Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter

Sunday  4^th Jan 2015 –2 Christmas B

Tel (090) 9674125.  Email: jimboclonmacnois@gmail.com

Mass times: Shannonbridge: Weekend, 8pm (Sat), & 12 noon, Sun;

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Shannonbridge

Masses: Each day @ 10am; Tues 6^th Jan @ 12noon – this is the feast of Epiphany – a Holy Day; Vigil Mass on Mon eve @ 7pm

 Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €460.     Many Thanks

Church Cleaners:  K.Price, C.Curley, P.Anderson

Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 1

Readers for next Weekend: Group 5, L.Moran, C.Doolan

Altar Servers for this week: Group 3, Katie, Lauren, Kate

Mass on next Sun for the late Michael Brennan

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Clonfanlough

Mass for the Epiphany on Tues @ 10.30am – this is a Holy Day

 Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €148.   Many Thanks

Church Cleaners: A  .Kelly, M.Devery

Readers for next Sunday: C. & P.Rigney

Altar Servers for next Sunday: Group 3, Conor, Adam, Róisín

Minister of Holy Communion for next Sunday: E.Molloy

Mass on next Sun for the late Petie & Earl Kelly

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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 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 5^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, 18^th Feb

the Ascension of the Lord, 17^th May; and  Pentecost, 24^th May;

First Sunday of Advent 29^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.

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Thought for the New Year

“Count your blessings.  Once you realise how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward toward the life that God intended for you.....with grace, strength, courage and confidence.”                          (Og Mandino,.p.53)

‘A íosa a cheannaigh mé, A Íosa a bheannaigh mé,

Le saol na saol go raibh i bhFlaitheas mé.’