CLONMACNOIS PARISH NEWSLETTER NOV 6TH 2016

                                                                                                             

ST. CIARAN’S CHURCH, SHANNONBRIDGE                                          

                          ST. CIARAN’S CHURCH, CLONFANLOUGH                                                                     

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

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

www.shannonbridge.com

Masses for November 5/6th

Sat 5th 8:00p.m. Kieran Kenny (1st A)

Sun 6th 10:30a.m. Devery family (Clonlyon) & Sonny & Nancy Egan (Clongowney)

Masses for November 12th/13th

Sat 12th 8p.m.        Michael Anderson (3rd Anniv)

Sun 13th 10:30a.m. Brigid McEvoy

Weekday Masses

[Rosary at 9:45a.m. Shannonbridge]Mon 7th –Fri 11th 10:00a.m.

Sat 10a.m. Thomas Rocke (Anniv.)

Tues 8th 7p.m. Clonfanlough

 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.

Mass in Cluain Chiarain Clonmacnois  Wednesday (9th Nov)  at 7:30p.m.

Offertory Oct 29th/30th  €805

October Monthly Collection” €210

Mission Sunday €450 (to date)

Shrine (Candles) €200

November Dues and November Monthly Collection Envelope  falls this weekend (Nov 5/6th). Thank you for your generosity

 TWO PRAYER IDEAS

In a touching suggestion after the death of his father Anthony “Axel” Foley, his son (Tony aged 11) suggested that people go to mass over the next 8 Sundays, light a candle, photograph it and post to the facebook page dubbed #8masses4no8   and “tag”  8 Facebook friends.  It was a touching idea from a son for his father.  Tony was inspired by what he experienced in Thomond Park  and came up with the idea of getting people to go to Mass to pray for deceased family or friends, including his father, in the run up to Christmas,”

At the same time, with the Year of Mercy due to end on Nov. 20th Archbishop Martin of Armagh has suggested  a

Novena for Mercy in the Family.    Beginning about 6pm  on Friday 11th November & ending on Sunday 20th November. Using this prayer  with a lit candle.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Holy Family of Nazareth, bless our family.

Keep anger and violence far from our door. May our home be a place of love, mercy and forgiveness. Share our moments of happiness with us. Whenever things are difficult, help us to overcome together the problems that come our way.

Be with families in Ireland and around the world who are homeless or suffering.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph come into our home and our hearts and stay with us always. Amen.

Then use Holy Water (available in Church), bless each person on forehead present & end with the Our Father.

                  UPCOMING CHURCH ROSTERS                                                                 

Shannonbridge:    12th Nov 2016 8p.m.

Altar Servers: Group 3, Kate, Paddy & Adam

Reader: Eileen Quinn

 Eucharistic Minister: Marian McManus

Church Cleaners Shannonbridge (weekly)

 Kathleen Price, Catherine Curley, Patricia Anderson.

Clonfanlough:-  Sun 13th Nov 2016 10:30a.m.            

Altar Servers: Group 2 Jane E., Tadgh T., Roisin D.

Reader: Alan/Leanne Devery

 Minister of the Eucharist: Anne Rohan

Monthly Cleaning Rota  (November)

Dorothy Darcy and Joey Rigney

NOVEMBER REMEMBRANCE A book is in each Church for you to write names of deceased loved ones in & remembered at our Masses 

CHRISTMAS  PARTIES Note it down!

Shannonbridge :  Sunday, Dec 4th 1p.m.(please note change of date to previously advertised one)

Clonfanlough December 11th  1p.m. onwards

SAINTS OF THE WEEK  Tues  8th Bl John Duns Scotus; Wed 9th Dedication of Lateran Basilica, Thurs 10th St. Leo the Great, Fri 11th St. Martin of Tours, Sat 12th St. Josaphat

Back to School Quotes

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ~Sydney J. Harris

“Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.” ~William Butler Yeats

PARISH CATECHIST & PERMANENT

DIACONATE  Copies of Bishop Francis’s letter on these two new  ministries are available at the Porch

 The Word of God this Sunday, the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, calls us to resist the temptation to look at reality according to the dim lights of the fallen world and the fractured culture around us. God’s perspective on things is the only true and real reality. Everything else is a cheap illusion and is unworthy of us.

In the first reading from the first book of Maccabees we hear that the pressure to conform to this world rather than to the reality of God’s kingdom has always been with us, and has always been brutal and relentless.

In the Gospel we hear how these twisted voices are brazen enough even to presume to question God made flesh in the person of Jesus!

In contrast to shallowness and lies, St. Paul - in the second letter to the Thessalonians - offers a loftier, brighter, and holier perspective on things which is the pure truth of everything.

The love and grace of God is our best and our everlasting protection from lies that would grind us into the ground.

Asking Our Blessed Lady to pray for our safety on the roads

The new bishop of Killaloe, Fintan Monahan, has recently suggested that drivers and passengers might develop a habit of pausing to reflect and to pray each time we set off to use our roads. As well as worshipfully praising God for the awesome gift of human life, such a habit will also help our whole culture to reverence every human life more deeply.

Holy Mother, hear our prayer, Keep us in your loving care, Whatever the perils of the way, Let us not add to them this day. So to our caution and attention, We add a prayer for your protection, To beg God’s blessing on this car, To travel safely near and far. Amen.