Parish News for Sunday 20th Jan 2008

Second Sunday In Ordinary Time

PRIESTS OF THE PARISH
Very Rev Michael Canny Adm
Rev David O'Kane CC
Rev Gary Wade CC

Vol. 35 No. 3

VISIT OF HIS EMINENCE SEÀN CARDINAL BRADY

His Eminence Seàn Cardinal Brady will be making his first official visit to the Derry Diocese on Wednesday and Thursday, 23rd and 24th January. He will be Principal Concelebrant at Mass here in St Eugene’s Cathedral on Thursday morning at 10.00 am to which all are welcome. Cardinal Brady will be available after the Mass to meet and greet those who come along.

Cardinal Brady was born in August 1939 at Drumcalpin, near Laragh in County Cavan, and after an early education in the local school he went to St Patrick’s College, Cavan. He then attended St Patrick’s College, Maynooth and the Irish College in Rome.

He was ordained in February 1964 and after post-graduate studies in canon law in Rome he returned to teach at St Patrick’s, Cavan, in 1967.

In 1980, he was appointed Vice-Rector of the Irish College in Rome and became Rector in 1987. He remained there until 1993 when he was appointed Parish Priest of Castletara, Ballyhaise, County Cavan.

In February 1995 he was ordained Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh and a year and a half later he became Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland October 1996. Pope Benedict XVI elevated him to the College of Cardinals during a ceremony in Rome on 24th November 2007.

CARDINAL BRADY’S COAT OF ARMS

The armorial bearings show the arms of the Archdiocese of Armagh on one half of the shield and the personal arms of the Cardinal on the other.

The Archdiocese of Armagh is represented by the pallium, which is the scapular made of lamb’s wool given by the Pope to symbolise the authority of an archbishop. It will be recalled that it was on a journey to Rome to obtain the pallium that St Malachy died in Clairvaux in 1148.

The other half of the shield, Cardinal Brady’s personal armorial bearings, is an adaptation of the ancient shield of arms associated with Mac Brádaigh of Cúl Bhríde, which comprises the district around Stradone in County Cavan. The symbol of the sun, a notable feature of the family arms, has been replaced by a representation of the head of the Cross of Saint Muireadhach, the celebrated scriptural Cross at Monasterboice, which lies within the Archdiocese of Armagh. The shield therefore directs our attention to the Cross - the abiding symbol of our salvation.

The motto is JESUM CHRISTUM COGNOSCERE, (To know Jesus Christ).

Please note - no 9.00 am Mass on Thursday

ITINERARY OF CARDINAL BRADY’S VISIT

Wednesday, 23rd January

7.30 pm Presentation of John Paul II awards in the Millennium Forum

Thursday, 24th January

8.45 am Visit to Foyle Hospice

10.00 am - Concelebrated Mass at St. Eugene’s Cathedral
Meeting of people after Mass

12 noon Courtesy call to Guildhall.

12.30 pm Visit to St Columb’s Cathedral and City Walls.

Sympathy
We offer our sympathy to the family and friends of:
Brendan Kelly, 108 Northland Road. May he rest in peace.

Readers on duty next Weekend
06.15 Rita McCauley
07.30 Charlie McDermott
09.30 St Eugene’s P.S.
11.00 Terry Willman-Gallagher
12.30 Carita Kerr

Weekdays
10.00 Eugene McClintock
07.30 Charlie McDermott

St Joseph’s Young Priests Society will meet in the Choir Room of St Eugene’s Cathedral on Thursday at 8.00 pm.

St Vincent de Paul acknowledge with thanks donations of £20 and £5.

Could You Be Called To Serve God and His People as a Priest in the Diocese of Derry? Vocations Information Day - a Day of reflection on the theme of Vocation on Saturday, 9th February from 11.00 am - 4.00 pm in Thornhill Retreat Centre, Derry.

For further information contact any of your local priests/RE Teachers or Fr Paul Farren at 71264087, Email: ddcc@derrydiocese.org or Fr Colm O’Doherty at 81661475, Email: collydoc2000@hotmail.com.

Monthly Mass in Polish for the Polish Community here in St Eugene’s Cathedral on Friday at 9.00 pm.

Fr Canny acknowledges with thanks donations for:
Cathedral Funds: £100. Trócaire: £50. Bangladeshi Floods: £20. Darfur: £20, £10. Niger: £20. Ethiopia: £20.
Fr Canny will forward donations totalling £30 to LASCO.

Last Week’s Collection amounted to £3,449.
Next Week’s Collection is the Stipend Collection.

Friends of St Eugene’s Cathedral - Private Members’ Draw
Voluntary subscription of £100 or 10 monthly payments of £10.
Draw will take place on 21st November 2008. Total prize fund £60,000.

If you wish to be a Promoter and have 5 members or more please
collect a promoter’s pack from the Sacristy after Masses or from the Parochial House, Monday to Friday during office hours.

St Eugene’s Parish Hall:
Sunday: Long Tower Bingo 8.30 pm.
Tuesday: Long Tower Bingo 9.00 pm.

Found: Earring in Cathedral on Thursday, 17/1/08. Contact Parochial House.