1. Sick and Housebound: Mass is on 107FM.
Just tune your radio before Mass. Please let the
housebound know about this service in your area.
ROSARY for the Month of June Jim Furey
Readers Eucharistic Ministries
ALTAR
SOCIETY
Carmel Moran
Marian Barrett
Kathleen Henry
Kitty Doyle
22nd
June
23rd June
29th
June
30th
June
7:30pm
9:30am
11:30m
7:30pm
9:30am
11:30am
Carraroe N.S
Paddy Galvin
Jimmy Hughes
Paddy Loughlin
Carraroe N.S
Jimmy Hughes
Mary Murphy &
Vincent Dunbar
Anne Hickey
Frances Kelly &
Mary Rose Casey
Maureen Casey& Mary Davey
Martin F Scanlon
Mary C Scanlon & Sheila
Murphy
Collectors
C Murphy
J Scanlon
J Mc Moreland
G Quinn
Joe Scanlon
C Murphy
J Scanlon
J Mc Moreland
G Quinn
Joe Scanlon
MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS
Sat 7:30pm Aignus Hoan & Ann Welch (Annis)
Sun 9:30am John & Mary Mulligan (Annis)
Sun 11:30am Al Hart (Anni)
Mon/Tue No Morning Mass
Wed 10:00am Patrick & Lelia Luskin (Annis)
Thur 10:00am
Fri 10:00am
Sat 7:30pm Danny Henry (Anni)
Sun 9:30am
Sun 11:30am Nicholas Tancred (Anni)
Church Bookstand – Selection
The Blessed Eucharist – Exploring the Mass
Prayer for the Sick – Special prayers for the sick in our Community.
Prayer Cards – Wide Variety
Diocesan Book – The story of our Diocese – only €20. Copies in Sacristy
Tobernalt Holy Well Prayer Book – Novena for Health/ Our Lady and more
Tobernalt Holy Well History Book – Penal Ireland/ St. Patrick and more
Parish Newsletter
Sunday 23rdJune 2013
Mass Times: Saturday 7:30pm Sunday 9:30am & 11:30am
Holidays 10:00am & 7:30pm
Priest: Fr Jim Murray, Email: carraroe@holywellsligo.com
Phone: 071-9162136 Mobile: 087-8198466
Websites: www.carraroechurchsligo.com www.holywellsligo.com
Tobernalt Holy Well
I visited the Holy Well for the first time recently although I
have been coming to Sligo for a long time. It is a beautiful
place and has a great sense of history; you get a real sense of
the people who have been coming here for over 2,000 years.
Definitely a must visit, short or long depending on your
inclination. We went back at 6am on Garland Sunday as the
Bishop was saying Mass, we had to walk in quite a distance
because of the crowds, it was raining but they did not seem to be put off by that. The
rumours of the death of the Catholic Church seemed a little premature here. (Trip Advisor)
The Holy Well History and Heritage book give a full account of this sacred soil. Extra
items also feature on penal Ireland, St. Patrick and many stories on the Holy Well. Copies
from Veritas or Liber bookshop, Sligo.
Defibrillator in Our Parish
If you would like to help or make a donation towards this project, please contact
Fr. Jim during the week.
Parish Choirs
Our Parish Choirs are always looking for new members. Please let us know if
you would like to help out by contacting the Parish Office.

2. Parish Web Sits
Church : www.carraroechruchsligo.com
Holy Well: www.holywellsligo.com
Please use our web sites for information and news. Also please use our face book.
Tobernalt Holy Well – Garland Weekend
The last weekend in July is our annual celebrations at the Holy Well. Below are details
of the programme. No Mass in the Church on this weekend. This year, our year of
faith is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and honour our Holy Well.
Friday 26th July: In Carraroe Church in honour of the Holy Well
6 - 7pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
7:00pm Mass in Preparation for the weekend
Saturday 27th July: At the Holy Well
7:30pm Evening Mass - Honouring our Lady
Sunday 28th July: At the Holy Well
6:00am Dawn Mass - Religious Heritage
10:00am Morning Mass - Sacred Prayer
12:00noon Mass with Prayers for Healing & Anointing of the Sick
The Holy Well History and Heritage book is a great source of information on the Holy
Well. Copies at the bookstand or from Veritas or Liber Bookshop, Sligo.
Newsletter
Items for our Parish Newsletter should be with us by Wednesday evening for
inclusion.
Special Collection – Peter’s Pence
The special collection envelop this week is for Peter’s Pence. The Peter's Pence
collection is sent to Rome. It is used by the pope to support special charitable
projects in developing countries as well as defraying expenses of the work of
the Church.
St. Enda’s National School
We wish the staff and students of our school a
happy and safe summer as the school holidays
begin. We extend our prayers and support to the
boys and girls of 6th
class as they journey into secondary school and
begin a new chapter in life.
Reflection – 12th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s Gospel text is set in the solitude of Jesus’ prayer interrupted by his disciples. He
challenged them by two questions, questions that must have sounded rather odd to them.
Rather than hearing them and wondering what’s wrong with Jesus, let us hear them from
Jesus’ point of view as an enquiry into the motivation of his disciples’ companionship. Jesus
seemed to be testing how they and others had perceived his teaching, ministry and behaviour.
Did they see and perceive beyond their own biased preferences? Thus far in Luke’s Gospel
narrative (chapter 3) Jesus had been baptized and marked by the Holy Spirit. He had been
(chapter 4) tempted in the desert, had taught in synagogues throughout Galilee causing some
controversy in Nazareth, cast out a demon and healed Peter’s mother-in-law, and had then cast
out numerous other demons before departing Galilee to preach and teach in Judea. Then,
(chapter 5) he preached from a boat and supervised a miraculous catch of fish, cleansed a leper,
healed a paralyzed man, called Levi the tax collector to discipleship and taught him and a large
crowd of tax collectors and Pharisees. He then (chapter 6) violated the Sabbath law against
work by picking grain and healing a man’s withered right hand, chose and called more close
disciples, and preached his Sermon on the Plain. He demonstrated (chapter 7) tremendous
kindness by healing the servant of a Roman centurion, pronouncing the Gentile centurion’s
faith the greatest he’d so far encountered, restored life to the deceased son of a widowed
mother, and came to the attention again of the disciples of John the Baptizer. He also dined with
and among Pharisees where he was anointed by a public sinner whose sins he publically
forgave. Going further (chapter 8), he taught extensively in parables, restored to life the
recently dead daughter of Jairus, and inadvertently healed a woman’s haemorrhage causing
some puzzling self-consternation. Then (chapter 9), he gave his close disciples the opportunity to
engage in ministry by sending them out, and while they were on mission, his reputation was
brought to the attention of Herod the Tetrarch who wondered aloud whether Jesus might be
John the Baptist reincarnate whom he had ordered beheaded. Upon the disciples’ return, he
provided food for five thousand men plus others. Thus, after all this, Jesus had retired to
solitude and posed the questions we hear today. Who was he who could do all this? Who could
fail to wonder about who Jesus was? The lectionary leads us to this point in Luke’s Gospel
narrative only to skip over the Transfiguration (a feast which we celebrate annually in August)
which is, in the literary flow of the Gospel, a “eureka moment!” to parallel the slightly milder
“eureka moment” of his baptism (chapter 3). In today’s narrative, the disciples parroted what
the larger crowds had said. But, in the early Church’s memory, it was Peter who had the
personal insight, “You are the Christ!” Actually, in the Aramaic of the original event, he would
have said “You are the Messiah!” i.e., the anointed of God! But strangely, Jesus’ retort was a
collective rebuke! Peter and the disciples were scolded for giving a correct answer! Jesus
effectively omitted the reply and immediately predicted his necessary (read: inescapable)
suffering, death and resurrection with which he made a necessary connection to true
discipleship. Luke hints that Jesus’ future suffering was on his mind in an all-consuming way.
Discipleship always entailed the cross, then and now. This prediction of his future passion and
death is a hint that this story was elaborated upon after Jesus’ death which anachronized (i. e.,
read details from a later era back into the earlier story) the idea of a cross into his teaching on
discipleship and ministry. Remember, the Gospel narrative was written in hindsight. The
mystery of losing one’s life in order to save it was the foundation of Gospel generosity,
personified in Jesus’ own life. It is the individual-personal-human dimension of the Paschal
Mystery.