Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday 16th Jan 2011 -2 A
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
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €502. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: G.Brennan, D.Deeley, V.Hynes
Eucharistic ministers: Group 2
Readers for next Weekend: Group 4, S.Grennan, P.Duffy
Altar Servers for this week: Siobhán, Sarah, Alisa, Ciarán
Mass on next Sat eve for the late Joe Coleman
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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €302. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: J.& C.Rigney
Readers for next Sunday: A.Coughlan
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 1
Eucharistic minister for next Sunday: P. Darcy
Mass on next Sun for John Loonam & family deceased.

Shannonbridge ARA will resume meetings on next Tues @10.30am. All welcome.

Week of prayer for Christian Unity: 18th – 25th Jan.
Night Prayer Vigil in Clonmacnois Prayer Centre
Fri 21st Jan, beginning with Mass @ 10pm. Adoration follows and finishes at 3.10am. All welcome. Enquiries Dave 085-7746763 . Mass every Wed at the Centre @ 7.30pm
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Family Centre Ballinasloe
Eamon Rogers, Consultant Urologist, will give a talk on Prostate Cancer on 31st Jan @ 8pm. Please call 0879840304 in order to register.
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Questions people ask Q. It upsets me that none of my grown-up children go to Mass and have not brought their children for baptism. They say that it is only a matter of time before the Catholic Church in Ireland is extinct. How can I answer them? A. The Catholic Church is far from extinct. My guess is that we probably have two million people at Mass on any Sunday. The Catholic Church has survived many crises over its 2,000 years. A famous writer said that there were five times in history when the Church had gone to the dogs but it was the dogs that died! Jesus promised: ‘You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of the underworld can never overpower it.’ The words of Jesus contain the answer for your children.
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This is World Migrant and Refugee Sunday (Pope Benedict XVI)
“All belong to the one family, migrants and the local populations that welcome them, and all have the same right to enjoy the goods of the earth whose destination is universal, as the social doctrine of the Church teaches.
It is here that solidarity and sharing are founded.
Immigrants have the duty to integrate into the host country, respecting its laws & its national identity.”
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Shannonbridge GAA Minor Club
AGM will take place on Mon 17th Jan @ 8pm in the Club meeting rooms.