CLONMACNOIS PARISH BULLETIN FEBRUARY 16th 2020
SHANNONBRIDGE
-Sat 15th 7p.m. (1) Seamus Grennan M/M (2) Tommy & son Simon & Geraldine McManus
Mon 17th 10pm Mass St. Fintan
Tues 18th 10am Mass
Wed 19th 10am Mass
Thurs 20th 10am Service
Fri 21st 10am Mass St. Peter Damian
Sat 22nd 7:00p.m. Vigil Mass Allan Kelly
CLONFANLOUGH.
Sunday February 16th 10:30a.m.
Missa Pro Populo (Do This In Memory Group)
Sunday 23rd February 10:30a.m. Frances Kelly (Memorial Mass) late of Carrowkeel, died in USA
CLUAIN CHIARAIN Wed 19th February 7.30pm
COLLECTIONS: Offertory Feb 9th €649 Shrine €86
SHANNONBRIDGE FITNESS CLASSES Tuesday at 8.15pm classes will run for 45 mins and cost €5,
SHANNONBRIDGE YOGA CLASSES ENROLLING Please contact Liz if interested 087 2410587
DEATH - Please pray for the soul of Brendan Doorey Drumcondra/Dunmore (brother of Kathleen Norton-Tullabeg) Mick Brazil (Priory Vw. Ferbane) brother of Paddy Brazil-Clongowney). May they rest in peace.
WORDS TO THE WISE
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams (John Barrymore)
-Do not dwell in the past, Do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment (Buddha)
-The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. (Ayn Rand)
-What soup is to the body, laughter is to the soul (Yiddish Proverb)
-A kis is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. (Ingrid Bergman)
-Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin)
-I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by (Douglas Adams)
-Be yourself; everyone else is already taken (Oscar Wilde)
CHURCH GATE COLLECTION
In aid of Oesophageal Cancer Fund on Sunday 23rd.
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SHANNONBRIDGE LIBRARY open Thursday 7-9 Health Centre
MATCH PASSES for Senior Citizens if anyone is interested in receiving a free pass to all Offaly matches… please contact Niamh Ryan Egan for details 086 332 0017
Hymns
Be still for the presence of the Lord The Holy One is here /Come bow before Him now / With reverence and fear / In Him no sin is found / We stand on holy ground / Be still for the presence of the Lord / The Holy One is here
I Will Be The Vine I will be the vine and you will be the branches; All you who live in me will never, never die I will be the sign.
I will offer many choices; So live, oh live in me and you shall have new life
Give Me Joy Give me joy in my heart, Keep me praising, Give me joy in my heart, I pray. Give me joy in my heart, deep me praising. Keep me praising „till the break of day. Sing hosanna, sing hosanna, Sing hosanna to the King of kings! Sing hosanna, sing hosanna, Sing hosanna to the King./ Give me peace in my heart keep me resting …….
Give me love in my heart keep me serving ………
SPRING STATIONS Station Mass Areas (1)Chapel St & Hill, (2)Ballyhearth, (3)Clongowney, (4)Carrowkeel, (5)Clonfanlough & Lakefield (6) Clonmacnois & Tullabeg (7)Clonlyon booked 3/4/2020 (8) Glebe (9)Aughincabe/Clerhane/Creevagh (10)Shannonbridge (11) St. Kieran’s Park, (12)Garrymore, Woodbank, Charlestown, Lecarrow, Blackwater (12) Clondelara
APOSTOLIC WORK - Coffee Morning on Tuesday 18th February in St. Joseph’s Convent after morning Mass. Donations of cakes, buns etc. most welcome. Your support would be much appreciated. We would appreciate any used stamps you may have. These can be left into Ferbane Convent.
CLONMACNOIS PRAYER VIGIL in Cluain Chiarán Prayer Centre on Friday 21st Feb. Mass at 9pm. Adoration, prayers, and refreshments follow until 2.15am. Contact Dave 085-7746763
ATHLONE LITTLE THEATRE heads back to the 1960s for the first production of 2020, a hilarious comedy where misunderstanding and confusion reigns in Alan Ayckbourn's 'Relatively Speaking' directed by Joe MacCarrick, running from February 21 to 28 next in Athlone Little Theatre, St Mary's Place, Athlone.
Ardagh & Clonmacnois Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2020 is from 29th May—03 June—five nights. Fully inclusive €749, Contact Joe Wlash Tours 143 Lower Baggot St, Dublin 2. Tel. 012410812 or 012410811. Pilgrimage Director Rt. Rev. Mons. Bernard Noonan, Moate, Co. Westmeath. 090- 6481180. Director for Sick/Assisted Pilgrims: Rev. Michael Scanlon, Cloghan, Co Offaly. 0906457122.
BAPTISM MEETING - For all parents of new children preparing for baptism will take place on Thursday 20th February at 8pm in the Granary, Boher.
PILGRIMAGE TO MEDJUGORJE: 15th - 22nd July. Fly direct from Dublin to Mostar (30 minutes from Medjugorje). 7 night pilgrimage €665. Contact Aodh (087) 2072982 or Carmel Horan (087) 2072996 for information. Accompanied by Fr. Frank Guinan.
ANAM CARA - The organisation that supports bereaved parents, is holding a Bereavement Information Evening on Tuesday 25th February at 7.15pm in the Mullingar Park Hotel, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. This is a FREE EVENT and open to all bereaved parents. As Anam Cara will need to confirm numbers for
teas, coffees, etc. please RSVP to info@anamcara.ie before Monday 24th February or call 085 2888 88
SOCIAL DANCE - Classes continue in High Street Hall on Wednesday 19th February at 8pm. Adm. €8. Refreshments served. All welcome.
HIGH STREET/BELMONT WOMEN’S GROUP - Monday 17th February: Cycle of Healing with Ann Marie, Natural Stuff, Tullamore. Four different steps to maintain good cleaning e.g. Herbal products and spices. High Street Hall, 8pm. All welcome.
DOON / SHANNONBRIDGE GAA LOTTO The winning numbers in last week’s lotto draw were 3, 5, 7, 27. No jackpot winner. Nine match 3 winners. This week’s jackpot is €13,600 and the draw will be held in Doon on Mon. 17th Feb
PARISH CONFIRMATION PROGRAMME 2020
Wednesday, February 19th meeting with parents and children at 8p.m. in Clonmacnois N.S. (Speaker JimWindsor Glynn) , Children will be in separate meeting with leaders.
Thursday, February 27th Confirmation Group away day to St. Mel’s Cathedral, Longford
Wed. March 4th at 8p.m. in Clonmacnois N.S. for Children only (You Shall be My Witnesses Program)
MINISTRIES
Shanonbridge:Sat 22nd Feb @7:00 p.m.
Servr Grp 2Aoife F, Harry,Luke,EllieNoah O’D Reader: Christina Fallon/Lauren Claffey Euch .Min. Martha Murphy Ch Care Anne Ryan, Lena Turley, Maureen Mitchell COUNTERS Feb: Shannonbridge
Clonfanlough:Sun 23rd Feb @10:30am
Server Grp 1 Rory D, Grace D, Kate McC Reader: Della Fitzgerald Euch Min.Ann Guinan
Church Care– Feb Bridie Coughlan
SIXTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
‘I have not come to abolish the Law but to complete it’
Jesus never tried to destroy the past. He built on it. When the old Law, the Law of Moses was overly concerned with externals, keeping the rules, Jesus asks us to go deeper. For instance, the Law says ‘don’t do anything wrong’; Jesus says ‘don’t even desire to do something evil’. The Law says ‘do not kill’; Jesus says ‘do not even be angry’. The Law says ‘’don’t commit adultery’; Jesus says ‘don’t even consider it’. Jesus shows us, then, that the future builds on the foundation of the past. The past is really the gateway to the future. There is a tendency today to denigrate everything associated with the past and glorify the ‘enlightenment’ of the present. Much wiser to acknowledge that the past is where we learn the lesson; the future is where we apply it. Winston Churchill was right, I believe, when he remarked after the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940: ‘If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future’
.Springtime Prayer
“ Nothing is so beautiful as Spring, when weeds, in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush”
Spring light in the morning brings with it the hints of hope , and promise of Summer. So many green shoots and the buds of new life we can so easily miss. The birds sing the songs of surprise that Winter has removed its grey coat. The little lambs dance in meadows not yet green in grass. The sunlight of day stretches the evening to make a mirror of the lake. The birds and the bulbs, the lambs and the light are a prayer of hope, Spring hope.
Loving God of Springtime Surprise us with the joy of hope Melt our Winter hearts with soft breaths of Springtime. Allow the Holy Spirit of Jesus to fuel bright our imagination with dance, colour and song. Let us be mindful, joyful and thankful to our Springtime God of life and love. Amen.
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