Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter

Sunday  12^th 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 17^th 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 20^th 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, 1^st June; and  Pentecost, 8^th June;

First Sunday of Advent, 30^th 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 9^th April with the new Bishop

We will celebrate First Holy Communion on 18^th 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, 18/19^th 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.