Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday 29th March 2009 – 5 Lent B
Tel (090) 9674125 Fax (090) 9674267
Mass times: Shannonbridge: Weekend, 8pm (Sat), & 12 noon, Sun;
Weekdays, 10am. Clonfanlough – Sunday, 10.30am
Shannonbridge
Masses: Each day @ 10am
Adoration on First Fri until 5pm
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €466. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: K.Price, ClCurley, P.Anderson
Eucharistic ministers: Group 4
Readers for next Weekend: Group 2, C.Casey, E.Quinn
Altar Servers for this week: Caitríona, Siobhan
Mass on next Sat eve for Frank Coleman & family deceased

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Clonfanlough
Mass on First Fri @ 7pm
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €208. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: M.Halligan, M.Kelly
Readers for next Sunday: D. Norton
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group A
Eucharistic minister for next Sunday: A.Rohan
Mass on next Sun for the late Jim & Ciss O’Shea

Prayer Centre Clonmacnois
Family Mass with healing service on Wed 1st April @ 7.30pm.
Principal celebrant will be Fr Lorenzo Bracken. All welcome
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Questions people askQ. I’ve always wondered what is meant by the line in the Apostles Creed, ‘He descended into hell’.A. A more recent translation of this creed states that Jesus descended to the dead. This makes it more clear that it wasn’t into the hell of the damned that he descended, but that his death was real and brought him to all the dead who were waiting on the Redeemer. To quote the Catechism of the Catholic Church: ‘Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.’Fr Silvester O’Flynn OFM Cap
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Ardagh & Clonmacnois Pilgrimage to Lourdes
27th May - 1st June -- 5 nights -- fully inclusive price: €725.00
Booking forms available now for the Pilgrim Section from
Joe Walsh Tours, 143 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2.
Tel 01-2410810. Pilgrimage director, Fr Noonan, Moate.
Application forms available for Invalid Section.
Contact Fr Scanlon, Cloghan, at 090-6457122.
Flights will depart from Knock
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West Offaly Education Project
Will hold an Open / Enrolment Evening on Wed 1st April @ 8pm in Clonfanlough Hall. Courses on offer include Computers for Beginners, Intermediate Computers, Interior Design, Tai Chi, Organic Gardening, Digital Photography and many more.
For more info call 057-9351392 or 057 -9151622.
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New Christians
We welcome into the Christian Community those who were baptised since the beginning of this year:
John Price, son of John & Noreen; Michael Carty, son of Mark & Caroline; Shane Kelly, son of Paul & Antoinette.