Sunday, January 26, 2014

Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday  26th Jan 2014 – 3 A
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: €495.    Many Thanks
Church Cleaners:  J.Kelly, M.Killeen, A.Keena,
Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 4
Readers for next Weekend: Group 4, S.Grennan, Sr Marie
Altar Servers for this week: Group 2, Ciarán, Róisín, Ffion, Fiachre
Mass on next Sun for the late Josephine Scicluna
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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €244.   Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: A.Walshe, R.Gunning
Readers for next Sunday: D.Gavin
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 2, Bill, Rosanna, Jane
Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: L.Quinn
Mass on next Sun for the late Mick Rocke

We celebrate the Feast of St Brigid on Sat 1st Feb

Many thanks for your donations to the Lourdes fund last weekend, which realised €600.00.

We Celebrate the Feast of the Presentation, (Candlemas) on next Sun, when we will bless candles for Church & home.
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Mass in the Prayer Centre Clonmacnois every Wed @ 7.30pm
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 Ballinahown Parent & Toddler group - meet every Friday morning from 10:30 to 12:00 in Ballinahown Parish Hall.  Play, stories, art & crafts for the children, and tea/coffee and chat for the parents, grandparents, minders ….. All very welcome.
For more info call 086-8677904
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Medjugorje 28th May for 7 nights, €609.  €50 deposit by 17th Feb secures this price. Contact Josephine Mulryan, 9642635 or 087-7883264.
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 Portiuncula Hospital Remembrance Service
For parents who have suffered a bereavement through the death of their children, miscarriage or stillbirth   , on Mon 3rd Feb @ 7.30pm in the Hospital Chapel.
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Athlone Community College
Adult Education Evening Classes: enrolment dates, Môn 27th Jan & Mon 3rd Feb from 7-8pm. New reduced fees.  First class night 10th Feb.
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 Catholic Schools Week 2014: ‘Places of Faith and Learning’
Catholic Schools Week 2014 will begin on Sunday 26 January and will conclude on 1 February. The theme for Catholic Schools Week this year is ‘Catholic Schools – places of faith and learning’. This year’s theme was chosen to highlight that all learning takes place in a values context. Catholic Schools Week is an occasion to celebrate the work and achievement of Catholic Schools in Ireland, north and south. Resources have been provided to all primary and post-primary schools to assist with the celebration of CSW.
 Catholic education tradition is built on respect for faith and reason, which is the most important principle underpinning such education today.  This helps to explain why Catholic schools are so popular and respected throughout the world,
There is no contradiction between being a fully educated person and a committed Christian.


Sunday, January 19, 2014

Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday  19th Jan 2014 – 2 A
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: €532.      Many Thanks
Church Cleaners:  M.Darcy, M.Murtagh, M.McManus
Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 3
Readers for next Weekend: Group 3,K.O’Connor, O.Costello
Altar Servers for this week: Group 1,Stephanie, Jenny, Adam, Matthew
Mass on next Sat eve for the late Geraldine, Tommy & Simon McManus
Anniversary Mass for Michael Shrahan on next Sun

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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €290.   Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: M.Guinan, A.Guinan
Readers for next Sunday: C.O’Shea
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group  1, Aaron, Conor x2, Eoin
Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: N.O’Shea
Mass on next Sun for the late Brigid Rigney

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins this Sat 18th Jan and concludes on 25th Jan, feast of the Conversion of St Paul.
Lourdes Invalid Fund Collection this weekend
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 Ballinahown Parent & Toddler group - meet every Friday morning from 10:30 to 12:00 in Ballinahown Parish Hall.  Play, stories, art & crafts for the children, and tea/coffee and chat for the parents, grandparents, minders ….. All very welcome.
For more info call 086-8677904
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Medjugorje 28th May for 7 nights, €609.  €50 deposit by 17th Feb secures this price. Contact Josephine Mulryan, 9642635 or 087-7883264.
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 SAFETALK
This is a ‘Suicide Alertness’ programme that prepares participants to identify & engage with persons who may be having thoughts of suicide.  Participants also learn how to provide practical help by using the steps of
TALK (Tell, Ask, Listen, Keepsafe), and gain information on the supports & resources available locally, regionally & nationally,       
For more info contact Josephine Rigney, A/Suicide Prevention Resource Officer on 086-8157850, or 057-9357807.
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 Athlone Community College
Adult Education Evening Classes: enrolment dates, Môn 27th Jan & Mon 3rd Feb from 7-8pm. New reduced fees.  First class night 10th Feb.
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 Portiuncula Hospital Remembrance Service
For parents who have suffered a bereavement through the death of their children, miscarriage or stillbirth   , on Mon 3rd Feb @ 7.30pm in the Hospital Chapel.
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Words of inspiration                                                ( Moytura.com)
Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve; Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness but there is the discovery of joy
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business, looking back strains the neck and causes you to bump into people not going your way.”   




Sunday, January 12, 2014

Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday  12th Jan 2014 – Ubatizo wa Y.K. A
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: €477.    Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: A.Ryan, L.Turley, M.Mitchell
Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 2
Readers for next Weekend: Group 2, M.Anderson, E.Quinn
Altar Servers for this week: Group 3, Alisa, Katie, Lauren
Mass on next Sun for the late James Higgins
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Clonfanlough
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €242.  Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: B.Higgin, D.Guinan
Readers for next Sunday: A.Kelly
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 3, Celine, Conor D. Adam
Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: P.Trainor
Mass on next Sun for John Loonam & family deceased

Mass in the prayer Centre Clonmacnois next Wed & every Wed @ 7.30pm

Night Prayer Vigil in Clonmacnois Prayer Centre
Fri 17th Jan, beginning with Mass @ 10pm.  Adoration follows and finishes at 3.10am.  All welcome.  Enquiries Dave 085-7746763
The Year to come – some central Feasts in 2014
The centre of the whole liturgical year is the Paschal Triduum of the Lord, crucified, buried and risen, which will culminate in the solemn Vigil of Easter, during the holy night that will end with the dawn of the 20th April – Easter Sunday.
Every Sunday, as a weekly Easter, holy Church makes present that great and saving deed by which Christ has forever conquered sin and death.                                                                                                From Easter there comes forth and are reckoned all the days we keep holy: Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, 5th March;
the Ascension of the Lord, 1st June; and  Pentecost, 8th June;
First Sunday of Advent, 30th November.
Likewise, in the feasts of the Holy Mother of God, of the apostles and saints, and in the commemoration of all the faithful departed, the pilgrim Church on earth proclaims the resurrection of Christ the Lord.

We will celebrate Confirmation on 9th April with the new Bishop
We will celebrate First Holy Communion on 18th May
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Lourdes Invalid Fund Collection
We have been requested to take up this collection as a second collection after Holy Communion on next weekend, 18/19th Jan.
Your support will be much appreciated.
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Thoughts to Ponder                        ( Moytura.com)
 When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was  smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
 When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.




Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter
Sunday  5th Jan 2014 – 2 Christmas A
Tel (090) 9674125.  Email: jimboclonmacnois@gmail.com
Mass times: Shannonbridge: Weekend, 8pm (Sat), & 12 noon, Sun;
Weekdays, 10am.                  Clonfanlough – Sunday, 10.30am

Shannonbridge
Masses: Tues- Sat @ 10am;  Mon 6th Jan @ 12noon – this is the feast of Epiphany – a Holy Day; Mass also on Mon eve @ 7pm
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €545.     Many Thanks
Church Cleaners:  K.Price, C.Curley, P.Anderson
Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 1
Readers for next Weekend: Group 1, D.Finnerty, P. Corbett
Altar Servers for this week: Group 2, Ciarán, Róisín, Ffion, Fiachre
Mass on next Sun for the late Michael Brennan

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Clonfanlough
Mass for the Epiphany on Mon @ 10.30am – this is a Holy Day
Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €178.   Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: C.Spain, C.Guinan
Readers for next Sunday: E.McEvoy
Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 2
Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: A.Guinan
Mass on next Sun for the late Mary & Kieran Daly and Tom Mannion

Reflection on PEACE

P is for prayer that stills the heart

E is for each other, where harmony starts

A is for all, whom we should love

C is for caring, like Mary above

E is for everything that God gives

Peace is forever while Jesus lives

"Peace is the nurse of love, the mother of unity, the repose of the blessed, and our eternal home."                             (St Bernard)
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A word from the late Cardinal Hume as we begin a New Year:
'You think because you don't find prayer easy, because attendance at Mass is not congenial, because your record in the service of God
is not good, that the things of God are not for you.  Can't you see that the more inadequate you are the more you need God's help?'
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Teach the Next Generation                       ( Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or fear."
Discover One’s Mission                             (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Every person must have a concern for self, and feel a responsibility to discover one’s mission in life. God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us without talent. Potential powers of creativity are within us, and we have a duty to work assiduously to discover these powers."
 
Making Mistakes                                          (Benjamin Franklin)

"The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing." 

Monday, January 06, 2014

Shannonbridge GAA Club Notes


Sympathy.
Sincere sympathy to the family of Paul Kelly on his sudden and untimely passing last week.  May he rest in peace.

Shannonbridge / Doon Lottery.
There was no jackpot winner last week.  The numbers drawn were 7, 14, 17 and 24.  There was one match three winner.  This week’s jackpot is €4,600.