Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter

Sunday 5^th May 2013 – 6 Easter 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: €500.   Many Thanks

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

Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 2

Readers for next Weekend: Group 3, M.Killeen, O.Costello

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

Mass on next Sat eve for the late Jim & Mary Kate Higgins

Mass on next Sun for the late Pat Killeen

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Clonfanlough

Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €192.   Many Thanks

Church Cleaners: A.Walshe, R.Gunning

Readers for next Sunday: D.Gavin

Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 3

Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: P.Trainor

Mass on next Sun for the late Rose Daly

 

We will celebrate First Holy Communion in Clonfanlough Church on next Sat 11^th May @ 12noon

Questions people ask

Q. Is it possible to have faith in God without having faith in the Church?

A. There are many who have a deep love of the Bible and faith in God but they do not belong to the Catholic Church or to any other institutional Church. However, their faith is seriously lacking if they disregard what the Bible says about being members of the Body of Christ (1 Cor 12), the Church as the bride of Christ (Eph 5:25) or the Church as the pillar and ground of truth (1 Tim 3:15). The oldest document of the New Testament is Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians which refers to the community of faith, hope and love already in existence before a word of the New Testament was written. And who decided on which books should be in the Bible? The Church … in various synods and councils. There would be no New Testament without the Church community which produced it.

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Mass & Rosary in Prayer Centre Clonmacnois every Wed @ 7.30pm

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  YEAR OF FAITH

During this Year of Faith it is planned to have a pilgrimage- celebration centred on the Sacraments in 7 historical / religious sites across the 4 Cluster parishes of Clonmacnois, Cloghan/Banagher, Ferbane, and Ballinahown.  It is hoped to involve all groups in the Parishes, starting on Thurs 4^th July, and continuing each Thurs @ 7.30pm.   Each parish will take responsibility for the pilgrimage- celebration at its own venue.  These locations will be selected in the coming days.  The concluding pilgrimage-celebration will be in Clonmacnois on Thurs 15^th August, and the Sacramental theme will be the Blessed Eucharist.  

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 Ballinasloe Flower & Garden Club

Flower Arranging Demo by Margaret Quinn, Aoifa, in Gullanes hotel on Wed 8^th May @ 8pm.  Adm: Non-members, €5.00

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On Education

  "Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."   (William Haley)

 "To educate a man or woman in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."                                                       (Theodore Roosevelt)