Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter Sunday 17th April 2011 - Passion/ Palm A Tel (090) 9674125 Fax (090) 9674267 Mass times: Shannonbridge: Weekend, 8pm (Sat), & 12 noon, Sun; Weekdays, 10am. Clonfanlough – Sunday, 10.30am Shannonbridge Masses: Mon-Wed @ 10am Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €397. Many Thanks Church Cleaners: J.Kelly, M.Killeen, A.Keena Eucharistic ministers: Group 3 Readers for next Weekend: Group as arranged Altar Servers for this week: Oisín, Andrea, Stephanie Mass on next Sat eve for Jack & Katie Shea deceased ¨¨¨¨ Clonfanlough Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €259. Many Thanks Church Cleaners: K.Kenny, A.Kearns Readers for next Sunday: C.Norton Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 2 Eucharistic minister for next Sunday: K.Kelly CELEBRATION OF RECONCILIATION: Tuesday 19th April Clonfanlough: 7.00pm; Shannonbridge: 8pm Confessions also possible after the Good Friday Ceremonies. HOLY WEEK CEREMONIES Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper with a Vigil of Adoration Shannonbridge: 9pm; Clonfanlough: 7pm Good Friday: Celebration of the Lord’s Passion: Shannonbridge: 8pm; Clonfanlough 6pm Also in Shannonbridge @ 3pm: STATIONS OF THE CROSS Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence. Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil and Mass: Shannonbridge: 9pm; Clonfanlough: 7pm Please bring a candle for the Renewal of Baptismal Promises. Please bring your Trócaire offerings on Holy Thurs or Good Friday Questions people ask: Q. What did Jesus suffer in the agony in Gethsemane? A. The hypostatic union, the unity of divine and human natures in Jesus, is beyond our experience, yet on the ordinary human level we can understand his fear at the prospect of the suffering he was soon to undergo. He suffered in leaving his mother and in thinking of the sword of sorrow piercing her soul, as Simeon had predicted. Traditional meditation books pictured all the filth of sin sweeping over him in a torrent. Deepest of all was the darkness of spirit he suffered in becoming sin, as St Paul put it. The dark dereliction he suffered was that awful sense of alienation from God which is the ultimate pain of hell. Ardagh & Clonmacnois Pilgrimage to Lourdes, 27th May-1st June Flights from Knock; fully inclusive price €699. For more info contact Joe Walsh Tours, tel. 01-2410812. Pilgrimage director is Fr B. Noonan; for the invalids, Fr M. Scanlon. If you would like to travel as an invalid please let us know ASAP "Farmers, IFFPG Bring Centre at Duffy's Hardware Store, Ballydangan, Athlone on Monday 18th April. Bring 6 digit code to avail of discount. Contact 094 98 80251, 0872244945."