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Cappagh
Parish News
(Vol.33 No 03) - 18th January 2009
The
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Answering
God’s Call
The disciples asked
Jesus 'where do you live?' He replied
'come and see'. One of the most beautiful
truths of our faith is found in the
promise that Jesus made to us "where
two or three are gathered in my name
I am there with them." It is
an answer for us to the question that
the disciples asked. Jesus lives in
our community with one another because
of our baptism. He lives in every
married couple because of the sacrament
they share. He lives in every home
because of the love that bonds us
to one another as parents with children,
as sisters and brothers. The significance
of our parish is that it is not merely
a place where we worship but is a
real presence of Christ in our world.
We will only see him in all these
special places in so far as we answer
his call to love God with our whole
heart and to love one another as he
loves us.
Fr. Johnny Doherty, C.Ss.R.
Why
God allows pain and suffering
A man went to a barbershop
to have his hair cut and his beard
trimmed. As the barber began to work,
they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and
various subjects. When they eventually
touched on the subject of God, the
barber said: "I don't believe
that God exists."
"Why do you
say that?" asked the customer.
"Well, you just have to go out
in the street to realize that God
doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists,
would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?
If God existed, there would be neither
suffering nor pain. I can't imagine
a loving God who would allow all of
these things." The customer thought
for a moment, but didn't respond because
he didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the
customer left the shop.
Just after he left
the barbershop, he saw a man in the
street with long, stringy, dirty hair
and an untrimmed beard. He looked
dirty and unkempt. The customer turned
back and entered the barber shop again
and he said to the barber:" You
know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?"
asked the surprised barber. "I
am here, and I am a barber. And I
just worked on you!" "No!"
the customer exclaimed. "Barbers
don't exist because if they did, there
would be no people with dirty long
hair and untrimmed beards, like that
man outside."
"Ah, but barbers
DO exist! That's what happens when
people do not come to me." "Exactly!"
affirmed the customer. "That's
the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's
what happens when people do not go
to Him and don't look to Him for help.
That's why there's so much pain and
suffering in the world."
Baptism
We welcome into the Parish Community
through the Sacrament of Baptism
Megan Teresa
Harris, 17, Spring Road,
Fecarry.
Requiescat In Pace:
We extend our
sympathy to the family and relatives
of
Ronnie McConnell,
Slieve-Na-Mon Nursing Home,
Eugene Taggart
27, Mullaghmore Drive
James Mitchell
20, Strathroy Park
Anniversary
Masses for the week
Monday 19th Hannah
Patton
Strathroy Road (CTK 07.30 pm)
Saturday 24th Michael
& Gertrude McLaughlin
Richmond Park (CPC 10.00 am)
Saturday 24th Michael
O’Kane
Donaghanie Road (CTK 06.30 pm)
Saturday 24th Mary
Gaine
St. Mary’s Road. (CPC 08.30
pm)
Sunday 25th Marietta
Meenan
Spring Road (MF 10.00 am)
Sunday 25th Sarah
Toal (MM)
Killyclogher Road (CPC 12 noon)
Sunday 25th Patricia
Waldron
St. Julian’s Court (CTK 12 noon)
Additional
Anniversaries
Evelyn Mitchell, Glenhordial
Road
Shay Hutchinson, Knocknamoe Bungalows
Frank McGaughey, Hawthorn Road
William McVeigh, Lisbuoy Road
Packie McGrath, Gardenville Avenue
Mary Murphy, Buchanan Villas
Willie Coyle, Reaghan
Hannah Patton, Strathroy Road
Frances McDermott, Sunningdale
CAPPAGH
PARISH DRAW RESULTS FOR January
1st Prize
£2,000. Joan Cunningham Hawthorn
(Promoter (Cecelia O’Hale)
2nd Prize
£1,000 Ciara Horisk Oakland
Avenue
(Promoter (Noel Mayse)
3rd Prize
£500 Carolina Passi Pinefield
Brae
(Promoter (Sean Deehan)
4th Prize
£250 Siobhan Donaghy Mullan
Park MF
(Promoter (Brian McCaffrey)
5th Prize
£100 Kathleen Brown Killybrack
Mews (Promoter (Stephen Dillon)
Promoter’s Prize
£100 Roddy Tierney.
Cappagh Parish
Draw: A meeting of the aforementioned
committee will take place in the Cappagh
Parish Centre on Tuesday 27th January
at 8.00 pm. New members would be very
welcome.
Old Tyme Dancing Class
will commence in the Cappagh Parish
Centre Killyclogher on Wednesday 28th
January and each consecutive Wednesday
from 8 - 11 pm. Everyone welcome.
Knockmoyle
old tyme dancers are having
a Burns night with a Scottish theme
next Tuesday night 20th January. Everyone
welcome to come along and wear their
tartans or kilts or just come along
and enjoy the fun.
Omagh Floral Art Society,
demonstration, Surprise, Surprise,
Surprise by Ann, Christine and Gorreti
in Trinity Hall, John Street on Tuesday
January 20th.
Guide Leaders (17+ yrs.) are
urgently required for St. Josephs
Guides in Omagh. Come along to our
meeting on Thursdays in the Station
Centre 4.30 - 6.30 pm. Our unit cannot
continue without more help, so please
consider giving up your time. It will
be worth it,
Wider Horizons Programme 2009.
Are you 18 – 28? Unemployed?
Would you like to travel / work overseas?
Tyrone Donegal Partnership is currently
accepting applications for our 2009
Wider Horizons Programme. If you are
interested or would like more information
please contact Diane on 028 8225 0962
or
e-mail d.wilson@tyronedonegalpartnership.org
To mark the start of Church
Unity Week, an Interdenominational
Service will be held in the Sacred
Heart Church on today Sunday 18th
January 2009 at 6.00 pm. Everyone
is very welcome.
The Omagh Famine Group
would like to extend thanks to all
who participated in their Christmas
fund raising which realised £6803.61
and €200.10 on behalf of the
Third World. All proceeds have been
shared amongst Concern, Trócaire,
Oxfam and Save the Children. If you
have any queries, please contact me
at 82245025/07799061516.
Cappagh Parish
Centre
Weekly Bingo:
Each Monday evening in Cappagh
Parish Hall at 9 pm.
GAA - Weekly
Lotto Numbers 3, 8, 9, 17
& 21. One lucky winner,
Vincent O’Reilly, Richmond Park
received £100. The jackpot has
been capped at £5,000. New jackpot
now stands at £4,525.
£5,000 and the new jackpot now
stands at £4,500.
Killyclogher
Readers for January:
Vigil Mass - Leanne
Daly;
10.30 pm - Colette McAleer and 12
noon Seamus Devlin.
Killyclogher Collectors -
January: Vigil Mass: (1)Matt
Swift (2) Eamon O’ Neill (3)
Sean Deehan (4) Danny McCusker (5)
Brian McGlone (6) Pat Livingstone
10.30am: (1) Artie Treanor (2) Ennis
Dobbin (3) James McGirr (4) Eamon
McGrath (5) Tony Lyttle (6) Sean Quinn
12 Noon: (1) Thomas Blee (2) Tony
McKenna (3) Anthony Quinn (4) Basil
Neville (5) Martin McGrath (6) John
Wallace.
Killyclogher Counters
- January: Gerry & Maura McCaughey,
Peter O’Kane and Laurence Kelly.
Others welcome.
Knockmoyle Collectors
– January: Olly McGirr, Eunan
Kerlin, Declan McGrath and John O’Donnell
Mountfield - Collectors
– January: James Meenagh and
Tony McDonald.
Killyclogher Readers for
January:Vigil Mass - Leanne Daly;
10.30 pm - Colette McAleer and 12
noon Seamus Devlin.
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