Requiescat In Pace

Lately Deceased: Manuel Da Silva, Nora O’Neill, Yulia Pinto Bessa, Declan Maguire, Jim McCann, Paddy McShane, Alizira da Costa Guterres
At This Time:  Elizabeth McAtamney, Mary Jane O’Reilly, Laurence McKenna, Margaret Murphy, Joaquim Da Costa, Antonio Polidoro, Kate & James McConville   
Sunday 22nd:  Edward Gribbon, Noreen Doherty, Dermot Foy, Tommy McDonnell, Patrick Foy, Patrick Fox, Margaret Thomas, Jeanette Davis   
Monday 23rd: Teresa Leonard(1st Anniversary), Jim Monaghan  
Tuesday 24th: Ann McCormick, Bridget Boyle, Sarah Heyburn, Mary McCann, Bernadette McEvoy, Bernard McNally    Wednesday 25th: Brigid O’Connor(1st Anniversary), Mona McKeown, Gerald McIlkenny, James McCann, Margaret Litter, Edith Woolsey, Desmond Caldwell, Theresa McKeown, Margaret McGrane, John Connolly  
Thursday 26th: Edward Campbell, Mary Molloy        
Friday 27th: Pat McVeigh, Patrick Garvey    
Saturday 28th: Dan Murphy, Imelda Millsopp
 

Anniversaries late for Bulletin should be left in the Sacristy on proper day

When submitting notices for bulletin please include name and phone number. Notices and anniversaries should be left in by the Wednesday prior to publication.
 

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St. Vincent De Paul Society
URGENTLY REQUIRED!! Ladies, Men’s and Children’s Clothing. Furniture also needed - collection available.  Clothes shop phone
38393898. Furniture shop phone 38394219, Mayfair Business Centre, Garvaghy Road.  Open Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.  Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. PRAMS, COTS, BUGGIES REQUIRED.
SELF HELP LINE - 38339639 - Response within 48 hours.

SPRED (Learning Disability):  The group will recommence on Wednesday 25th September at 7.30 p.m. in Drumcree Community Centre.  New members welcome.  Any enquiries phone Francie on 38392568.

Christian Meditation:  The Meditation Group will meet on Monday at 8 p.m. in the Pastoral Centre.  All welcome.

CUMANN SEANCHAIS ARD MHACHA The next lecture in the 2013 programme, ‘The poets of South Ulster: a reapprasial’, will be given by Dr Charlie Dillon of Queen’s University Belfast on Wednesday 2 October 2013 at 8:00pm in the Cardinal Ó Fiaich Library and Archive. All are welcome for the lecture.

WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE a 3 day public exhibition entitled:

"THE ART AND PRACTICE OF DAILY PRAYER"  at the Synod Hall, St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh TUESDAY OCTOBER 1st - THURSDAY OCTOBER 3rd.10 00 AM - 9.00 PM. Admission is free. This will include a display of Icons by the Irish Iconographers Group and the story of prayer in Irish families over the years using beads and images. At various times there will be teachings and prayer to experience. Do try to come and experience it. Suitable for school groups as well.
See poster and timetable on Parish website

ILF - Integrating Life and Faith - Archdiocese of Armagh in conjunction with Craighead Institute. We are only too familiar with the cry that there is a split between our faith and the realities of modern life.  Like to know more? Venue-Dromantine Dates: 18th-20th Oct 2013- Module 1; 22nd-24th Nov 2013-Module 2; 31stJan- 2nd Feb 2014- Module 3; 4th-9th April 2014-Module 4. Cost is £200. Contact: Caoimhe: 07598421265 or Kevin:07515910957

St. Malachy’s Hurling Club:  Bingo in Drumcree Pastoral Centre every Friday night 8.15 p.m. sharp.  All support welcome.

Tir Na nOg GFC - Bingo as usual Tuesday night.  The bigger the crowd the bigger the prizes.

Bannside Development Centre:  Homework Club resumes     Monday 16th Sept. 3 - 4.30 p.m.  £1 per day.  Arts & Crafts and other activities Tuesday & Wednesday evenings 6.30 p.m. - 8 p.m.  For further information contact Ann on 38339916.

St. Malachy’s Indoor Bowling Club - Indoor bowls every Tuesday 7.30 - 9 p.m. in Ashgrove Centre.  All welcome.

INVITATION:  Ann and Liz invite you to their McMillan Coffee   Morning in Ashgrove Community Centre Friday 27th September 9.30 a.m. - 12 noon            

Monastic Experience Weekend at St. Mary's Abbey, Glencairn from 25 to 27 October, 2013. The event is open to women who are discerning God's call in their lives and who would like to discover more about monastic life.Cistercian nuns seek God and follow Christ in a monastic life of prayer and work, silence and simplicity and community life. We are a vibrant, growing community of 34   sisters.  Currently, there are 2500 Cistercian monks and 1800     Cistercian nuns worldwide. Visit our website  www.glencairnabbey.org  which we regularly update to provide news, information and insights about our Cistercian way of life.

Attention all Year 11 & 12 students! Do you live in Portadown? Do you attend Church regularly? Are you interested in spending 4weeks in the USA (Hutchinson and McPherson, Kansas) next July with the Ulster Project? YES? Ulster Project Information Evening in St John the Baptist PS on Monday 23rd September at 7.30pm. Young people & parents welcome  

Ashgrove Playgroup:  Playgroup Assistant required.   For further details contact Portadown Job Market.  Closing date Friday 27th September.

Offertory Collection
Sunday 15th - £2676-00
Thanks to all who contributed
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Pastoral Centre: Cafe Bethany open after
10 a.m. Mass on Mondays

 
Reflection

To what do we entrust our lives?

In each man and woman
is the need and desire for security.
As infants we look to parents totally for security
and as life moves on,
we may look to family, peers, friends and
children
for our security,
like rocks on which we feel we will be safe.

And we can entrust ourselves to God,
knowing that words for God
like Rock, Fountain of Living Water, Eternal Life,
are foundations of our security.

Or we may place our trust in
money or financial security,
or prestige and honour from a job,
or entrust our feeling of security to an over-care of the body,
and the question from the gospel of
Jesus is:
to what do you entrust yourself?

We cannot place full trust at the same time
in God and wealth,
not in love and possessions,
not in a long life and trust in God.

God intends that we use created gifts
like wealth, honour and appearance,
friendship, love and prayer,
to bring us to him;
but if we are entrusted to them,
they may draw us away from him.
 

May we know the happiness of
entrusting ourselves to God and to love,
and wanting to use all else in his service.
 

The JOY rule
Think of Jesus
Think of Others
Think of You