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• Recent Baptisms
  We welcome into the Christian Family the following:
  

• Recent deaths:
  

• Music Classes
  Traditional music classes in the Loftus resume on Wed Sept 9 at 5.30pm.
  Contact 086 6036243

• Pioneer Meeting
  This Sunday 6th Sept after 11.30 Mass. All existing and new members welcome.

• Active Retirement Association
  Meeting on Friday next 11th Sept at 11am in the Pastoral Centre.

• Irish Farmers Assoc
  IFA Public Livestock Meeting on Monday 7th Sept at 8.30pm in the Bush Hotel Carrick on Shannon.

• Art Classes for Adults
  Beginners and Advanced in Ballymote Family Resource Centre, starting Thursday Sept 24th for 10 weeks. 8 – 10 pm. Phone Clare at 086 3661307

• Vintage Fun Day on Sat 12 Sept in Ballymote Town Park, Admission Free. Starting at 12 noon. All proceeds in aid of the North West Hospice. Lots of fun to be enjoyed by all the family with Horse Drawn Carriage rides, Gigs and Traps, Gypsy Caravans, Cinderella and wedding carriages, Vintage Cars and tractors, bouncy castles and much much more……..All welcome.

• A cluster of 5 Catholic parishes in this area will come together for a series of 5 weekly Inter-Parish Meetings starting on Tues Sept 23rd 2003 and ending on Tues 28th Oct.2003. The parishes are Ballymote, Keash, Bunninaden, Gurteen and Ballaghadereen. The general theme is "Our parish - Preparing for the Future" ( see Reflection page).It is important that we have a good representation of parishioners and a good cross-section of age groups present at these meetings. You are invited then to come and express what you feel are the needs or your parish community - now and into the future.

• The Second Meeting of the Five Parish Cluster took place on Tuesday last and once again it drew a very large attendance. The focus was on Christ's vision of church and community as outlined in the Gospels. Then we asked how this vision may inspire us once again in our search to respond to the needs of people in today's world.
  The next meeting will look at "Parish" and examine how Parish life at various levels may be fostered and strengthened. You are very welcome to join us for this coming Meeting in the Coach House Hotel on Tuesday Oct. 7 from 8 pm - 10 pm. Hopefully you will find some new food ffor thought, reflection and action at every meeting you are able to attend.

• Our third Meeting again drew a large attendance. It focused on Parish - parish as we have known it and as it is likely to develop into the future. Our next meeting will reflect on our Baptismal calling - what it means for us as individuals and as members of the Christian community. We look forward to your insights once again.

• Getting Married in Rome? Log on to www.irishcollege.orgThe website of the Irish College in Rome. Wedding dates for 2002 & 2003 are available here. You will find information on both civil and church requirements as well as information on videos, photographs, Papal blessings and audience and lots more.

• Mart:

• GAA:

• Ladies GAA:

• Golf:

• Handball:

• Ballymote Celtic:

• Ballymote Boxing Club:

• Corran Athletics Club:

• Ballymote Snooker Club:

• Mrs Olive Braiden, formerly Olive Egan, O'Connell Street, Ballymote, has recently retired after a highly successful ten-year stint as Director of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. Olive was educated in the Convent of Mercy N.S. Ballymote, St. Mary's Secondary School, Ballymote and U.C.D.

• You are asked to observe silence and reverence in church at all times and to show respect for the house of God. Keep your conversations until you leave the church.

• Ballymote Station
  Ring freephone: 1800 638 638 for train times if ticket office is closed.

• A Website has been set up by Fr. Aquinas Duffy, Dublin, for missing persons. The address is: www.missing.ws
  Posters for display may be downloaded.

• Are you an unattached Catholic seeking new friends or perhaps looking for someone special? Why not join the Catholic Unattached Directory? It is run by Practising Catholics for Practising Catholics. For a free information pack ring Dublin: 01-283 7888 or write to : The Catholic Unattached Directory, 10 Lower Abbey Street, (Freepost (F2046), Dublin 1. Or visit the web pages at: www.cathud.com
  The object of the Directory is to help unattached practising Catholics to find and meet one another and to foster friendships and marriages between them. There are now 1,600 members and over 80 marriages already and many more in the pipeline.

• Support Group, WEAVE, is a confidence building group for women who have left abusive relationships. WEAVE is a free 20 week course, one evening per week. Help with childcare costs available. Commencement is Oct 18th. Supported by NWHB. If interested contact Gill Brehony, Perry's or Bridie Colleran for application form. Women's aid Freephone: 1800-341-900.

• Counselling Services.
  Counselling helps people resolve difficulties in relationships. People come to counselling for a variety of reasons: they may be experiencing problems in relating in the family, in their marriage or in the workplace' they may be coping with bereavement,loss, illness or they may be physically or sexually abused. Some people come because they want to improve the quality of their relationships.
  Counselling for individuals, couples and families is available at the Family Institute, at its new location in Pound Street, Ballaghaderreen ( beside the Cathedral Car Park).
  Mondays to Fridays, 9.30 - 5.30 pm. For appointments contact: Ethna O'Grady, Tel: 097-61000

  Counselling for individuals, couples and families is also available in the Presbytery, Ballaghaderreen and in the old Parochial House, Tubbercurry: Thursdays and Fridays 9.30 - 5.30 pm. For appointments contact: Phyllis Kilcoyne, 0907-61250.

• Ballymote Web Page.
  If you would like to send a short message to your friends( who are not on the internet), or seek your relatives past and present; send your greetings through the e-mail address: jhiggins@eircom.net

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'Father, may you support us all day long, till the shadows lengthen and evening falls, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done: then in your mercy grant us a safe lodging, a holy rest, and peace at last. We ask this through Christ our Lord.'

Some Catholic Web sites.

www.irishcollege.org

www.catholiccommunications.ie

www.veritas.ie

www.ferns.it

http://achonrydiocese.org/ballymote.htm

www.stnathys.com/

www.knock-shrine.ie

Carraroe Church, Sligo

Castlebar Parish

Parish of Riverstown,Gleann, & Sooey, Co. Sligo

Episcopal Commission for Irish Emigrants

Archdiocese of Tuam

The Columban website

http://ic.net/~erasmus

www.jesuit.ie/prayer

www.catholic.net/

www.theology.ie

Andrew Greeley

Rathcormac Parish, Cloyne

St Mark's Springfield

The Jesuit sponsored: www.sacredspace.ie is a site for words of comfort and compassion. For those looking for a few moments reflection as they sit before the computer I can heartily recommend Sacred Space. For others who wish to access a thought of meditation based on the Sunday readings:www.staudeons.dublindiocese.ie

If you want to access Church documents, even before they are published, try: www.vatican.va This is a window on the Vatican and includes recent documents and the text of Papal audiences. For those who are looking for accurate information on the teaching of the Church try: www.catholic-pages.com

www.cwn.com a comprehensice Catholic news service by subscription.

Of interest may be:www.catholic-ministries.com/retreats - news of retreats throughout the country. www.jubileeireland.com is celebrating the 2000 anniversary of the birth of Christ. A good site for those wanting to know more about scripture comes from Fr. Tom Lane at: www.frtommylane.ie

The Dublin Diocese web site also has good links that are a help to searching: www.dublindiocese.ie

A new Irish site on the web helps couples prepare for a Catholic wedding.
www.gettingmarried.ie gives a guide to the ceremony and special tips for choosing reading, prayers and music. The website also has stories and experiences of couples, an online bookshop and lots more.

LINKS:
Community Games Sligo: www.communitygames.ie
Ballymote Golf Club: www.ballymotegolfclub.com

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