Clonmacnois Parish Newsletter

Sunday  2^nd Aug 2015 –18 B

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.  Adoration on First Fri 4 -45pm

Last Sunday's Offertory collection: €537.     Many Thanks

Church Cleaners:  J.Kelly, M.Killeen, A.Keena

Ministers of Holy Communion: Group 3

Readers for next Weekend: Group 6, F.Anderson, D.O’Carroll

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

Mass on next Sat eve for the late Rosie Curley & Claffey family

Mass on next Sun for the late Brian Coakley & family

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Clonfanlough

Mass on First Fri @ 7pm

Last Sunday's Offertory collection: € 171.  Many Thanks

Church Cleaners: A.McEvoy

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 in the Prayer Centre Clonmacnois every Wed @ 7.30pm

Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock will be on Sun 6^th September

 Mass & the Blessing of the Graves in Mullinakill graveyard, Glebe on Mon 3^rd Aug @ 7pm

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Upcoming events in Pastoral area

 Climbing Croagh Patrick, Mon 3^rd Aug,bus leaving Banagher at 8am, Cloghan 8:10approx Ferbane 8:20, Ballinahown 8:30am.  Fare €5.

If you wish to go,please contact Niamh Egan on 086-3320017.

SHANNON HARBOUR MASS  @ 7pm on Thursday August 20^th  .

The theme of this Mass will be ‘Remembering our Emigrants.’

You are invited to write down the names of members of your families living abroad (along with the country or city in which they are living), in the book which will be placed in a strategic place in your local Church.

You might like to include those who have died far from their homeland.

The books will then be taken and placed before the Altar at this Mass.

‘Ar scath a chéile a mhaireas na daoine.’

FAMILY DAY. Aug 23^rd 2-5p.m. (Prayer at 2p.m.) Cloghan GAA grounds

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Reminders form the Bishop

 A National Eucharistic Congress (NEC) will be held in Knock on Saturday 26^th and Sunday 27^th September 2015.  This is a nationwide event, and one that involves us here in our parish. The theme is ‘Christ our Hope’, found in the readings each Sunday until September 26/27. This week you are invited to think about what hope means to you, and from where your hope comes.

 The NEC is a follow on from the International Eucharistic Congress of 2012 and is also a preparation for the next congress to be held in Cebu, The Philippines, in January 2016.  The website for the Cebu International Eucharistic Congress is:  http://iec2016.ph/  

The Clonmacnois Deanery will hold a Day of Prayer and Reflection in the Sheraton Hotel, Athlone on 6^th August, to mark the Year for Consecrated Life.  A Diocesan Event to mark the conclusion of the Year for Consecrated Life will take place on Saturday 30^th January in the Pastoral Centre and St Mel’s Cathedral.  

The Clonmacnois Pattern Day on Sunday 13^th September will commemorate 1400^th anniversary of the death of St Columbanus