Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday 3rd April 2005 - 2nd Sun Easter A
Tel (090) 9674125
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Shannonbridge
Masses: Each day @ 10am
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €628. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: A.Gunning, M.Kelly
Eucharistic ministers: Group 4
Readers for next Weekend: S.Grennan, O.Costello
Altar Servers for this week: Shannen, Nicola, Brian, Kayleigh
Mass on nest Sat morning for the late Tom Kitt & family.
Mass on next Sat eve for the late Paddy Duffy
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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €386. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: C.Healy, T.Milner
Readers for next Sunday: I.Maleney
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 2
Eucharistic minister for next Sunday: P.Darcy

Today is Divine Mercy Sunday, ‘the day the gates of Heaven are open’. For more info visit www.divinemercy.info
Shannonbridge Healthy Community Project
Meeting in Shannonbridge Hall on Tues 5th April @ 9pm.
Amanda Pedlow from Offaly Co Council will attend.
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Athlone M.E. Support Group
First meeting in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel on Wed 13th April @ 8pm. All welcome!
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"I'm a perfectly healthy man - and yet every time there a lingering fear that this might be the big one. This maybe is the one that will never go away. That fear really grips you. People say snap out of it. But you don't. You pull yourself down into it. Security resides in the feeling of sadness. It is a weird thing. It is a pit and you pull yourself into the pit. There is no sense that you want to fight it."
Film producer, David Puttnam, describing in the Guardian, the dark grip of ME in his life.
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Offaly Co Childcare Committee
Will hold a Parent's Conference for parents of children aged 0-14, on Sat 23rd April from 9.30 - 4.30pm. The conference is open to all parents in the County, & will take place in the Tullamore Court Hotel
The theme is Care & Lifelong Learning in the Family
For more info call 0509-35878.
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Helpful Website: www.nonameclub.ie
The No Name Club is a club for young people, organised by young people with the help of adults. There are about 30 such clubs in Ireland, providing young people with an opportunity to make friends and enjoy social activities in a friendly & healthy atmosphere without the use of drugs or alcohol. Contact information is available for anyone wishing to discover more.
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Pilgrimage to Rome & Bobbio from the Kilmore area
Also visiting Florence; August 4 - 11.
For more info call Kieran or Laura Troy on 0506-55050
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'Education without religion, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a person a more clever devil.' C.S.Lewis