CLONMACNOIS PARISH BULLETIN JANUARY 6th 2019
ST. CIARAN SHANNONBRIDGE
Sat 5th Jan 8:00p.m. Vigil Mass Paul Kelly
Mon Jan 7th 10:00am Mass
Tues Jan 8th 10:00a.m. Mass
Wed Jan 9th 10:00a.m. Mass
Thurs Jan 10th Service
Fri Jan 11th 10:00a.m Mass
Sat Jan 12th 10:00a.m. Mass
Sat Jan 12th 8:00p.m.Vigil Mass Michael & Stephen Shrahan
Memo: Shannonbridge Church:Trial Mass time changes Jan 19th 2019 to, 6:30p.m.
ST. CIARAN CLONFANLOUGH
Sun 6th Jan Epiphany 10:30a.m. Peter & Earl Kelly & dec’d family
Sun 13th Jan Baptism of the Lord 10;30a.m. Brigid Rigney
DEATHS Brendan Loonam (Huddersfield &Carrowkeel, Funeral UK Jan 9th Stephen Hyland Rhode (& formerly Shannonbridge also Shannonbridge GAA trustee & member). Sun 4-8pm reposing at home. Funeral Monday 1pm St. Peter’s Church Rhode
LOURDES COLLECTION Our annual Collection for our May27-June 1st Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes will be taken up as a 2nd Collection after Communion in both Church next weekend Jan 12/13th .Your support welcome
OFFERTORY Dec 29/30th €650
CLUAIN CHIARAIN Mass Resumes Wed, Jan 9th 2019 @ 7:30p.m.
BAPTISM We welcomed baby Luke Nugent (Lecarrow), son of Josephine & Greg on Dec 27th into our Christian Community
God of all time, who makes all things new, we bring before you the year now ending. For life full and good, for opportunities recognised and taken, for love known and shared, we thank You. Where we have fallen short, forgive us. When we worry over what is past, free us. As we begin again and take our first few steps into the future, where nothing is safe and certain, except You, We ask for the courage of the wise men who simply went and followed a star. We ask for their wisdom, in choosing to pursue the deepest truth, not knowing where they would be led.
In the year to come, God of all time, be our help and company. Hold our hands as we journey onwards and may your dream of shalom(peace)where all will be at peace, be our guiding star. Amen
BAPTISM PREPARATION - 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 17th January from 8pm to 9pm. Subsequent pre-baptism meetings are scheduled for Thursday 14th February and Thursday 14th March. Parents are asked to contact their local priest about attendance at these meetings.
GODS’ WORD 2019 Available from Sacristy./Fr. Tom. The daily Mass readings with a short reflection. Cost price €6 A gift of his Word to accompany in the New Year.
SUNDAY READINGS 2019 is now freely available to parish Readers. If others would like to get a copy, we’d appreciate €5.00.
PARISH CALENDARS are in the Church porches and you are welcome to take a copy home
Next Sunday (Jan 13th) is the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. I invite all those who had babies baptised during 2018 to come with their child to Mass in Shannonbridge or Clonfanlough next weekend to give thanks to God for the gift of their child & to join in the blessings of this special feast
“New Year’s Day
1) if you borrow on New Year’s Day you will borrow every day in the year.
2) if you cry on New Year’s Day you’ll be crying the rest of the year.
3) If you throw out ashes on New Year’s Day you will be throwing out your luck.
4) If you get money on New Year’s Day you’ll be lucky.
5) If the Shannon writers on New Year’s Eve we will have a deer year.
6) If you tell a lie or New Year’s Day you’ll keep telling lies all the year.
7) Some people will not throw out ashes on New Year’s Day or Handsel Monday for fear they would throw away their luck.
8) If a black haired man or any man comes into the house first or New Year’s Day you will have luck. A woman or a hen to come in first will bring bad luck. 9) Never throw out anything like water or ashes on new years day until you get something in first.
10) On New Year’s (Day) Eve the man of the house often walks out and stays out until the clock strikes 12 then he comes in with an armful of turf to bring in the good luck. 11) If a black cat comes in first and New Year’s Day it is also lucky
12) On the first Monday of every year people say it is unlucky to give away money or to put out the ashes.
1) if you borrow on New Year’s Day you will borrow every day in the year.
2) if you cry on New Year’s Day you’ll be crying the rest of the year.
3) If you throw out ashes on New Year’s Day you will be throwing out your luck.
4) If you get money on New Year’s Day you’ll be lucky.
5) If the Shannon writers on New Year’s Eve we will have a deer year.
6) If you tell a lie or New Year’s Day you’ll keep telling lies all the year.
7) Some people will not throw out ashes on New Year’s Day or Handsel Monday for fear they would throw away their luck.
8) If a black haired man or any man comes into the house first or New Year’s Day you will have luck. A woman or a hen to come in first will bring bad luck. 9) Never throw out anything like water or ashes on new years day until you get something in first.
10) On New Year’s (Day) Eve the man of the house often walks out and stays out until the clock strikes 12 then he comes in with an armful of turf to bring in the good luck. 11) If a black cat comes in first and New Year’s Day it is also lucky
12) On the first Monday of every year people say it is unlucky to give away money or to put out the ashes.
The word epiphany means revelation. Jesus is revealed to the ‘Three Wise Men’, Balthazar, Caspar and Melchior, and through them, to all the nations of the earth. He came for all; He cares for all. The Wise Men must have been very single-minded. We are told in the Gospel that they only saw the star at the beginning of their journey, and near the end. It follows, that most of their searching was done in darkness, but they persevered, and, in the end, their reward was great. Then, having encountered the infant Jesus in the stable, they returned to their own country ‘by a different way’. What this really means is that they were changed forever by their encounter, and returned home, with a new sense of hope, joy and purpose. Like the Wise Men, we have hitched our wagon to the star of Bethlehem. The star may not always be visible, but it is always there. Their journey is our journey. Their search is our search. In the year ahead may we, like them, seek Him, find Him, and be changed by Him. If we seek Him in small things, we shall find Him in all things.
Shannonbridge:Sat 12th Jan @8p.m.
Servr:Grp4:Emily, Ruth, Grace F
Reader: Ffionn Anderson
Euch. Minister Dympna Fitzpatrick
Church Care:Martha Murphy, Marie McManus
Clonfanlough:Sun 13th Jan @10:30am
Server Gr.3 Roisin, Teagan D.
Reader: Mary Kelly
Euch Min.:Anne Rohan
Ch Care–Jan: Mary Guinan, Anne Guinan
SR. MAURA MORAN Sadly we will bid farewell to Sr. Maura Moran OSU (Ard Chiarain) who after 21 years here begins a new phase of her life in Sligo Jan 21st. She will be at our Party on Jan 21st in Shannonbridge. You may wish to contact her personally, but if you’d like to be part of a presentation being planned– you can leave contributions to Tom Cox, Eileen Quinn, Ann Corbett,
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