CLONMACNOIS PARISH BULLETIN AUGUST 4th 2019

SHANNONBRIDGE

Saturday, August 3rd  7:00p.m

Cemetery Mass Clonmacnois

Mon 5th Aug 10 Mass

Tues 6th  10 Mass                         Transfiguration of the Lord                                               

    Wed 7th 10 Mass St Cajetan

Thurs 8th 10 Mass/Service           St Dominic, St Mary MacKillop            

Fri 9th 10am Mass  Mass of Thanksgiving 60th Anniversary of Ordination of Fr. John Killeen [St Teresa Benedicta of the  Cross]

Sat, Aug10th 6:30p.mSt Lawrence

Tess & Tommy Corbett Anniv

CLONFANLOUGH.   

  Sunday August 4th 10:30a.m.

Shane Hynes M/M                      Sunday August 11th 10:30a.m.

Kieran & Margaret Mannion     

CLUAIN CHIARAIN Next Mass Wed. 7th August at 7.30pm

WEDDING CONGRATULATIONS to Nicola Duffy (Clonmacnois) and Darren Dowling Garrycastle)who were united in marriage on Friday 2nd August in Shannonbridge

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 July 28th  €738  Shrine  €97  Thanks.

 ROAD SAFETY PRAYER 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.

Prayer Awaiting Exams Results

Lord, I give you the anxiety I feel.

I surrender all my worries to you.

Clear my mind.

Calm my heart.

Stilly my spirit.

Relax my being.

May I be satisfied that I did my best May the path I choose in life bring me satisfaction and closer to you Amen

WEST OFFALY TRAINING - Are running some great courses over the summer – Kids Irish Speaking Camp, 12th-16th August; Kids Computer Camp in Ferbane, 12th-16th August and Mucklagh 6th-9th August. Professional Photography through Smartphone TBC and Smartphone Training / Manual Handling / Abrasive Wheel Training (weekly). Call 057 9152003 to find out more.

DIOCESAN MOVES Among the moves of local note. Fr. Aidan Ryan PP Leamonaghan to be Spiritual Director, Irish College, Rome. Fr. Michael Scanlon PP Cloghan/Banagher to retire. Fr. Patrick Kiernan (from study leave) to be PP Cloghan/Banagher, Fr. Pierre Pepper CC Cloghan/Banagher to be CC Athlone, Fr. Mark Bennett CC Athlone to be CC Ck On Shannon. Fr. Brendan O’Sullivan CC Ck on Shannon to  be PP Leamonaghan, Fr. PJ Hughes CC Leamonaghan to be PP Mullahoran, Fr. Joseph Okere  msp CC Longford to further studies and resident priest Leamonaghan.

We thank and wish Frs Ryan and Scanlon a happy and healthy retirement and welcome our new colleagues in our St. Ciaran’s Pastoral area Frs O’Sullivan, Kiernan and  Okere.

SHANNONBRIDGE TIDY TOWNS CLEAN UP Wednesdays 7p.m. All welcome

DOON / SHANNONBRIDGE GAA LOTTO  The winning numbers in last week’s lotto draw were 7, 11, 18, 28. No jackpot winner. Three match 3 winners. This week’s jackpot is €7,800 and the draw will be held in Doon on Tuesday 6th August

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                          MINISTRIES                                            

      Shannonbridge:Sat 10th August @6:30 p.m.           

Servers Group 3 Michael C, Rachael C, Paddy R, Cliodhna F, Niamh C

 Reader: Kieran O’Connor

Euch. Minister Marian McManus

 Church Care:Dympna Fitzpatrick, Dympna O’Carroll, Linda Moran

Clonfanlough:Sun 11th Augustt   @10:30am

Server Group 3, Teagan D,Seán O’S,Callie H, AilishB

Reader: Rita Molloy  Euch Min.:Declan McEvoy

Church Care–  Aug Marian Devery/Ann Kelly

HYMNS

Quietly, peacefully, may they rest in peace

Calm me, Lord, as you calmed the storm;

still me, Lord, keep me from harm.

Let all the tumult within me cease,

enfold me, Lord, in your peace.

Calm me, Lord, as you calmed the storm;

still me, Lord, keep me from harm.

Let all the tumult within me cease,

There is a Place

There's a time for remembering, a time to recall

The trials and the triumphs, the fears and the falls.  There's a time to be grateful for moments so blest, The jewels of our memory where love is our guest.

 There is gold that is gleaming in a past we once knew,  In our tears and our laughter, 'twas love brought us through.  There's a road we have travelled where sunlight has kissed,  That carries us onwards when loved ones are missed.

There is treasure in our fields, There is treasure in our skies  There is treasure in our dreaming from the soul to the eye  For where-ever we gather in the light of God's grace And for all whom we remember, there will ever be a place

There's a promise of God that is written in the stars, For all who may travel, no matter how far.

 God will be your companion, each journey you make In the shadow of loved ones, to lighten your way.

In the quiet of the evening, at the close of the day, We will rest on the journey, to the Lord we shall pray.  May we thank God for blessings, for the moments we've shared, As we seek for tomorrow, close by us you'll stay.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;When other helpers fail and comforts flee,Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;Change and decay in all around I see—O Thou who changest not, abide with me.

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies;Heav’n’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

 LOCAL CEMETERY  MASSES

Mullanakill Children’s Cemetery, Clonlyon Glebe  Mon August 5th @7pm

-Templeduff Children’s  Cemetery,  Cloniffeen Thursday , August 15th @ 6:30p.m

We ask those attending to bring a bottle of holy water so that  as a people we can ask God’s blessing on the resting places of our loved ones. Just as they blessed us by their lives -we can together as one people return that prayer to them.

Since we last gathered at     Clonmacnois on Aug 4th 2018

Thomas Kenny Ballyduff  6/8/2018

Thomas Kelly Ballinahowen9/8/2019

James Moran Ballinahowen26/8/2018

Mary Holloway Mount Temple 25/8/2018

Kathleen(Kay) Donegan S’bridge 20/9/18

James Byrnes  Kilgarvin 2/10.18

Kathleen Kelly Lakefield 6/11/2018

Jarlath Kenny Clonfad 8/11/18

Barry Quinn Shannonbridge 13/11/2018

Kieran Darcy Clonascra 4/12/18

Kathleen McNeill Bloomhill 5/12/18

*Mary L’Estrange 18/12/2018 (interred Multyfarnham)

Eileen Dunican Ferbane 3/1/19

Bernadette Devery (Endrim) 25/2/19

Seamus Whyte Athlone 27/2/19

Mary (Peg) Corrigan Banagher 8/3/19

Hubert (Louis) Darcy S’bridge 20/3/19

Paul Boland Ballinahowen 26/3/19

Margaret Kenny Ballyduff 16/4/19

Mary (Molly) Rohan Ballinahowen 16/4

Ambrose Galvin Boggah,Moate 5/6/19

Johnny Nally Shannonbridge 9/6/2019

Kathleen Turley Tuam 24/6/19

Kieran Hanniffy Shannonbridge 28/6/19

Shane Hynes  Glebe 5/7/18

William Egan Birr 9/7/2019

Annie (Birdie) Kelly 18/7/2019

18th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR

This is the only parable in the New Testament in which words are attributed to God. He calls the young man ‘fool’ for his blind pursuit of wealth and possessions, without making any effort to make himself rich in the sight of God. In our world today we never had so much wealth and possessions, and yet there was never less contentment and security. We look around to see bigger houses, higher walls, security cameras, guard dogs and electric fences. Covetousness is the road to slavery! The person who does not know what is enough will never have enough. In Kenya the practice exists of removing the clothes from the dead before burying them to remind the living that we leave the world the same way we came into it. Come to think of it, we came into the world with fists clenched but we leave it with hands wide open!

  

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