Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter

Sunday 20^th Jan 2013 – 2 C

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: €489.   Many Thanks

Church Cleaners:  G.Brennan, D.Deeley, V.Hynes

Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 3

Readers for next Weekend: Group 6, A.Hynes, D.O’Carroll

Altar Servers for this week: Group 3, Alisa, Jack, Katie

Mass on next Sat eve for the late Tommy, Geraldine & Simon McManus

Anniversary  Mass on next Sun for Josephine Scicluna

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Clonfanlough

Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €251.   Many Thanks

Church Cleaners: D.Fitzgerald

Readers for next Sunday: A.Coughlan

Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 1

Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: B.Coughlan

‘Months Mind’ Mass for Kieran & Sheila Maleney on next Sun

Clonmacnois Prayer Centre:  Mass on this Wed & every Wed @ 7.30pm

Shannonbridge ARA

Will resume Meetings on this Tues @10.30am in the Parish Hall.  All welcome.

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RUAH: Youth Prayer Meeting.
Elation Ministries, a group of young people committed to spreading the Good News through worship and song, invite you to Ruah, this Friday, 25th January from 8pm-09:30pm.  (And on the last Friday of each month)  It will consist of Prayer through music, time of silence, and a reflection on scripture from Rev Michael Duignan, Diocese of Elphin and Lecturer in St Angela's College, Sligo. All are welcome to attend this time of prayer in the Chapel of Adoration, 8 Castle Street Athlone. For more info please contact 0879404299, or check out www.elationministries.com.

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 Questions people ask

Q. At the wedding in Cana there were six large jars, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. That would come to five hundred bottles or more! Are these numbers to be taken literally or symbolically?
A. Common sense demands that we look for symbolism. The setting is the marriage of an unnamed couple. The evangelist John is interested in the wedding of God and humanity in the mission of Jesus. As the multiplication of the loaves and fishes prepared the disciples to accept the consecration of the bread at the Last Supper, similarly the miracle of the wine foreshadowed the consecration of the wine into the blood of Christ. It was the blood of Christ which sealed the new covenant as a marriage bond by which people are adopted as the children of God.

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Catholic Schools Week

Sun 27^th Jan marks the beginning of Catholic Schools Week 2013.

The purpose of the week is to highlight & celebrate the wonderful contribution that Catholic schools make to our local community & society in general.  The theme of this year’s celebration is Catholic Schools in the Community of Faith: Sharing the Good News.

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On next Sun in Clonfanlough Church we will have the Mass for the “Do this in Memory” Children, preparing for First Confession & First Communion.