PARISH OF CLONMACNOIS
September 11th Bulletin

St. Ciaran's, Shannonbridge

St. Ciaran's, Clonfanlough 

Fr. Tom Cox Adm. (Administrator) Tel. 090 9674125/ 086-8319500                               

   E-mail: thomascox@eircom.net   shannonbridge.blogspot.ie

MASSES FOR SEPTEMBER 10th / 11th

Sat 10^th September, 8.00 p.m. Mass for the people of the Parish, 

Sunday 11th, 10.30 a.m., Clonfanlough, Guinan family deceased

 MASSES FOR SEPTEMBER 18th 

                     Sat 17th 8p.m. —

Sun. 18th Sept 10:30 Michael & Lena O’Shea (Clonlyon)

Sunday Mass in nearby churches:- St. Mary’s, Cloonfad, 10.00 a.m.;  Sts. Patrick and Saran, High Street, 12.00 noon.;  St. Mary’s, Ferbane, 7.00 p.m.

Weekdays: Shannonbridge: 10a.m. Prayer Service (Mon 12^th-Sat 17^th)

Weekday Mass in Cloonfad Mon/Tues/Thur/Fri at 10:00a.m.

[Owing to a prior Commitment Fr. Tom Cox will be away attending “A Time for Priests” course Mon 12^th-Sat 17^th]

Newsletter.  Items for inclusion  by 6.00 p.m. on Thursday,  please.  As Fr. Tom is away,Email only to thomascox@eircom.net

Offertory Sept 4^th/5th €780 

Shrine €435 (June 1^st-Sept 4^th period)

Thank you for supporting the parish.

A Word in Your Ear... Fifteen years ago today, the world stopped! 9/11 is now a Red Letter Day. AlQaeda hijackers flew two 767 jets into the World Trade Centre, demolishing both towers. Best estimates reckon that 2,752 people from more than sixty nations died at the scene. However, far more shocking still are the fatalities suffered in the subsequent ‘War on Terror’ pursued in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan: at least 225,000 people were killed and 1,640,000 injured, according to a Research Project based at Brown University. That amounts to an awful lot of suffering. What, if anything, was unique about the original 9/11 attack? Hiroshima, after all, claimed far more lives. So why did the Twin Towers disaster have such an impact? 9/11 was never about numbers or ‘the body count’; 9/11 was, in the vocabulary of terrorism, about the ‘Spectacular’, the dramatic impact. The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in the context of a world war. The explicit intention of that act was to bring that drawn-out war to an end. 9/11 was intended to provoke war of another kind, to set two distinct civilisations at each others throats. 9/11 was shocking at several levels. The primary level was human, of course. Ordinary workers settling into another day's routine, plane passengers on one more flight. We have all been  there at desk or gangway. It was a surreal day scorched in memory.

                   UPCOMING CHURCH ROSTERS                                                                  

Shannonbridge:   17^th Sept 8:00p.m.                                                                                      

     Altar Servers: Group 1, Roisin, Darragh, Matthew & Emily                                                   

Reader: Linda Moran                                   

  Eucharistic Minister: Dympna Fitzpatrick                                                          

  Church Cleaners Shannonbridge Eileen Quinn, Dolly Deeley, Veronica Hynes

Clonfanlough:- 18^th Sept 10:30a.m.            

Altar Servers: Group 3, Conor D, Adam E., Charlie Gilson, Kelan C                               

Reader: Anne Rohan                                    

   Minister of the Eucharist: Mary Kelly

Cleaners for Clonfanlough church for September are:  Ann McEvoy, Eilish Egan and Breda Maleney .

Dan Edwards’ book "The Life and Times of a Craftsman" on sale in local outlets, including: Moran's, Shannonbridge, The Shop at Clonmacnois, Rohan's, Ballinahown& Cahill's, Belmont.  The very attractive volume is priced at €20.00. 

 Flower Arranging.  Ballinasloe Flower and Garden Club hosts a Flower Arranging Demonstration, by Ann Slattery, Ennis branch, The Association of Irish Floral Artists, in Gullane’s Hotel, Main Street, Ballinasloe, at 8.00 p.m., on Wednesday, 14th September.  Arranger’s competition: Nature’s bounty - foliage only.  Grower’s competition: Variety of home-grown fruit.  Admission, non-members, €5.00.                               

Shannonbridge Active Retirement Association will have an outing to Galway on Tuesday, 13^th Sept. 2016. Bus will be at the Church at 9:00a.m. 

Coffee Morning for Offaly Hospice after 10a.m. Mass on Thursday 15^th Sept in Killeens 

Ballinasloe Cancer Support Centre thank you for the sum of €105.20 raised at July 2^nd Church Gate Collection

 SUNDAY 11th SEPTEMBER

Clonmacnois Pattern Day  where our parish welcomes all “Ciaran’s people” to Clonmacnois. Pattern Prayers begins at 2:45p.m. Mass begins at 3.00 p.m.

Prayer to St Ciarán

St Ciarán Patron of our diocese.   

Watch over your people.                

Teacher and friend,                                                                     

Help us to see God’s presence,

Prayerful youth. Inspire the young.

Pilgrim for God, Be with all missionaries.

Steep us in gospel ways. Protector and patron,

Confirm our faith, So that we may walk anew with Christ. 

HARVEST STATION

Saints of the Week  Mon 12^th The Most Holy Name of Mary; Tues 13^th  St. John Chrysostom; Wed 14^th The Exaltation of the Holy Cross; Thurs 15^th  Our Lady of Sorrow

Always remember... “Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, like poker, paralysis, - no one is born with morals.” -Mark Twain.         - “Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.” -Peter Ustinov.        -“No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb, unless the lamb is inside!” -D.H. Lawrence.                                - “I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but as a casino” Richard Ingrams

Congratulations to Rachra GAA on a  fine intermediate semi-final win. RachraGAA 3-13 Daingean 0-11