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SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Masses for the Week
Sunday 19th SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
(Day of Prayer for Temperance)
6.15pm Vigil -Ederney
7.30pm Vigil -Pettigo
9.30am -Lettercran
11.00am -Ederney
MONDAY 20th 7.30pm -Pettigo
TUESDAY 21st 10.00am -Pettigo
WEDNESDAY 22nd Ash Wednesday
7.00am -Pettigo
7.30pm -Pettigo
THURSDAY 23rd 7.00am -Pettigo
FRIDAY 24th 7.00am -Pettigo
SUNDAY 26th FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
6.15pm Vigil -Ederney
7.30pm Vigil -Pettigo
9.30am -Lettercran
11.00am -Ederney
ANNIVERSARIES & INTENTIONS
Saturday 18th -John Robinson, Carne
-Patricia Alonso,Wicklow
Sunday 19th -Peter, Mary Jane & Martin Gormley
Monday 20th -Pat, Elizabeth & Ted Quinn, St Patrick’s Tce
Wednesday 22nd (7.30pm) -Philip & Bridget Byrne, Kimmid
Thursday 23rd -People of the Parish
Friday 24th -Intentions of Lough Derg Pilgrims
Saturday 25th -John, Minnie & Sally Murphy, Termon Villas
OFFERTORY PROCESSION
Sunday 26th February
Vigil -Anniversary
9.30am -The Colton Family, Gorlick (Pauric)
Ash Wednesday:
A day of fast and abstinence. Ashes will be blessed and distributed at each Mass.
Recently deceased
Dympna Mc Grath, Belleek
EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
Four tickets for the Statio Orbis, the final Mass of the Congress in Croke Park on Sunday 17th June have been allocated to Pettigo Parish. Admission is by ticket only. Anyone who is interested may collect a form at the Lough Derg Office on or before Monday 20th February.
A bus will be organised to travel to the Congress on Saturday 16th June. Anyone interested should contact John Calgie on 048 686 31177 or Mac Mc Kervey on 048 686 32504.
CONFIRMATION PLEDGE
The Confirmation Pledge is a promise, made to God in the presence of the Community, to abstain from alcoholic drink until a definite age. The Pledge will be taken at the Vigil Mass in Pettigo on Saturday 25th
February.
CELEBRATING LENT
Mass in Pettigo at 7.00am on four mornings
Mass in Lettercran at 7.30pm on Monday evening
Rosary & Way of the Cross in Pettigo on Wednesday evening
PARISH DRAW
Cards and subscriptions should be handed in at the Lough Derg Office before Tuesday 21st February.
THE NOVENA OF HOPE AT THE GRAAN will take place from Sunday 4th March to Monday 12th March. Sunday services are 9am, 10.30am, 12noon and 4.00pm. Weekdays 12.30pm and 8.00pm, except
Wednesday which is at 11am and 8pm. Saturday 10th Mass is at 11am and 6.30pm. In additions there are services for the sick on Wednesday 7th & Saturday 10th at 2.30pm. For further information contact 048 66322272.
for donations towards Lettercran Chapel €100, £300, €100 & €100.
PETTIGO GAA
The Lotto Draw took place on Monday night. There was no Jackpot winner. The numbers drawn were 1, 2, 6, 20 & 26. There was one €25 winner: Stephen Mc Elrone. The Jackpot next week will be €4,500 and the Draw will take place in The Diamond Bar.
Dance takes place on Saturday 18th February in Potter’s Bar. Music by Mucky Ducks.
MISSALETTES & PARISH NEWSLETTER
To help defray the cost of purchasing missalettes & printing newsletters a minimum of contribution of 10c for a missalettes & 20c for a newsletter would be appreciated. (The contribution for the newsletter should be put in the basket along with that for missalettes).
LOUGH DERG
A DAY OF FRIENDSHIP AND PRAYER on Ash Wednesday 22nd February. The Guest Speaker is Brother David Jardine, Director of Interdenominational Divine Healing Ministeries. Boats run from 10.30am. Prayer Service at 12noon, followed by lunch. To register phone 071 9861518 or email manager@loughderg.org. Suggested donation €20.
JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND APPLICATIONS FORMS for seasonal employment are now available from the Lough Derg Office. Alternatively, download them from www.loughderg.org
IRISH FOR PARENTS on Thursday 23rd February from 7.00pm until 9.00pm. To enrol contact The Forge on 071 9861924.
CARD-PLAY on Tuesday 28th February in Lettercran Hall at 8.30pm.
Proceeds in aid of Motor Neurone Disease Association.
WOMEN’S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER on Friday 2nd March at 8pm in Pettigo Methodist Church. Everyone welcome.
GOD NEEDS YOU
Monastic Weekend for young women seeking to find God’s way for them. This will take place on Friday (approx 4pm to 8pm) 2nd, Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th of March in St Joseph’s Monastery Mount Carmel, Loughrea, Co Galway. Please write to above address or email loughrea@carmelitesisters.ie
CHILD MIGRANT TALK IN DONEGAL COUNTY MUSEUM
The local Historian and Author Joe O’Louglin from Belleek will talk about Child Immigrants to Australia from 1947 to 1957 on Wednesday 22nd February at 1pm in The Donegal County Museum, Letterkenny.
After the emergency and Second World War, there was a mass
deportation of children as young as three shipped to Canada, New Zealand, the former Rhodesia & Australia, a practice that continued as late as 1970. A key motivation for child migration was to maintain the racial unity of the Empire and populate the Dominions of Canada, Rhodesia, New Zealand & Australia, with ‘good white stock’. Joe’s talk will include the story of Paddy Monaghan who was taken out of an orphanage in Co Sligo aged 10 and sent to Australia.
BORDERLINE PLAYERS
The Pantomime ‘Bluebeard takes place on Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd March at 8pm, Saturday 3rd at 8.30pm & Sunday 4th March at 7pm. Tickets are €9 per adult & €5 per child, family discounts will apply.
FIERCE FRIENDSHIP
This is one of the many conflict stories in Mark where Jesus is challenged by the religious authorities. They are none too pleased that he is forgiving sins because as far as they are concerned, only God can do that. It is easy for them to use the words of forgiveness, but how many of them can heal the paralysed man and let him walk? Jesus wants to heal the man but also to show people that he has authority! And what of the faith of the paralysed man’s friends - fierce friendship? They literally took the roof off so that they could get him to Jesus. You can imagine Jesus sitting there, teaching, and then the dust starts to fall...
‘And I look out and I see paralysed men
and women, paralysed congregations,
paralysed ministries and I want to cry;
“Your sins are forgiven. Rise, take up
your bed and walk!” And I treasure
those moments of intrusion, when the
heavens are torn apart and the Spirit
descends and I rise from the water and
I know there is hope”.
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