Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter

Sunday 24^th Feb 2013 – 2 Lent 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; Adoration on First Fri 4 – 5pm

Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €548.   Many Thanks

Church Cleaners: J.Kelly, M.Killeen, A.Keena

Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 4

Readers for next Weekend: Group 5, ?  C.Doolan

Altar Servers for this week: Group 2, Ciarán, Saul, Róisín, Ffion

‘Months Mind’ Mass for Kathleen Turley on next Sat eve

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Clonfanlough

Mass on First Fri @ 7pm

Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €144.   Many Thanks

Church Cleaners: K.Kenny, A.Kearns

Readers for next Sunday: D.Gavin

Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 3

Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: A.Rohan

Mass on next Sun for the late Sonny Egan

Mass in Prayer Centre Clonmacnois every Wed @ 7.30pm.  All welcome.

 Lenten Prayer continues in Ard Chiaráin on Mon @ 8pm.  All welcome

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 PUSH!

When everything seems to go wrong ... just P.U.S.H. When the job gets you down ... just P.U.S.H. When people don't react the way you think they should... just P.U.S.H. When your money is "gone" and the bills are due...just P.U.S.H. When people just don't understand you ... just P.U.S.H.!

P=Pray;   U=Until;   S=Something;   H=Happens

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This Logo for the Year of Faith displays the image of a ship, symbolising the Church.  The mast of the vessel is a cross with full-blown sails which form the monogram of Christ (IHS, which are the first 3 letters in capital form for the         Greek word for Jesus), and in the background is a sun representing the Eucharist.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK                                               (Fr O’Flynn – Intercom)

 Q. What can I say to my son who has far more education than me when he says that religion has no place in the advanced, scientific world of today?                                     A. There is a strong surge of militant atheism today claiming that there is no basis for what is called the God hypothesis. However there always have been and still are great scientists who are religious believers, such as Francis Collins, famous for his work in mapping the human genome. The Nobel Prize winner, Werner Heisenberger, wrote, ‘the first sip from the cup of natural sciences makes atheists, but at the bottom of the cup God is waiting.’ A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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 Church gate Collection for Esophageal Cancer Fund next weekend