Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday 10th Sept 2006 - 23rd Sun B
Tel (090) 9674125
Fax (090) 9674267
E-mail. clonmacnoispn@eircom.net

Shannonbridge
Masses: Each day @ 10am
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €454. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: M. McManus, C.Slattery, A.Corbett
Eucharistic ministers: Group 3
Readers for next Weekend:
Altar Servers: Dean, Michael, Shannen, Nicola, Kayleigh
Mass on next Sat eve for the late Thomas, Rose & Billy Halloran

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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €162. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: M.Claffey, B.Coughlan
Readers for next Sunday: D.Norton
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 2
Eucharistic minister for next Sunday: B.Coughlan

Shannonbridge Active Retirement Association
Will resume meetings on Tues 12th Sept @ 10.30am.
Mass in Ard Chiaráin on this Mon @7.30pm.
New members welcome.
Wedding Celebration
Congratulations & best wishes to Denise Loonam and James Camplisson, who were married last weekend in Clonfanlough Church. Ad multos annos!
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Offaly Co Childcare Committee
Will begin with FETAC Level 5 training in Birr & Tullamore in Sept. -
Child Development & Early Education modules. Training will take place over 3 hours, 1 evening a week from Sept to Dec.
The cost is €85 per module. Contact 057-9135878 for more info.

Also OCCC in conjunction with Offaly Adult Learning Centre will deliver a Storysacks Programme in Kilcormac in late Sept. A storysack is a big cloth bag that contains children's books & lots of props and activities to bring reading to life.
The programme will run from 8 to 10 weeks for 2 hours 1 morning per week, depending on the needs of the group.
Storysacks are a fun way for children & adults to interact & make reading fun, while developing literary skills, and promoting all areas of development with original games & ideas.
No cost for this programme. For more info call 057-9135878.
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Questions people ask
Q. I came across a novena prayer on a leaflet that said that this prayer was never known to fail. Is this claim true? It didn't work for me.
R. These sorts of claims are ridiculous. How can anybody know whether everybody who said that prayer got his or her answer.
These sorts of prayer, or chain prayers to be circulated to a specified number of people, betray a very shallow idea of God. The kindness of God is not determined by numbers of magical formula. One deep sigh from the heart is a more genuine prayer than any leaflet. (Fr O'Flynn - Intercom)
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"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole person accompanies it." (Emerson)