, Dublin, who were buried during the week and Victor Lynn, Cordarragh who died recently.

 

Frances Wilson, Patsy Cassidy, Annie McBride, Josephine Moore, Walter Bell, Margaret McBride, Charlie Kelly, Willie O’Kane, Brigid Buckley and Sharon Cameron who died recently.

 

Mickey Joe McGuigan, Paddy Joe McGuigan, Bernard McGuigan, Johnny McDaid, Nathan Doyle, Peter McGuigan, Margaret McGovern, Gladys Wilson, Vera McKenna and Annie Moran whose anniversaries occur at this time.

 

MONTH’S MIND MASS

The Month’s Mind Mass for Margaret McBride, 51 Luney Road, will be celebrated on Friday 19th November at 11 am in St. Mary’s Church, Coolcalm.

 

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THANK YOU for your generous contributions to the Parish.

Last Week:

Sunday Collection/Priests’ Collection envelopes:  £737.10.

Restoration Fund envelopes:  £379.00.

Mission Sunday Collection envelopes:  £60.00  (total so far:  £647.69).

 

Those who contribute with a church collection envelope, you are welcome to return them at any parish Mass or put them through the Parochial House letterbox at any time.  Thank you.

Thank you also to all parishioners who are supporting the Parish by direct debit.  Your contributions are appreciated very much.

 

 

  SPECIAL COLLECTION ON SUNDAY TO HELP THE HUNGRY

There is a special collection this weekend to support Trócaire’s emergency appeal to help people suffering terribly from hunger in East Africa at this time.  If you would like to contribute to this collection, please put your DONATION IN AN ENVELOPE, write TROCAIRE on the front of it and place it in the collection box at the back of the church at Sunday Mass or put it though the letterbox at the Parochial House.  The donations will be sent on to Trócaire as soon as possible.  Thank you for your generosity.

 

 

The Parish is having a CHRISTMAS DRAW this year.  There will be draws every day of the 12 days between Christmas Day and Tuesday 5th January 2021.  As before, everyone’s ticket will be in for All the draws, which means you have 33 chances to win prizes.  Total prize fund is £5,000.  TICKETS are £20 each, available from:

  • the Churches before and after Mass

  • Desertmartin Parish Office on a Thursday between 10.30 am and 3 pm

  • from McGirr at the Parochial House, 50 Tobermore Road

  • Heron’s Gift Shop, Draperstown

  • Moneyneena Post Office

A ticket would make a nice Christmas gift to send inside your Christmas cards to members of your family and friends this Christmastime.

If anyone would like a Ticket Posted to them, please contact Fr. McGirr on 028 7963 2196 or email desertmartinparish@gmail.com

PRIZES ~ on the first 10 days there are 3 prizes each day of £100.  On 11th Day the draw will be for 2 prizes of £500 and on the 12th and last Day of Christmas there is one final prize of £1,000.  Please let your family and friends know about our special Christmas Draw.

Thank you for all your generous support of the Draw last Christmas.  This year’s Draw will be essential to helping with the basic running of the parish during these times into 2022.  Good luck to everyone who enters the Twelve Days of Christmas Draw.

 

 

 

ONLINE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

The online Book of Remembrance, for all who have died since this time last year, will be open during the month of November.   Names of deceased loved ones who have died since November 2020 may now be added to this online book.  Parishioners from Ballinascreen and Desertmartin who wish to have the name of their recently departed loved one added to this online book are invited to please email the name to ballinascreenparish@gmail.com

The online book will be available to view on the Ballinascreen Parish website at https://www.parishofballinascreen.com (the Desertmartin Parish website does not have the feature to display the online book)

If you submitted name(s) of deceased loved ones last year please do not resubmit these names again as their names are already in the Book of Remembrance.

 

RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES FOR FAMILIES FOR NOVEMBER

A short booklet for families has been created by the Derry Diocese to highlight the month of November as a time to remember and pray for our dearly departed.  It also has information about a remembrance event at Knock Shrine.  We hope it may bring comfort, solace and the light of Christ to many people during November.  This booklet may be of particular interest to families and those who are housebound.  This booklet and other appropriate resources may be downloaded from Derry Diocesan website:  https://www.derrydiocese.org/news/november-family-prayer-at-home

 

 

KNOCKNAGIN HALL COMMITTEE

Thank you to all who took time to complete our community survey.  If you have still some to return, please leave at St. Mary’s Church porch, the Hall or Knocknagin school.

Desertmartin Walk for Health Group will meet at the car park at the Desertmartin,chapel on Friday 19th November at 2 pm for an afternoon walk weather permitting.

SPRED Group next meeting on Monday 15th November from 7 pm to 8.30 pm

Making Life Better, supported by the Public Health Agency.

Exercise every Tuesday at 11.30 am with Thomasina.

Line-Dancing every Wednesday at 7.30 pm.

Crochet Class with Ceiline Bleeks on Tuesdays from 7 pm to 9 pm.  £5 per Session.

Come along and join in any of the sessions for chat, fun, exercise and friendship.

Dance and Movement on Friday evenings from 7 pm to 8.30 pm with Charmaine from Arts Care continuing for the next five weeks funded by the Public Health Agency.  Charmaine will use dance and movement to help us feel good in both body and mind.  We will share stories, talk, laugh and move together to our favourite music.  Come along and join in any of the above sessions for chat, fun, exercise and friendship.

Places are still available for these sessions.

Due to Covid restrictions, it is important to register for sessions as numbers are Limited.  Contact Kathleen on 077 6427 7809, Anne on 028 7964 2711 or Olive on 078 8761 4094.

 

  SLIEVEGALLION COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL

Slieve Gallion Community Preschool is having a Craft Fair next Saturday 20th November from 10 am – 1 pm.

 

YOGA

There are Yoga Classes in Magherafelt led by Bernie on Monday nights at 5.45 pm in the Parish Centre across the road from the Church.  Classes are 80 minutes long.  A block of 6 classes is £60.  Anyone joining now, it’s £50.  Bring yoga mat pillow and blanket.  For more information, tel. 077 5900 1664.

 

KILCRONAGHAN CENTRE
Christmas Cake Making and Decorating.  2 week course on Thursday 18thand Thursday 25th November at 10 am.  All ingredients included.  £15 p.p.  Places must be prebooked.

Telephone 028 7962 7826 or email manager@kilcronaghan.co.uk to book your place or for more information.

 

DERRY DIOCESAN YOUTH

Derry Diocesan Youth will be holding a Youth Event in the Carmelite Retreat Centre, Termonbacca, Derry on 21st November from 12 noon – 3.30 pm.  This event is for young people in the diocese aged 14 and up to come and get involved with their faith and celebrate world youth day in preparation for the World Youth Day in Lisbon 2023.  If any young person would like to book, please email lizzie.rea@derrydiocese.org or message any @derryyouth social media pages. Cost £5 to secure a place at this event.  All deposits to be paid before the 16th November.

 

DROMANTINE RETREAT CENTRE

The following Retreat and Workshop will be offered by Fr. Hugh Lagan SMA:

‘Broken Open’ Workshop – How difficult times can help us grow.  Friday 19th November at 5 pm to Sunday 21st November at 2 pm.  Cost £200 / €230.

For enquiries and reservations, tel. 028 3082 1964.  Email: admin@dromantineconference.com

 

PARISH ANNIVERSARY MASS

If parishioners in Desertmartin and Ballinascreen wish to have their loved one prayed for at the 11 am Mass in Coolcalm or the 7.30 pm Mass in Holy Rosary on Friday, phone the Desertmartin Parish Office answering machine on 028 7939 7047 or email desertmartinparish@gmail.com by 12 noon on Thursday of the relevant week with the name and address of your deceased loved one.  These Masses from Coolcalm and the Holy Rosary may be viewed on the respective Parish webcams.

For Coolcalm go to www.desertmartinparish.com and click on the blue webcam button.

For Holy Rosary, go to www.parishofballinascreen.com and click on the word ‘webcams’ in yellow.

 

COOLCALM AND KEENAUGHT OPEN FOR PRIVATE PRAYER

St. Mary’s, Coolcalm, will be open for private prayer and to light candles this week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 am to 2 pm.

St. Patrick’s, Keenaught, will be open for private prayer and to light candles this week on Thursday and Friday from 11 am to 2 pm.

You must wear a face covering while entering and leaving the church.  Also, please use hand sanitiser at the door.  When you call into the church please pick up a coloured card at the door on the way to your seat.  When you have finished praying please leave the card behind on your seat.  That seat will be cleaned later in the day.  Do not sit on a seat where a card has been left behind.  Thank you.

 

NUMBERS ATTENDING SUNDAY MASSES IN KEENAUGHT AND COOLCALM

In Desertmartin and Ballinascreen anyone may attend Sunday Mass inSt. Patrick’s, Keenaught; St. Columba’s, Straw; St. Eugene’s, Moneyneena and Holy Rosary, Draperstown.

The 2-week townland area rota continues in St. Mary’s, Coolcalm for Sunday Masses.

 

SYNODAL PROCESS – WALKING TOGETHER

In these days, the Catholic Church throughout the world and in Ireland is beginning a series of conversations about what God wants of his people at this time.  These conversations are often referred to as a Synodal Process.  ‘Synodal’ comes from a Greek word which means ‘walking together’.  This weekend marks the official launch of the Synod by Pope Francis in Rome.  Over the next couple of weeks Bishop Donal will launch the process in our own diocese and more information will follow.  Please say each day in your prayers the following prayer for the success of the Synodal Process which is both old and new.

 

PRAYER FOR THE SYNOD

We stand before you, Holy Spirit,
as we gather together in your name.

With you alone to guide us,
make yourself at home in our hearts;
Teach us the way we must go
and how we are to pursue it.

We are weak and sinful;
do not let us promote disorder.
Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path
nor partiality influence our actions.

Let us find in you our unity
so that we may journey together to eternal life
and not stray from the way of truth
and what is right.

All this we ask of you,
who are at work in every place and time,
in the communion of the Father and the Son, forever and ever.
Amen.

To learn more about the Synodal Pathway for the Catholic Church in Ireland, please view

www.catholicbishops.ie/synod

 

 

STRESS CONTROL ONLINE  

Stress is a normal reaction to the rapidly changing and uncertain times we are all living in at the moment.  If you are feeling a bit more stressed than usual and would like to learn some great ways, free-of-charge, to deal with common problems like anxiety, depression, panicky feelings, poor sleep and poor wellbeing then come along to our online Stress Control class.  ‘Stress Control’ is a six-session cognitive-behavioural therapy class used extensively in community-settings by the NHS (UK) and HSE (Ireland) and across the world.  You can find out more here: https://ni.stresscontrol.org/

As you can’t come to a regular Stress Control class due to the current circumstances, Stress Control will come to you and live stream the sessions.  Each session will be available on the YouTube channel from 9 am and will be 62 hours after the start time.  The sessions will be led by Dr. Jim White, consultant clinical psychologist, who created the class and who has taught most of the NHS (UK) and HSE (Ireland) trainers who would normally be running classes across the country.

To take part:

  1. Go to https://ni.stresscontrol.org/ where you can learn more about the class and get the dates. Everything you need to successfully complete the class – the booklets, self-assessment, relaxation and mindfulness – can be found in the ‘Free zone’.  If you can, please read, and start working on, the booklets in the ‘Preparing for the course’ section before Session 1.

  1. On the homepage, click on the ‘Stress Control Online’ link to access our YouTube channel where the classes will be available to view at the scheduled times. If you click the ‘Subscribe’ button on our YouTube page (free), you will receive notifications when a new session is available.  You can also follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdCfzKgmXbB30baWLv6L5-g

  1. The session will begin exactly on time, so make sure you are there from the start. Sessions run for about 90 minutes and there will be a 10-minute break in the middle.

  1. Each session is one piece of the jigsaw in tackling your Stress. By coming to each class, the jigsaw will form, and the big picture can emerge, making you better able to handle your stress.  This is cognitive-behavioural therapy so it is crucial you practice the skills you will learn between sessions.

Life is very hard for us just now and there are no easy solutions or magic cures, but, with hard work and determination, we can boost our resilience to cope with these difficult times and come out the other end stronger. Please pass this on to anyone who you think might benefit from the class.

 

 

 

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