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PARISH OF DOWNPATRICK
1st Sunday of Lent
Psalter Week 1, Year B,
Missal Pages 118 -121
Sunday 9th March 2003


COLLECTION WK:18 Offertory £2197, Loose Plate £470, Weekly Average of Standing Orders & Annual Payments £183, Total: £2850.

PRIEST ON DUTY:
Sun/Mon 9/10th March: Fr. J. McCallum Tel: 028 44613430
Tues/Sat 11/15th March: Fr. T. McDermott Tel: 028 44615206
Parish office open Mon - Fri 12 Noon - 1pm & 6.15 -7.15pm. Tel: 028 44612084

YOUR PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED FOR:
RECENTLY DECEASED: Mary Walsh (nee Gibney), John Connolly (Monaghan)
MONTH'S MIND: Colette McQuoid,
ANNIVERSARIES: V. Rev. Mgr. Denis Duignan, Sr. Mark F. Cosgrove, Sr. Mel Cosgrove, Peggy Cosgrove, Una Gibney, Kathleen Vint, Mary Ann McKenna, John (Jack) McKenna, Daniel McGreevy, Robert McVeigh, John & Teresa Smyth,, Patrick & Bridget Molloy, John & Mary Jamison, William & Bee Molloy, Jack Taylor, Nora Taylor, Mary McGreevy, Bernard Deeny, Daniel Milligan, James Galbraith, Conor J. Creaney, John Murray, Annie Murray, Raymond Breen, James Breen, Iain McKenzie, Patrick & Margaret Hanna, James Hampton, William & Molly McCarthy, Margaret Tweedie, Brigid Smyth, William Fay, Bill Fay, Brigid Maguir, Margaret Fitzpatrick, John Bohill, Gerard Burns, Jim Rea, Elizabeth & Gerard McComb,

BAPTISMS: Leo McGarry, Samantha Kendall, Shea Walsh, Matthew Hagan, Sinead Carlin,
PLEASE NOTE: 4 Weeks Notice Required for Baptisms.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY:
Sunday 16th March - Eve of St. Patrick's Day, Vigil Masses in St. Patrick's, St. Colmcille's and St. Brigid's. PLEASE NOTE: No 5pm Mass.


ST. JOSEPH'S YOUNG PRIESTS SOCIETY:
Feast of St. Joseph on 19th March.
There will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on Wednesday 19th March from 6.30pm - 7pm. A Novena to St. Joseph is printed on the back of this bulletin. The Novena starts on Tuesday 11th March, Parishioners are encouraged to do the Novena and also to visit the Church during Exposition to pray for an increase of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Usual monthly meeting in St. Michael's Parish Centre on Wednesday 19th March at 8pm. New Members always welcome.

DOWNPATRICK THIRD WORLD GROUP:
£6,500 was realised from the sale of St. Brigid's Crosses from Downpatrick and various other parishes. This has allowed the group to fund various projects including: Trocaire- Famine Relief - Ethiopia, Jubile Action - Classroom for street children in Kenya, Fr. Jim Lee - Poverty Relief in Liberia, Little Way Assoc.: Provision of food & medicine - Peru, Fr. K. Creagh - Hospice for Aids Victims- Pretoria.
We would like to express our sincere thanks for your very generous support. We sincerely thank the landowners who permitted access to the rushes and also the rush gatherers and makers.

DOWN ADVOCACY MOVEMENT:
Are running an Easter Scheme for disabled parents and their children from 22nd - 25th April. Places are limited, for more information contact DAM at 028 44616727.

DIOCESAN PILGRMAGE TO LOURDES:
The Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes takes place under the leadership of Bishop Patrick Walsh from July 11th - 16th. Fare, inclusive of all charges and including return flight from Belfast to Lourdes and full board in hotels in Lourdes is: 5 nights £360, 7 Nights (Hotel Jeanne D'Arc only) July 10th - 17th, £400. Coach for youth helpers, July 7th - 18th £285. For further details and booking forms contact Parish Office.

TAIZE TRIP FOR YOUNG ADULTS (Aged 17-30)
Fr. Tom McDermott is organising a trip to Taize, France from 13th - 22nd July. Cost £310 sterling. Price includes return flights from Dublin to Paris, B&B in Parish Hotel for two nights, guided tour of Paris and optional day trip to Disneyland Paris. Interested?? Contact frtommcdermott@hotmail.com or tel: 028 44615206

YOUTH MINISTRY CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME:
If you are interested in developing your skills in youth ministry, whether as youth worker, teacher, priest or chaplain, you are invited to participate in a youth ministry certificate programme being organised for those in youth ministry in the diocese. The next weekend will take place from 28th - 30th March 2003. For further information contact Brian McKee at 028 90232432 or email info@youthcom.org

"SEARCH":
Weekend for young adults aged 17 years and upwards: book now for March 28th - 30th at St. Clement's. Search is a community of young people, helping other young people to explore and experience their faith in new ways. Plenty of craic in the process! Contact St. Clement's at 90776500.

LENTEN TALKS:
At St. Clement's Retreat Centre over six Tuesdays of Lent. The first talk is by Anne Thurston "Journeying into the Wilderness" on Tuesday March 11th at 7.30pm. The series will deal with pain and faith in our personal journeys, in the brokenness of the Church, in broken relationships, in divided communities, in adult faith, in sufferings of our lives. For further details contact St. Clement's at 90 776500.


PATRICIAN YOUTH CENTRE:
ST. PATRICK'S FESTIVAL WEEKEND DISCO & PARTY: on Saturday 15th March, 8pm - 11pm. Starlight Roadshow and Resident DJ's . Admission £3.00, age 8 years upwards- Secondary School age only. Everyone Welcome.
YOUTH CENTRE PROGRAMME: Operational Monday - Saturday evenings 7pm - 10pm. Primary Provision Programme Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons, 3pm - 5pm. Full programme details available from the Youth Centre, Tel: 028 44615488
JUNIOR DISCO: On Saturday 22nd March, 7pm - 9pm. Age 8 - 11 years - Primary School only. Admission £2. Everyone Welcome.

RUSSELL GAELIC UNION:
Saturday 8th March: Night at the Races in clubhouse in aid of MS
Sunday 9th March: Clubhouse entertainment with Peter Steele
Saturday 22nd March: Adult Disco - Admission Free!
Juvenile Football: U8 Training every Saturday, 10.30am, U14 Training every Sunday at 12 Noon, Minor Training at De La Salle, Sunday 11.00am.
LOTTO: Winning Numbers - 12, 23, 25, 26. Jackpot not won. 3 match 3 winners share £100. This week's Jackpot £1600.

EVANGELISATION:
The word "evangelisation" is a word rooted in Sacred Scripture, rooted in the life of Christ, and in the life of the Church. To evangelise is to proclaim the Good News and Jesus Himself is the Good News. St. Mark begins the Gospel with the words " The Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God" (Mark 1,1). Christ said " I must proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom of God....... Because that is what I was sent to do" (Luke 4, 43). And then to his disciples he said: " As the Father sent me, so I am sending you". (John 20,21).
To evangelise is the calling of every follower of Jesus Christ, of you, of me, of every Christian: " Go out to the whole world, proclaim the good news to all creation". (Mark 16, 15). Go out to the real world as it is, in all its reality, in all its fragility. And for us the world in the first instance is the world in which we find ourselves in our own Diocese of Down & Connor, the world of Antrim and Down, city and town, the world of the Glens, the Mournes and the Ards, the world which we share with all our Christian sisters and brothers and those of other faiths or none.

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