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know about this service in your area. Moran,
Marian
ROSARY for the month of June Jim Furey Barrett
Maureen
Davey,
Kathleen
Henry,
Readers Eucharistic Ministries Kitty Doyle
Collectors
9th June 7.30pm Carraroe N.S Nuala Flanagan & Paula P Gorman
Rochford Nevin E Moran
10th June 9:30am
11:30am
Geraldine Lynch
Imelda Henry
Rose Casey
Tom McGowan & Marie
Mulligan
J Keegan
R Henry
Parish Newsletter
16th June 7:30pm Joe Casey
Aine Moran & Teresa Kelly
B Murphy
P Gorman
Sunday 10 rd June 2012
Kitty Doyle E Moran
Mass Times: Saturday 7:30pm Sunday 9:30am & 11:30am
17th June 9:30am Carraroe N.S J Keegan Holidays 10:00am & 7:30pm
Kathleen Noonan & Priest: Fr Jim Murray, Email: carraroe@holywellsligo.com
11:30am Mary Keegan Catherine Lynch R Henry Phone: 071-9162136 Mobile: 087-8198466
B Murphy Websites: www.carraroechurchsligo.com www.holywellsligo.com
Mass Times & Intentions
Sat 7:30pm John & Josephine Curran (Anni)
Recent Baptisms
Sun 9:30am Mary & Eugene Fallon (Anni)
Sun 11:30am Mary Mai (Annis)
Mon No Morning Mass Congratulation to Lee and Christine Johns, Hawthorns, Carraroe and we
Tue 10:00am Dec of McGovern & Scanlon Families welcome Cian Lee Mark into the Christina community.
Wed 10:00am
Thur 10:00am Pre- Marriage Course/ Counselling
Fri 10:00am If you are getting married now is the time to do you Pre-Marriage by
Sat 7:30pm Aignus Hogan, Ann Welsh (Anni) contacting ACCORD at 071-9145641. Counselling services for Marriage are
Sun 9:30am Frs. Paul & Michael Cryan (Annis) also available at this number.
Sun 11:30am Brendan & Plunkett Gilmartin (Annis)
Diocesan Priesthood in the Elphin Diocese
The Elphin Diocese is seeking men who may be considering Diocesan
Pilgrimage to Fatima
Priesthood for August 2012. Without men who will accept the challenge,
8th October 2012, 7 nights – departure from Dublin.
many changes will take place in our Diocese in the near future due to falling
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numbers. Further information from Fr. Jim at 071-9162136 or Fr. John at
Further details from Patricia Flaherty on 071 9637077 or Martin on 071 9145491 090-6626189
or Pilgrimages Abroad, Lauri Duffy Travel
German Courses
For Beginners and Pre-Junior Certs at Mercy College Sligo 23rd to 27th July Phone 087

2. 4198287 or e mail mcsgerman@yahoo.com Congratulations to Niall McDonagh and Niamh Brady, Dublin, who were
married in Carraroe Church on Friday. We wish them every blessing in the
future.
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Reflection – Body and Blood of Jesus
Africa –Eucharistic Congress/ continuing to pass on the faith
Far East – The Listener/ Innocent Missionary/ Hard Saying Back in the 1970s, when there was a lot of liturgical innovation going on, Dorothy Day invited a
Favourite Novenas to Jesus – Easter/ Christmas/ Ascension young priest to celebrate mass at the Catholic Worker. He decided to do something that he
Be Healed in Heart – A New Heart/ Mending Homes/ Memories Buried thought was relevant and hip. He asked Dorothy if she had a coffee cup he could borrow. She
Novena to St. Martin – Nine Day Prayers and More found one in the kitchen and brought it to him. And, he took that cup and used it as the chalice
Tobernalt Holy Well Prayer Book – Easter Prayers and Reflections to celebrate mass.
When it was over, Dorothy picked up the cup, found a small gardening tool, and went to the
Tobernalt Holy Well History Book – The story of the Holy Well – Original Copies, Only backyard. She knelt down, dug a hole, kissed the coffee cup, and buried it in the earth.
€5 With that simple gesture, Dorothy Day showed that she understood something that so many of
Eucharistic Congress us today don’t: she knew that Christ was truly present in something as ordinary as a ceramic
cup. And that it could never be just a coffee cup again.
The Eucharistic Congress takes place this week in Dublin. Most of the events take She understood the power and reality of His presence in the Blessed Sacrament,
place at the R.D.S. and the final Mass on Sunday next at Croke Park. Details of the which is really the sum and substance of what we celebrate on this feast, Corpus Christi. The
programme are available at our bookstand. If you need further information please reason for what we will do today – celebrating with the monstrance, the music, the procession –
contact St. Mary’s at 071-9162670 or looks up Eucharistic Congress on the web. isn’t to glorify an inanimate object, a bit of bread contained in glass.
It is to remind the world that in that bread we have been given Christ.
Information on the daily programme and up-to –date changes are available.
Not an idea. Not a symbol. Not an abstract bit of arcane theology. No.
It is wider and deeper and more mysterious than that.
Alive Magazine Look at that host -- and you look at Christ.
Copies of Alive available at the back and side door of the Church with many Centuries ago, the early saint of the church, Justin Martyr, described how the first Christians
interesting articles. received communion. They did it the way we do it today, offering their outstretched hands, one
over another. And he put it so beautifully: “They make of their hands a throne,” he wrote. They
make themselves ready to receive a king.
Adoration for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress – Our Parish Do we understand that today? I’m not so sure. Too often, I think, we see the minister of Holy
Communion as just a liturgical Pez dispenser – passing out a sliver of bread, again and again
Thank you to all who attended the special time of Adoration in the Cathedral on and again, and we don’t truly, truly, realize what is happening.
Friday and Saturday. A special thank you to you who came along from our parish for I’ll tell you what is happening.
the hour on Friday evening from 10:00 – 11:00pm.
We are receiving an incalculable gift. We are taking into our hands, and placing on our tongues,
something astounding.
Bereaved We are being given God.
Look at the host, and you look at Christ.
Your prayers are requested for Michael Gilmartin, Springfield, brother of Angela Too often, we take it for granted. It’s just one more part of the mass. Something else to do.
Leonard, Drumiskabole whose funeral took place last Monday. Lord, may he rest in No. It isn’t.
peace and comfort the bereaved. When I was in formation, I remember a talk given on the Eucharist by then-Father Caggiano.
He spoke of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the holiest saints of the church. During his entire life,
Tobernalt Holy Well Francis received the Eucharist only three times. It was that sacred to him – and he felt himself
that undeserving.
The current wet weather is very evident at the Holy Well reminding us of the nature He understood, deeply, the words we pray before we receive communion.
“Lord I am not worthy...”
of our outdoor Church situated in the heart of our Parish. This is a special place to
pause and pray in the great outdoors. None of us is. And yet, he gives us himself anyway. The God who became man for us...again and
again becomes bread for us.
Recent Weddings Look at the host, and you look at Christ.
Everything we are, everything we believe, everything we celebrate around this altar comes
down to that incredible truth. What began two thousand years ago in an upper room continues

3. here, and now, and at altars around the world. The very source of our salvation is transformed
into something you can hold in the palm of your hand.