Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday 10th April 2005 - 3rd Sun Easter A
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Shannonbridge
Masses: Mon-Thurs & Sat @ 10am
Mass on Fri eve @ 8pm - for the late Mary Martin
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €460. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: M.Killeen, A.Keena
Eucharistic ministers: Group 1
Readers for next Weekend: C.Mannion, K.Coakley
Altar Servers for this week: Darragh, Ruaidhrí, Michael, Graham
Mass on next Sat eve for the late Mary-Anne Flannery

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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €150. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: J.Noble, D.Fitzgerald
Readers for next Sunday: A.Coughlan
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 3
Eucharistic minister for next Sunday: K.Kelly

We welcome into the Christian Community Matthew Darcy, son of Vincent & Gerardine, who was baptised recently in Shannonbridge.


In memory of the late Pope John Paul - requiescat in pace!
Many tributes have been paid world-wide to the man who guided the Church for over 26 years, and won the admiration of the great and the humble. Clonmacnois has a very special reason to remember him with gratitude because of his visit here in 1979.
For this reason a Service of Remembrance, Thanksgiving & Prayer will be held on Sun 17th April @ 6pm in Clonmacnois.
Bishop Colm O'Reilly will preside, and other priests in the Deanery will attend. All are welcome.
Let us call to mind the words he spoke about Clonmacnois after his return to Rome in St Peter's Square:
"I will never forget that place, in which we stopped for a short time, in the early morning hours on Sun 30th Sept: Clonmacnois. The ruins of the Monastery & the Churches speak of the life that once pulsated there……….It is difficult to look on those ruins merely as a monument of the past; whole generations of Europe owe to them the light of the Gospel and the structural framework of their culture. Those ruins are still charged with a great mission. They still constitute a challenge……Here is Ireland: at the heart of the perennial mission of the Church, which St Patrick started."
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Celebration of Confirmation
We celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation in Ferbane Church on Thurs 21st April @ 12noon. All welcome.
The Ceremony of Light (Family Preparation) will take place in Clonfanlough Church on Thurs next @ 8pm. There will be light refreshments in the Hall afterwards, and all participants are invited.
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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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Ballinasloe Flower & Garden Club
Presents A Floral Demonstration by Samantha Foran in Haydens hotel on Wed 13th April @ 8pm
Members' competition: 'Blossom Time'. Adm for non-members: €5.

Many thanks for your generous contributions to the Trócaire Lenten Campaign. As a result we have sent €3,300 to Trócaire.