This document is a parish newsletter containing announcements for an Irish Catholic parish community. It includes the mass schedule, readers and collectors for upcoming masses. It also lists intentions for masses, upcoming parish events like a novena and community alert meeting, and notices requesting volunteers. Parishioners are asked to check their parish envelope information and return tax reclaim forms to support the parish.

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 September… Carmel Burke
Readers Eucharistic Ministries
ALTAR
SOCIETY
Carmel Moran
Marion Barrett
22 Sep
Kathleen Henry
& Kitty Doyle
14th
Sep
15th
Sep
21st
Sep
22nd
Sep
7:30pm
9:30am
11:30m
7:30pm
9:30am
11:30am
Imelda Henry
Lisa Jordan
Carraroe N.S
Carraroe N.S
Niamh Casey
Eamonn Boylan
Paula Rochford Nevin &
Rose Casey
Tom McGowan
Marie Mulligan &
Aine Moran
Teresa Kelly &
Kitty Doyle
Gerry Price
Catherine Lynch & Brid Blake
Collectors
O Mc Lean &
G Price
J Moran
J Kelly
F Mc Cabe
O Mc Lean &
G Price
J Moran
J Kelly
F Mc Cabe
MASS TIME’S AND INTENTIONS
Sat 7:30pm Jim McDonnell (Anniv)
Sun 9:30am Bridget, Richard & Mary Brennan (Anniv)
Sun 11:30am
Mon/Tue No Morning Mass
Wed 10:00am
Thurs 10:00am Special Intention
Fri 10:00am John Joe Hannon (Anniv)
Sat 7:30pm Andrew O’Beirne (Anniv)
Sun 9:30am Rita Payne (Anniv)
Sun 11:30am Jimmy & Rose Ann Davey (Ann
The Bookstand
Tobernalt Holy Well History & Heritage – Read more on our local heritage.
St Michael’s Family Life Centre – Courses available in the Family Life Centre on
Church Hill, Sligo.
Christian Suffering & Bernadette of Lourdes – St Bernadette’s life.
DVD: Will You Be My Witnesses – Promotional films on vocations to religious life.
Devotion in Honor of Our Mother of Perpetual Help – Prayers to Our Lady
Fishers of Men – This DVD film is intended to renew priests’ sense of fulfilment
Alive Newpaper – Some news items: Descended from Darwin, now a Catholic...Chief
Justice has worrying view of ethics...O’Regan’s Analysis ‘sad, shallow’.
Parish Newsletter
Sunday 15th
September 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
The Deep End – Lost and Found
In today’s Gospel the parables are all about things that are lost and
found. These parables emphasise the unending forgiveness of God and
his rejoicing when we return to him. But as with all parables, we are left
thinking and wondering, disturbed even. God restores all things, the
sheep to the shepherd, the coin to the woman, the son to the Father (in
the story of the Prodigal Son) and it is a frantic search in each parable.
We are encouraged to search, to be ‘seekers’, to discover the lost and,
when we need it, to let ourselves be found.
The sheep may be lost in the fog or wandering aimlessly but the
shepherd is always in search of it. No matter how desperate our
plight we may always rely on the love which will never tire of
seeking us out.
Cardinal Basil Hume

2. Alive Newspaper – Pope Francis Sets His Agenda
Copies of Alive newspaper are available at the bookstand.....Pope Coaches young
Catholics: ‘Play always on the offensive, the whole world needs Jesus’...We no longer
think like Catholics...Parent’s love has remarkable power.
Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of North West Hospice
Will you join in with Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning and help raise funds for North
West Hospice? It takes place on Thursday 19th
September and all funds raised locally
stay local, so all proceeds from coffee mornings held in Sligo, Leitrim and South
Donegal will go directly to North West Hospice. Thanks to Bewley’s, the national
sponsor of Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning, all coffee is provided free to organisers.
If you would like to organise a coffee morning in aid of North West Hospice, please
call us on 071-9143317 or email info@northwesthospice.ie or simply go along and
support a local coffee morning in your area. Thank you for your support.
Meditation - Mercy House
Meditation is a gentle silent form of prayer which enables us to become more aware of
the presence of God in the stillness, at the core of our being. Sessions will resume in
the Sisters of Mercy House, Cranmore Drive on Thursdays at 10:45am and 8:00pm.
All are welcome. No previous experience of this kind of prayer necessary but new
members are requested to contact Rita beforehand at 071-9162930.
Details incorrect?? - LET US KNOW PLEASE
If the name on your Parish envelopes is incorrect or if there have been any changes to
your address please let the Parish Office know at 9162136 or email
carraroe@holywellsligo.com. We are preparing the Parish envelopes for 2013/2014.
Your help would be appreciated as always.
Tax Reclaim Forms
Help us reclaim money from Revenue. Please place your form
in an envelope marked with Fr Jim Murray and return it to us
via the Sunday Collection, post or just drop it into the
Presbytery. So far 63 forms have been returned. Thank you to all who have helped
out. If you need a form, collect it from the doors of the church, fill it in and return it to
us.
Sligo ICA
The Sligo ICA Autumn Federation meeting will be held in Carraroe Community
Centre on Wednesday 16th
October 2013 at 8:00pm. All Sligo Guilds are invited to
attend. Guild Secretaries to give numbers attending to Kathleen 071-9161900.
Oxfam Ireland – Volunteers Needed
If you have a fashion flare, are feeling charitable or have free time on your hands, why
not put your talents to good use and volunteer with Oxfam Ireland in our Sligo store?
Skills Required; Enthusiasm! Contact Michelle at 071-9138913 or email:
sligo@oxfamireland.org OR Call into our shop: 17 Grattan Street, Sligo.
Baptism
We welcome Finn Francis Fahey into the Christian Community, who was baptised
here on 7th
Sept. We congratulate his parents, Andrew Fahey and Fiona Hargadon.
Novena of St Therese of Lisieux - St Therese’s Church, Ballintogher, Sligo
Novena of St Therese of Lisieux taking place in St Therese’s Church, Ballintogher,
Co. Sligo from Monday 23rd
to Friday 27th
September at 7:30pm. Various visiting
speakers throughout the novena.
Samaritans Recruitment Open Evening
Samaritans Open evening on Tues 17th
September at 7.30pm in our centre at 3 The
Mall, Sligo.
Bereavement
We remember in our prayers the very sad passing of young parishioner, Dean
McCormack, Ard Cairn. We express our sympathy to his family and friends at this
difficult time. May he rest in peace.
Speech & Drama in Community Centre
Maye School of Speech & Drama has some places left in the 5yrs to 8yrs age group.
Booking essential. Contact Jacinta Maye at 087-2210845 or jacgormley@gmail.com
Carraroe Community Alert Meeting – Please Attend
A public meeting of the Carraroe Parish Area will take place in Carraroe Community
Centre on Monday 23rd
September at 9:00pm. The purpose of the meeting is to set up
a Community Alert Area. Our neighbouring parish, Ransboro, has recently set up its
own Community Alert Area and it is felt that similar is necessary in our own parish.
The meeting will be addressed by Vanessa Clarke, Community Alert Development
Officer, and a Garda representative. Your support is essential and it will lead to a
more secure environment for us all. Please attend.
Friday 20th
- The Parish Choir Resumes
Parish Choir rehearsal resumes on Friday 20th
September at 7:30pm. New members
welcome...please come along.