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The  twenty eight Sunday in ordinary time  

                                 Sunday 13^th October 2013      

The Deep End – The Other Nine

Some of us will be familiar with the prayer to St. Joseph of Cupertino for success in examinations. Many of us regularly turn to St. Anthony for help in finding a lost item, while others enlist the help of St. Jude for particularly ‘hopeless cases’, or Padre Pio when a loved one is sick or in hospital. We are very good at prayer when we need something, and have no problem turning to God in times of strife. But what about after the storm has passed?

The leper in today’s Gospel offers us a lesson in gratitude and faith. It is easy to ask for help, to call out ‘Jesus! Master! Take pity on us!’ It is not so easy to appreciate the implications of what God is doing in our lives.

Of course we would all like to think that we would be the one leper who came back to give thanks to Jesus when he saw he was healed. But in reality, are we more like the nine who forgot to give thanks? What Jesus wants to know is, ‘The other nine, where are they?’ I’d imagine they were so overjoyed to be healed, they simply got on with their lives! Perhaps over time the memory of this great thing God had done for them simply faded.

Jesus told the leper who returned that his faith had saved him. All ten were healed, yet this man had a fuller experience of the healing hand of Jesus. And his life was surely changed because of it.                   Triona Doherty

Calendar: Mass Times and Intentions 

Mon. 14^th October:  28^th Week in Ordinary Time:.St. Callistus I, after a life of slavery and imprisonment for criminal

offences, was freed and became a deacon in charge of catacombs that bear his name. He became Pope in 217, opposed by

Hippolytus, Died at the hands of a mob in 222.

                     Bantry:                    10am             Brigid Hurley – Market Street

                    

Tues. 15^th October: 28^th Week in Ordinary Time: St. Teresa of Avila, 1515-82, established Carmelite convents under a

reformed rule, and wrote much on prayer and the spiritual life. Patron of lace-makers and headache sufferers.

                     Bantry:                    10.00am        Nealie Lynch – Gorteen – 1^st Anniversary

                                                    

Wed. 16^th October: 28^th  Week in Ordinary Time: St. Gall was a monk of Bangor and set out with Columbanus for the Continent. When Columbanus was exiled from France, Gall accompanied hi to Bregenz on Lake Constance. When Columbanus crossed into Italy, Gall remained in Switzerland. He lived in a hermitage which later became the monastery of St. Gallen. He died around 630.

Bantry                     10.00am        Cornelius O’Brien     

Hospital                   5.30pm         Hannie O’Sullivan - Slip

Thurs 17^th October: 28^th  Week in Ordinary Time:. St. Ignatius bishop of Antioch, died a martyr at Rome c.107. He rged

Christians to unify in and through the Eucharist and around their local Bishop.

Bantry:                    10.00am        Vera O’Shea - Droumaloughlin

                    

Friday 18^th October: St. Luke, Evangelist. A physician from a gentile Christian milieu. He was with St. Paul on his 2^nd

missionary journey and during his imprisonment in Rome. After Paul’s death he is reputed to have worked in Greece.

Patron of butchers, book-binders, doctors and surgeons, artists and glassworkers

                     Bantry:                    10am             Paddy Cronin – Georges Row

                     Kealkil:                    7.30pm         John, Ted, and Julia O’Leary – Maughnaclea, Kealkil

Sat. 19^th October: 28^th Week in Ordinary Time:

                     Hospital                   10am             Special Intention

                     Bantry:                    6.15pm         James & Ellen Hegarty - Letterlickey

Sun. 20^th October: Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

                     Bantry:                         9am           Gary O’Donovan - Caher

                     Coomhola:                   10am         Thomas & Bridie Triggs - Borlin

                     Kealkil:                        11am         Sean O’Shea and his wife Kathleen – Ahil, Kealkil

                     Bantry:                        12noon     People of the Parish          

Bantry Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes 

Seminar for the Year of Faith

Saturday 19^th October  (1.30-5.30pm)

Rochestown Park Hotel. Cost-€20/person

Speaker: Fr. Conall O’ Cuinn SJ.

Topic: “Keeping alive the Flame of Faith

in the parish.”

To Book contact the Parish Office on 56398.

Child Safeguarding Training
Training for Church leaders who, work with children under 18 years of age or vulnerable adults, will take place on 16th October in the Parish Room over St. Finbarr's Church, Bantry at 7.30pm. It is recommended that all group leaders, such as Choir, Altar server, Children’s faith group etc…… Sacristans, Representatives from the Parish Pastoral Assembly should attend.

Died Recently

We extend our prayers & sympathy to the families, relatives & friends of

Mary O’Driscoll (O’Donoghue) (nee Dennis) (Gilhooley Terrace, Bantry), 

Sheila Desmond

(Coomhola)

May they rest in peace

What does it mean to learn from Jesus how to pray?

Learning from Jesus how to pray means entering into his boundless trust, joining in his prayer, and being led by him, step by step, to the Father.

The disciples, who lived in community with Jesus, learned to pray by listening to and imitating Jesus, whose whole life was prayer. Like him, they had to be watchful and strive for purity of heart, to give up everything for the coming of God's kingdom, to forgive their enemies, to trust boldly in God, and to love him above all things. By this example of devotion, Jesus invited his disciples to say to God Almighty, "Abba, dear Father". If we pray in the Spirit of Jesus, especially the Lord's Prayer, we walk in Jesus' shoes and can be sure that we will arrive unfailingly in the heart of the Father.

                     Recent Parish Baptisms

Suzanna Mae Kingston Fitzgerald

(Pairc na Carraige, Newtown, Bantry)

We welcome her into

our Christian Community

"The Bantry Bay Lions will be having their annual bucket collection in the town on Friday October 18. Proceeds will support local charities. Please give what you can."

Cappabue N.S. will be commencing a Parent and Toddler Group on Tuesday October 8th. The group is affiliated to the 'Early Childhood Ireland' organisation, and will run from 10am until 12 noon at the school every Tuesday. All parents and their pre-school children would be most welcome to attend. Further details may be obtained by contacting the school on (027) 66256.

Lovers of good food should make a note in their diaries of Monday 16th December.  On that night Mealagh Valley Community Centre are presenting 'Seasons Eatings', a celebration of Christmas Day cooking with Author, Broadcaster and Chef Instructor Frank Moynihan at the Community Centre at 8pm.  Tickets are only €10 and will be on sale early November.  So, write
that date in today.  Proceeds go to Mealagh Valley Community Centre & Dromclough National School.

A SPECIAL ENRICHING WEEKEND 

Celebrate your years of Marriage in the Lake Hotel, Killarney, Co. Kerry on the 15th - 17th November, 2013 ....a weekend of discovery.......a lifetime of love......real quality time ….fulfilment…..joy….For booking or more information: Ring 064 6644319/087 6670418, or visit www.marriageencounter.ie

Autumn Stations

Sat. 19^th October @ 11am – Jerry O’Shea – Coomleigh, Ardra, Gortnacowley

Sat. 26^th October @ 11am – The Thornton Family – Derrinkealig, Drombroe, Cahernacrin

We ask those parishioners who are thinking of hosting the Autumn Stations this year to please contact the parish office (56398) 

Offertory Collection: 

Bantry Church weekend of 5^th/6^th October: €2785

Special Collection for Mission Sunday takes place on October 19^th/20^th next.

Church Renovation Fund collection will take place on October 26^th/27^th. Thank you for your generous support.

Parish Assembly Meeting this Monday night, 14^th October, 7.30pm, at the Accord meeting room.

Gratitude: 

It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to make music to your name, O Most High,

To proclaim your love each morning, and your help throughout the day.