Mass Times .

There will be Mass in Drumsna on Friday evening Jan ., 28^th at 7pm followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Holy Hour Duty . Chris Murray; Seamus Murray. Mass on Sunday at 930am. Reader Rebecca Duignan, Minister Barry Guckian.

There will be a second collection after Communion at all Masses in the Parish on Sat/Sun in aid of St Mel’s Cathedral Lonford

Parish Council Meeting.

There will be a Parish Pastoral Council meeting in St Mary’s Church Annaduff on next Thursday night February 3rd at 8pm.

Bingo.

Bingo continues in the Community Centre Drumsna on Thursday night at 8.30pm. Winners last week included Clodagh Boland , Jack Colum, Teresa Moran , Martina Mc Garry, Geraldine Bohan. Winners of the free books Lauren Fitzgibbon and Adam O Hagan.Thanks is extended to all of our loyal supporters.

Golden Age News.

There will be a Golden Age meeting in the Community Centre Drumsna on Tuesday next Feb 1^st., at 11 am. This is our first meeting of the New year and we will be setting out our agenda for Spring and the Bealtaine Festival . we will also be able to view our show ‘’The Inheritance ‘’ from the Christmas Party .

St Brigid.

Next Tuesday is the first day of February and is the Feast of St Brigid who is also known as the Mary of the Gaels. St Brigid was born approx 451 to a Pagan father and  a Christian mother who was also a slave. When pregnant with Brigid her mother met a Bishop who predicted that her child would do many great things ,this Bishop was St. Mel who later consecrated Brigid to  become the first Irish nun .The Saint set up an order of nuns in Ardagh but later moved to Kildare where the King of Leinster told her she could build her Convent on whatever amount of ground that her cloak covered . Miraculously the cloak spread over many acres and covered all of what is now known as The Curragh. During her travels St. Brigid visited a dying pagan Chieften , she began to weave one of her crosses from the rushes spread about the floor and as she formed the green rushes she told him the story of Christ and the meaning of the Cross, he took the Faith and was baptised before he died . The tradition of making St. Brigid crosses continues on throughout Ireland until this day .

St. Brigid is the patron Saint of Dairy Maids , Infants , Blacksmiths , Poets , Nuns and Students .

Parish / G.A.A. Lotto.

There was no winner of the Parish  G.A.A Lotto held in Cox’s Steak House ,Dromod on Sunday night last. The numbers drawn were 1 ; 4 ; 8 15. The winner of the fifty Euro prize was Marguirite O Donoghue Drumlin,The winners of the twenty five Euro prizes are as follows Matty Cox Antfield, Tom Flanagan Mohill, Ber Faughnan Finelaughta, Brendan Bourke,Kilmore. The next draw will be in with a jackpot of 1.400 Euro .

Birthdays.

Special birthday Greetings are sent to the following;

P.J. Gill Coolcrieve, Cian and Aaron Murray Annaduff,Pamela Bourke Albert Lock,

Rachel mc Garry Ballygeeher, Agnes Scollen summerhill, Siobhan Doran Effrinagh, Niall Moran Sligo, Barry Guckian Foxborough, Keith Mc Nulty, Gortconnellon, Maggie Reilly Belmont. Best wishes to one and all from family and friends.