CLONMACNOIS PARISH BULLETIN AUGUST 11TH 2019
SHANNONBRIDGE
Sat, Aug10th 6:30p.m Tess & Tommy Corbett Anniv
Mon 12th 10am. (No Mass owing to 12 Funeral) St. Attracta St . Muredach
Tues 13th 10a.m. Mass St. Fachtna, Ss Pontian, Pope and Hippolytus
Wed 14th 10a.m. Mass St. Maximilian Kolbe
Thursday 15th August
Assumption of the BVM
6:30p.m. (Wed.) S’bridge
10:30a.m. Clonfanlough
6:30p.m. Templeduff Children’s Cemetery, Cloniffeen
Fri 16th 10a.m. Mass St. Stephen of Hungary
Sat Aug 17th 6:30p..m. Our Lady of Knock
CLONFANLOUGH.
Sunday August 11th 10:30a.m.
Kieran & Margaret Egan
Mon August 12th 12 Noon Requiem Mass John (Sean) Rohan (Back Rd., Clonfanlough)
Sunday August 18th 10:30am.
10:30am. John & Agnes O’Shea
CLUAIN CHIARAIN No Mass this week (14th) Next Mass Wed. 21st August at 7.30pm
BAPTISM PREPARATION Next parents meeting in our pastoral area will be in the Parochial House, Ballinahowen, on Wed. 14th August 8-9p.m. COLLECTIONS Offertory Aug 3-4th €1764 Shrine €61
ANNUAL PATTERN DAY AT CLONMACNOIS: Takes place on Sunday 8th September beginning at 2.45pm.
YOUTH 2000 SUMMER FESTIVAL - Aug 15th-18th Clongowes Wood College, Kildare. Ages 16-35. Donation only, transport arranged. See www.youth2000.ie for details
DOON / SHANNONBRIDGE GAA LOTTO The winning numbers in last week’s lotto draw were 11, 17, 19, 24. No jackpot winner. Three match 3 winners. This week’s jackpot is €8,000 and the draw will be held in Shannonbridge on Monday 12th August
KNOC K DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE will take place on Sunday 1st September this year. It is planned that a Bus will travel from the Parish as usual. Those interested should give their names to Anne Rohan (086) 8142714 or Darran Finnerty (086) 8776273 as soon as possible. Costs have been provisionally set at €32 per person which as usual includes a light breakfast and an evening meal.
KNOC K DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE will take place on Sunday 1st September this year. It is planned that a Bus will travel from the Parish as usual. Those interested should give their names to Anne Rohan (086) 8142714 or Darran Finnerty (086) 8776273 as soon as possible. Costs have been provisionally set at €32 per person which as usual includes a light breakfast and an evening meal.
CLONMACNOIS PRAYER VIGIL in Cluain Chiaráin Prayer Centre on Friday 16th August. Mass at 9pm. Adoration and prayers follow until 2.10am. All welcome. Enquiries to Dave 085- 7746763.
BUS TO KNOCK FOR THE ANNUAL NOVENA - Wed. 14th, Mon. 19th, Wed. 21st August, leaving Belmont at 4.30pm, Banagher 4.45pm, Cloghan 4.55pm, Ferbane 5pm, Doon 5.10pm. For further details call 087 2822522.
COUNTRY JAMBOREE - In Cloghan Sportsfield on Sunday 25th August from 2-6pm. Covered marquee and dance floor. BYOB and food. Tickts €15. All welcome
National Novena to Our Lady of Knock
Begins in Knock Shrine with two sessions daily in the Basilica at 3pm & 8pm; Wednesday 14th August to Thursday 22nd August. Seminars at 12 noon each day. John Bruton, Most Rev Rino Fisichella (Rome), Olive Foley, Bishop Alan Mc Guckian, Dr. John
Feehan, Bishop Kevin Doran, Msgr John Armitage, Carole Coleman, Rev Trevor Sargent,Nollaig O’Muraile, Tom Neary, Archbishop Michael Neary, Fr. Peter Mc Verry
Novena Speakers & Seminars
Wed 14th Aug Speaker :John Bruton
Theme : Faith, Future and Europe
Thurs 15th Aug Speaker : Most Rev. Rino Fisichella, Rome Theme : Mary in the Life of the Church
Fri 16th Aug Speaker : Olive Foley Theme : Family & Faith
Sat 17th Aug Speaker(1) :Most Rev. Alan Mc Guckian, Bishop of Raphoe Theme What Knock means to me Speaker(2):Dr. John Feehan Theme : God in Creation– learning to read the Other Book of Revelation
Sun18th Aug Family day at Knock Shrine Speaker(1) : Most Rev. Kevin Doran, Bishop of Elphin
Theme : A joy that lies ahead of us
Speaker(2) : Msgr. John Armitage, Rector at our
Lady’s Shrine Walsingham, UK Mary and the reality of family life
Mon 19th Aug 12noon Seminar : Knock Youth Ministry \Theme : New Shoots Speaker : Carole Coleman
Theme : Motherhood , media and me
Tues 20th Aug 12noon Speaker : Rev. Trevor Sargent Theme : Faith in Action
Wed 21st Aug 12noon 140th Anniversary of the Apparition Speakers : Nollaig ó Muraíle and Tom Neary
Theme : Place, People and the Knock Apparition
Speaker: Most Rev. Michael Neary, Archbishop of
Tuam Theme : The message of the Knock Apparition then and now.
Special events on 21st August
12noon Unveiling of the historic model of Knock Village in 1879 at Rest and Centre
3pm Unveiling of the new Processional Statue of Our
Lady of Knock during Mass
7pm Witnesses’ Walk ‘Meeting Heaven at harvest
time.’
Thurs 22nd Aug Speaker : Fr. Peter Mc Verry
Theme : Following the dream of Jesus
Seminars : 12noon daily Novena : 3pm and 8pm daily Anointing of the sick : 2pm daily
Further details from www.knockshrine.ie
MISSION APPEAL –Fr. Terry Smith (Spiritan also known as “ The Holy Ghost Missionaries”) are visiting our Diocese this year. He will speak at both Masses in our Parish next weekend (August 17th/118h).
to all who helped with the organising of the prayers in Clonmacnois Cemetery, PPC members,,Collectors, sacristans, rosary leaders, for all who helped with off road parking (Pat Dillon/Tom Moore) by providing fields and those who stewarded, Johnny Duffy for helping with amplification, Gussy Claffey our cemetery caretaker, the OPW for facilitating us again with the use of this place for our prayer. To the Rural Social Scheme or RSS as we call it participants (John Price/Pat Anderson and Kathleen Norton/John Murphy who coordinates) who do so much to keep the cemetery in top order. This year we had 3 small clean up gatherings with 3 trailers brought away of refuse, discarded plastic pots, Christmas wreaths and so forth. This cemetery is unique in that something like 150,000 people visit Clonmacnois annually and many walk through the Cemetery on the Pilgrim Road to and from the Nuns Church. I commend the efforts of everybody who have their plots so well tended and to the “neighbourly eye” many of you cast on graves of those who may not have any relative to tend to them. We also encourage everybody to bring home all waste from the cemetery whenever you visit – dumping is offensive to the living and disrespectful to the dead
Life for so many of us is full of loose ends. There are things undone, things half done, things put off and things not attempted. No one should ever lightly leave undone a task that should have been finished before night falls. The Gospel today appeals to us not to be caught unawares. The Master could knock on our door at any moment. We are but stewards of what He has given us, not owners. Everything we have is on loan from Him, and at the end we will be required to account for our stewardship, whether we have been watchful or wasteful. The best preparation for the future, then, is a well-lived present. Consequently, death will find us at peace with Him, with our world and with ourselves. When the fateful moment arrives it will be ‘graduation day’ not ‘examination day’. ‘The one who lives life fully is prepared to die at any time’. (Mark Twain)
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