The
Episcopal Ordination of Monsignor Liam McDaid as Bishop of Clogher took place on Sunday 25th July in St. Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan.
The
Parish of Magh Ene was represented by thirty relatives, friends and
neighbours who have been personally invited by Monsignor MacDaid and by
twenty other Parishioners from Bundoran and St. Joseph’s, the Rock We
wish Monsignor McDaid well, who is a native of Bundoran, and pray that God
may guide and pray for him as he prepares to lead us.
Parish Week of Prayer
Now that the Church
has been refurbished, the Rosary Chapel has been built and the carparks and
grounds in general have been completed, we turn our minds to the meaning of
what the Church and Parish really promotes. Our Church is firstly where the
Lord resides among His people. It is the place where people gather to
worship. It is the place where we bring the small and great aspects of our
lives to be blessed by the Lord.
In September (19th—25th) the Parish hopes to
host a week of prayer. Using both Churches, we ask our communities and
visitors to gather in prayer before the Lord. This first year is very
experimental, in that we will make the schedule as simple as possible and
then review it later in the year. During our week of prayer the Masses in
both Churches will be celebrated by visiting Priests who will direct their
prayer and preaching to matters dealing with the issues of today’s world. We
will ask our local communities to provide the personnel, music and prayers
necessary for these occasions. Pope Benedict has reminded us that
Eucharistic Devotion should be part of Parish life so we will arrange such
adoration for a period of time in both our Churches.
In the days approaching our week of prayer,
other ideas will suggest themselves to us and we will incorporate them into
our overall design but let us walk carefully this year so that in years to
come, our week of prayer will develop in a proper manner.
Summer Concerts in the Rosary Chapel Bundoran
The Priests and People of the Parish are very Proud
to present a number of Sacred and Classical Evenings in our New Rosary
Chapel at the Church Of Our Lady Star Of The Sea in Bundoran. The Chapel has
seating for approx 300 people and we hope that many will enjoy such musical
evenings and that the special surroundings of the Rosary Chapel will
contribute greatly to the special sound of such concerts.The
First of our Concerts takes place on the 29th July when the Three Irish
Tenors will perform for you at 8 pm.Our second Concert is on the
8th August with the 9 piece Chamber Philharmonia Cologne (Germany)
performing for you at 8 pm.
The Blessing of the new Rosary Chapel and Church Grounds in Bundoran
Bishop Joseph Duffy Officially Opened and
Blessed the New 300 seat Rosary Chapel Extension, New Cark Park and Newly
Refurbished Church in Bundoran on Sunday 16th August.
There was a very large attendance on the day
with locals and visitors from far and near and also over 30 Priests
from various Parishes in the Diocese and also neighbouring Parishes.
Changes in Parish Mass times
From January 1st 2009 the St Joseph’s Sunday
10.30am Mass will be permanently rescheduled for 10.00am. This will allow us
to maintain, for the foreseeable future, the traditional two masses on the
Rock and three in Bundoran. Whenever one of the Priests of the Parish is
unavailable for any reason (holiday or illness etc.) we can cancel the Rock
Vigil 8.00pm Mass and the Bundoran 8.30am Mass thereby asking the remaining
priest to celebrate three weekend Masses, one in the Rock and two in
Bundoran. Should one of the Priests be unavailable, the daily Parish Mass
will be celebrated in Bundoran due to visiting numbers who attend there.
We appreciate that such changes will ask parishioners to occasionally change
schedules but we feel that a permanent change would be a better decision
than constantly searching for clerical replacements and changing Mass times
with very little notice.
Mass
Intentions: Because of these changes it may be necessary to change the
intentions of Saturday Night
Masses
to Sunday Morning. It may also be necessary to combine a number of
intentions in the same mass.
Whenever
this occurs, the priest who says the mass can only keep the stipend
(donation) for one of the masses, the stipends for the other masses will be
donated to the Clogher Diocese Sick Priests’ Fund. In all
cases
the family who books the first intention will be informed.
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