Sunday, July 22, 2012

Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday 22nd July 2012 – 16 B
Tel (090) 9674125.  Email: jimboclonmacnois@gmail.com
Mass times: Shannonbridge: Weekend, 8pm (Sat), & 12 noon, Sun;
Weekdays, 10am.                  Clonfanlough – Sunday, 10.30am

Shannonbridge
Masses: Mon, Wed-Sat @ 10am; Tues @ 8am
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €567.   Many Thanks
Church Cleaners:  J.Kelly, M.Killeen, A.Keena
Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 1
Readers for next Weekend: Group 4, S. Grennan, P.Duffy
Altar Servers for this week: Group 1, Andrea, Stephanie, Jenny, Ciarán
Mass on next Sat eve for the late Mary & John Claffey
Annual Mass for Bord na Mona on Tues @ 8am
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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €172.   Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: C.Spain, C.Guinan
Readers for next Sunday: A.& L.Devery
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 3
Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: K.Kelly

Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock will be on Sun 2nd September


We hope to have Mass with the blessing of graves in Clonmacnois on Sat 4th Aug @ 7pm, & in Glebe on 6th Aug @ 7pm
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 Helpful websites
www.goodnews.ie – an antidote to all the bad news we hear.
www.catholic-pages.com/start/  -- has a huge collection of Catholic links;.  Almost everything you could ever want is there: Apologetics, Bible, Bioethics, Liturgy, Music, Prayer……(from Media Report, published by FMA, whose Motto is: MAGNA EST VERITAS ET PRAEVALEBIT)
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 Knock Summer Festival
Sat 28th July, for 17-30 year olds, with talks, workshops, music, prayer and reflection.  For more info call 087-6927850.  Knock-shrine.ie/youthfestival
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 Youth 2000 Summer Festival, Clonmacnois, 9th -12th August
For young people aged 16-35, an opportunity not to be missed to experience the Catholic faith & meet many new friends.  This Festival has been nicknamed the ‘Holy Oxygen’ with over 1000 young people from all corners of Ireland attending last year.  The festival is by donation only.  Free busses available from around the country.  For more info call 01-6753690.  Email: dublin@youth2000.ie; on line www.youth2000.ie
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New Christians
We welcome into the Christian Community Luke Greene, son of Niall & Patricia Daly; and Liam Fitzpatrick, son of David & Dympna Quinn, who were baptised recently in Shannonbridge Church
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Wedding Celebration
Congratulations & best wishes to Peter Daly & Olive Doolan, who were married in Cloghan Church last weekend.  Ad multos annos!
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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically…Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of education."
                                                                                              (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
 "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
                                                                                                                                                    (Benjamin Franklin)

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