17th Sunday
in Ordinary Time –
Sunday, 25th July 2010
...Fr. Johnny Doherty, C.Ss.R.
“So
I (Jesus) say to you: ask and it will
be given to you; search and you will
find; knock and the door will be opened
to you.” The greatest
power that we have is undoubtedly
the power of prayer. And unfortunately
it’s a power that we don’t
use often enough. The three words
that Jesus uses here are dynamic words
that have to involve us at a personal
level. Ask: to do this we have to
decide what we are really looking
for in marriage and family life as
well as in our parish and then we
have to be willing to invest ourselves
in it. Search: if what we are looking
for is important to us we will be
willing to change to find it and to
change even more having found it.
So many people want everything but
without any cost and this is not the
way of the Lord. Knock: God wants
us to come to him with confidence
but then to abandon ourselves into
his hands, knowing that we will be
well looked after.
Ordination
Day for our new bishop: This
Sunday Msgr Liam MacDaid will be
ordained to serve as Bishop of Clogher.
Parishioners are earnestly asked
to offer him the support of their
prayers at this time and into the
future. The Ordination Liturgy in
the Cathedral at 3pm will be available
to follow live as a webcast on www.clogherdiocese.ie
Monaghan Citizens’
Information:
... July 2010.
Have you recently
become unemployed?
There are payments and State supports available. Contact
us at 23 North Rd, Monaghan Tel 047 82622, email: monaghan@citinfo.ie
or Carrickmacross Tel 042 9663454, email workhousereception@hotmail.com
PARISH OF TULLYCORBET (BALLYBAY) : St.
Patrick’s, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan.
Tel/Fax 042-9741032
