Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter

Sunday 19^th Aug 2012 – 20 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: Each day @ 10am

Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €493.   Many Thanks

Church Cleaners: A.Ryan, L.Turley, M.Mitchell

Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 1

Readers for next Weekend: Group 2, M.Anderson, E.Quinn

Altar Servers for this week: Group 2, Oisín, Saul, Siobhán, Ffion

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Clonfanlough

Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €173.   Many Thanks

Church Cleaners: N.Egan, A.Rohan

Readers for next Sunday: D.Boland

Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 1

Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: N.Egan

Mass on next Sun for the late Bridie, Paddy,Kathleen & John Devery

Diocesan Pilgrimages

Sun 2^nd Sept, Knock.  If you wish to travel by bus let us know ASAP.

Sun 9^th Sept, Pattern Day at Clonmacnois @ 3pm

Sat 8^th Sept, for Feast of St Ciaran, Mass in Clonmacnois @ 7pm

Free Electrical Recycling Day

In Shannonbridge GAA Grounds on Thurs 23^rd Aug , 9am – 12noon.

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Shannonbridge Choir

‘Why not come & join the Choir, and use your gifts for the benefit of the Community?  New members always welcome.  Contact Sr Margaret Mary on 087-2990833.’

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 Famous Quotations

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."

- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"His ignorance is encyclopaedic"

- Abba Eban (1915-2002)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

- Galileo Galilei

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"This book fills a much-needed gap."

- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review