This document provides information about Mass times and intentions, readers and Eucharistic ministers, and other parish announcements such as requesting help to reclaim tax for charities and updating the parish census. It also includes notices about pre-marriage courses, bereavements, upcoming retreats, and other community events.

1. Sick and Housebound: Mass is on 107FM. ALTAR
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Just tune your radio before Mass. Please let the Maureen
housebound know about this service in your area. Davey,
Kathleen
ROSARY for the month of Henry, Kitty
September Carmel Burke Doyle
Marie
O'Connor,
Mary Duffy,
Readers Eucharistic Ministries Margaret
Feeney
Collectors
8th Sep 7.30pm Tommy Mc
Manus
Aine Moran &Teresa
Kelly
P Gorman
E Moran
Parish Newsletter
9th Sep 9:30am
Carraroe N.S.
Kitty Doyle
Kathleen Noonan &
J Keegan
Sunday 9th September 2012
11:30a Catherine Lynch R Henry Mass Times: Saturday 7:30pm Sunday 9:30am & 11:30am
m Ann Mc Gowan B Murphy Holidays 10:00am & 7:30pm
Priest: Fr Jim Murray, Email: carraroe@holywellsligo.com
15th Sep Leo & Maura Marren P Gorman Phone: 071-9162136 Mobile: 087-8198466
7:30pm Paddy Loughlin E Moran Websites: www.carraroechurchsligo.com www.holywellsligo.com
16th Sep Brid Blake J Keegan
9:30am Lisa Jordan
Johnny Mc Goldrick R Henry Reclaiming Tax for Charities – Form Enclosed
11:30m Carraroe N.S. & Vincent Dunbar B Murphy
Once again we are asking for your help in reclaiming tax on your generous
contribution to the Church in 2011. In previous years this money for example
Mass Times & Intentions
has helped with the new roof in the Community Centre. Application form
enclosed with the Newsletter or available at the back or side door. If you are a
Sat 7:30pm Michael Fallon (Anni) PAYE worker and have contributed €250 or more in 2011, please fill in the
Sun 9:30am Martina McDonagh (Anni) enclosed form. Your support is appreciated. No private information is
Sun 11:30am Martin & Eileen Melly (Annis) required. Please return the form as soon as possible.
Mon/ Fri No Morning Mass Parish Census
Sat 7:30pm Colm McLean (Anni)
Sun 9:30am Dec of Keaveny & O’ Brien Families (Annis) We are currently updating the Parish Census. If you have made any changes
since last year or have moved into the area, please contact the Parish Office.
Sun 11:30am Rita Payne (Annis)
On average we sent out around 1,200 envelopes every year. Approximately
Tobernalt Holy Well
only 250 are returned on a regular basis. Please use you Parish Envelopes as it
The Mysteries of the Rosary at the Holy Well invite us into prayer and reflection. It is is our only source of income and we need your support to meet the ongoing
a wonderful opportunity to ponder and reflect on the life of Jesus and Our Lady. needs of our Parish.
Please keep the grounds at the Holy Well tidy. Candles are provided, please use them.

2. Community Centre Church Bookstand
Far East – A Brave Battler – Clotilde Nonato – God Answers Our Prayers
The Community Centre is available for Rent on most afternoons and some evenings. Africa – Let us Never Forget – Fullness of Life – Reading
Reasonable rates and plenty of parking. Please contact the Parish Office. Be Healed in Heart – A New Heart/ Mending Homes/ Memories Buried
Tobernalt Holy Well Prayer Book – Novenas and reflections. Copies only €5
Tobernalt Holy Well Tobernalt Holy Well History Book – The story of the Holy Well. New copies €10
Many new books are now available. Please take a look.
The silence and peace is wonderful.
Here the power and presence of God can be found (U.S. Visitor) Parish Calendar
Tobernalt has a wonderful and sacred history and heritage. The 2013 Parish Calendar is currently in production. If you would like to help with
Take the time to visit and pray during the week. production costs by advertising in the Calendar please contact the Parish Office
during the week.
Pre- Marriage Course/ Counselling
Bereaved
If you are getting married now is the time to do you Pre-Marriage by contacting Your prayers are requested for Des Gurrie, Drumiskabole, Carraroe whose funeral
ACCORD at 071-9145641. took place on Saturday. We extend our sympathy to family and friends.
Counselling services for Marriage are also available at this number. May he rest in peace.
Reflection
Today’s gospel is about Jesus healing a deaf person. He uses the word EPHATA. It
Weekend Retreat means, ‘be opened!’ It is a very physical gospel. We often say that the human person
Esker Retreat Centre, Athenry, Galway – September 14th -16th 2012. is capable of God. But engaging God in the Hebrew Scriptures is a very physical
Information leaflet at our Bookstand or contact 091-844007 or email thing. We have to open our eyes and see, to open our ears and listen, to open our
info@redemptoriststsesker.ie mouth and speak, to open our nostrils and smell, open the pores of our skin and
Web: www.redemptorististsesker.ie touch. Yes, see God, listen to God, speak to God, smell God, touch God in nature…
You have to ‘open up’ all your senses to do that…
In the gospel stories of Jesus’ healings, Jesus is also very physical. He doesn’t just give
Weight Watchers – Carraroe Community Centre people a verbal blessing and they are healed and that’s it. He doesn’t just impose
Classes every Thursday morning 9 to 10 am and Thursday evening 7 to 8pm in hands on them. He puts his finger in the deaf man’s ears, and says EPHATA.: OPEN
Carraroe Parish Hall. Everyone welcome. Enquiries to Ann 0872362487 UP. He takes his own saliva and puts it on the man’s tongue, and says EPHATA :
OPEN UP. He breathes out and his breath enters into the man’s nostrils, and he says
Oxfam Sligo – Volunteers Needed EPHATA : OPEN UP. He looks up to heaven and guides the man’s eyes there, and he
says EPHATA : OPEN UP. And yes, he does impose his hand on the man, and the
4 hours per week. Drop into our shop on 17 Grattan Street, Sligo to pick up an man is touching God in Jesus, and Jesus says EPHATA : OPEN UP. All the senses are
application form or call Karen or Michelle on 071-9138913 for more details. involved. If only they were open, they would be aware of God…
We don’t tune in to nature enough. We are too closed to its possibilities and its
Meditation for Beginners processes. We don’t sense the unexpected places it is going…. We assume it is all a
closed system. A closed system doesn’t interact with its environment, and everything
A gently form of prayer which enables us to become more aware of the presence of flattens out within it, until it lapses into complete inertia.
God at the core of our being. Sessions in Mercy House, Cranmore, Sligo on But something is saying EPHATA to nature, at least every few months… It is an open
Thursday’s beginning at 10:00am and 8:00pm. No previous experience necessary. system, interacting with everything around it, coming up with new things that don’t fit
Contact Sr. Rita at 071-9162930 what used to be, presenting us with novel information all the time, becoming more and
more complex and intriguing…
St. Michael’s Family Life Centre, Church Hill, Sligo Angelus
Autumn/Winter Brochure now available at Church Bookstand.
Enrolment for courses and Saturday seminars will take place on
The Angelus is our Diocesan magazine. If you would like to order copies in
Monday/Tuesday September 10th/11th and ongoing.
Please contact the Centre at 071-9170329 for further details advance for the year, please call into the sacristy after weekends Masses.