Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter

Sunday  5^th 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 6^th 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."