Clonmacnois
Parish Newsletter
Sunday 23rd
June 2013 – 12 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: Daily @ 10am, Fri @ 7pm
Last Sunday's
Offertory collection:. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: M.Darcy,
M.Murphy, M.McManus
Ministers of Holy
Communion:
Group 1
Readers
for next Weekend: Group 4, S.Grennan, Sr Marie
Altar Servers for
this week:
Group 1, Andrea, Stephanie, Jenny
‘Months
Mind’ Mass for Brigid Cassidy on next Sat eve
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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's
Offertory collection. Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: M.Devery,
A.Kelly
Readers for next
Sunday:
A.Kelly
Altar Servers for
next Sunday: Group 1
Minister of Holy
Communion for next Sunday: N.O’Shea
Shannonbridge ARA
Summer Social will take place in the Hall on next Fri after Mass @
7pm. All welcome.
All-Ireland Rally for Life on Sat 6th July in Parnell Sq,
Dublin City Centre, @ 2pm
‘Let’s keep the momentum for life alive. Come & see: pro-life speakers;
pro-life bands; family friendly fun.’
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“Bernie and Deirdre Boland would like to thank
everyone for their generosity towards Arthritis Ireland.
We raised a total of €700, which will go towards
much needed research and care. Thanks to all, who baked and purchased cakes,
donated or helped in anyway.”
Irish Cancer Society sends heartfelt
thanks for your contributions to the recent Church gate Collection which
realised €480.
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George
Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free
thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, “The science to which I pinned my faith is
bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led,
instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them once. In their name
I helped to destroy the faith of millions of worshippers in the temples of a
thousand creeds. And now they look at me and witness the great tragedy of an
atheist who has lost his faith.” (Source unknown)
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YEAR OF FAITH
CELEBRATIONS
Sat 27th
July
, Mass & blessing of graves in Clonmacnois @ 7.30pm
Thurs 15th
Aug,
Mass for Cluster Parishes in Clonmacnois @ 7.30pm
Sun 1st
Sept, Diocesan
Pilgrimage to Knock
Sun 15th
Sept, Pattern day in Clonmacnois starting @ 3pm
You might like to
visit Lough Derg, where the 3-day Pilgrimages run until 13th Aug
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Questions people ask (Fr
O’Flynn-Intercom)
Q. Why is the Eve of St John the Baptist celebrated as
bonfire night?
A. It takes
over from the fires of the pagan mid-Summer festival which marked the start of
the sun’s decline. The humble John the Baptist regarded himself as a light
destined to decrease as the light of Christ took over. I remember an old lady
blessing our bonfire with a yellow weed called St John’s Wort. An ancient
legend held that this plant was tipped with the Baptist’s blood
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