CLONMACNOIS PARISH BULLETIN JANUARY 7th 2018
Fr. Tom Cox Adm. (Adm) Tel. 090 9674125/ 086-8319500 Email: thomascox@eircom.net
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I am very grateful to all who donate and I’d just like to remind you that contributing through the envelope system has the extra benefit for the parish because the parish, as a charitable institution, can reclaim tax on your contributions, provided your total for the year reaches €250 or more. The envelope system is necessary for a paper trail as evidence that you have contributed.
If you’re attending Church in Moore,Cloonfad, Leamonaghan, Ferbane parish– your envelope is kindly returned by those parishes... Thank you for your continued support.
OFFERTORY Dec 31st €840
CHRISTMAS DUES Thank You For Your Christmas Dues Parish Contributions! Sincerest thanks to everyone for the generous donations individuals, households have made to the current parish Christmas Dues collection. If you prefer to not use the Parish envelope, simply write “Dues” on an envelope & drop it in. Buíochas mór daoibh go léir!
JANUARY MONTHLY ENVELOPE falls due today. Thank you for your generosity.
MARRIAGE - Congratulations to Emma Anderson and David Larkin who were recently married.
BAPTISMS - We welcome into our Christian Community Hollie Dowling and Daimhin Claffey
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CALENDARS Parish Calendars for 2018 are available at all churches. Our thanks to the distributors of Offertory Boxes, Cards & Calendars in the last few weeks.
BAPTISM - The next meeting for parents in our pastoral area who have a child for baptism will be held in the Parochial House in Ballinahown on Thursday 18th January & after that Thursday 15th February. Please contact me in advance.
Fri 5th 8:00p.m. Vigil of Epiphany
Sat 6th Jan 8p.m. Vigil of Sun Michael & Stephen Shrahan
Mon 8th 10a.m. Mass
Tues 9th 10a..m Communion Service
Wed 10th 10a.m. Mass
Thurs 11th 10a.m. Mass
Fri 12th 10a.m. Mass
Sat 13th 12 Noon Peadar Allen (2nd A)
Sat 13th 8p.m. Tess & Tommy Corbett
[2nd Collection after Communion for Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes Fund]
ST. CIARAN’S, CLONFANLOUGH
Sat 6th 2018 @10:30a.m. Epiphany
Sun 7th Jan 2018 10:30a.m. Peter & Earl Kelly
Sun 14th 10:30a.m. Bridget Rigney (Anniv) [Do This In Memory Mass with First Communicants]
[2nd Collection after Communion for Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes Fund]
CLUAIN CHIARAIN mass Wed, Jan 10th @7:30pa.m.
MINISTRIES
Shannonbridge: Sat 13th Jan 2018@8p.m.
Altar Servers: Group 1 Matthew Emily & Ruth
Reader: Dympna O’Carroll
Euch. Minister: Marian McManus
Church Cleaners Shannonbridge (weekly) Jacinta Kelly, Mary Killeen, Ann Keena
Clonfanlough:Sun 14th Jan ‘18 @ 10:30
Altar Servers:Group 2 TadghT, CharlieG
Reader: Bridie Coughlan
Min. of Eucharist: Anne Rohan
Monthly Cleaning Rota (Jan) Mary Guinan,Anne Guinan
Extraordinary General Meeting of Shannonbridge GAA on Sunday 7th January @5p.m. in GAA Clubhouse
PILATES CLASS returns Monday 8th at 11a.m. €8 per class Shannonbridge Hall
EXERCISE CLASS resumes Tues 9th @ 8p.m. Shannonbridge Hall
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL Meeting Wednesday 10th Jan 2018 at 7p.m.
WORLD DAY OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES is celebrated next Sunday. We extend a warm welcome to all who have come to make their homes among us in Ireland.
LOURDES COLLECTION - Our Annual Collection to assist with our Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will be taken up as a second collection after Communion in all Churches of the Parish on next weekend 13th/14th January. Your generous support would be very much appreciated
GENESIS IN REVERSE I was in Galway during Storm Eleanor and you could only be struck. by the power of nature. Things are changing. The precarious condition of our environment has to be taken seriously. Pope Francis’ encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ warns that we are approaching ‘tipping-point’. If we fail to act now, the damage will be irreparable An Anglican clergyman, Colin Morris, told this cautionary tale. ‘Genesis in Reverse’ he called it. If one were to write a bible for the 21st century, he said, we would start with the story of how man dismantled the world, rather than how God created it. And it might run like this: “In the end, mankind systematically demolished the home God had given them even though they had nowhere else to go. They plundered the earth, slaughtered one another, and their brothers and sisters of the animal kingdom. And this was the seventh day from the end. They polluted the clear air with the fumes of their machines, poisoned the sea with their garbage and turned rivers into foaming torrents of chemical waste, and began ever so slowly to choke themselves to death. And this was the sixth day from the end. They stifled all truth that wasn’t their truth and scoffed at the warnings of the prophets and were deaf to the ominous sounds of the earth in torment. Arrogance and self-righteousness drowned out wisdom and humility. And this was the fifth day from the end. And they said the strong are entitled to most of what's going and the weak can have the rest. But the more they had to lose, the more they feared those who had nothing to lose, so they built ever bigger walls and larger armies to protect their self-interest. And this was the fourth day from the end. They slept uneasily and awoke afraid and set to work to create the ultimate weapon. Then they said, ‘Now we feel really safe!’ But their enemies didn’t feel safe, so they too created an ultimate weapon, and the whole world lived under the shadow of extinction and called it peace. And this was the third day from the end. Then having proved by their cleverness that they could make anything, they said, now let us make God in our own image, let us gaze into a mirror and worship the one we see there. And this was the second day from the end. And they were mesmerised by the gleaming products of their ingenuity, and they cried ‘Bigger! Faster! Stronger! Richer! Louder! More!’ And they became obsessed with a desire nothing could satisfy. And this was the day before the end. Then there was chaos and uproar, and when the din subsided, human life had vanished. And the ravished earth rested on the seventh day. Then God broke the silence. ‘Back to the drawing board,’ he said sadly.”
James Niall Donaghy,
Patrick Alphonsus Shrahan, Ciarán Peter Ascough,
Daniel Yoshi Morimoto,
Robert Thomas Stanley,
Maeve Molloy,
Harlyn Kate Hennessy
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