CLONMACNOIS Parish Newsletter April 5th 2020
Trócaire Lenten Campaign On the final week of our Lenten Journey of helping the poor. We continue to reach out to the poor in our Trócaire Lenten Campaign. When it is safe to do, we will organise the collection of our Trócaire boxes. We can continue to give and share. Every cent and euro do make a difference!
CHURCH COLLECTIONS - Just hold on to envelopes for moment– some have dropped in conributions. Thank you. I will continue to pray with and for you all each day.
COCOONED: To all over 70’s who are cocooned and those like me (doctors orders) confined at present, we wish them to know they are not alone and isolated. They are remembered in a special way in our prayers and we pray it will not be too long until they & I are “uncocooned”.
CONFIRMATION CLASS 2020: Sunday, March 21st was a sunny day and should have been our Parish Confirmation Day. We have not received a new date understandably. At our Masses on Saturday and Sunday, we remember the young boys and girls who were to be confirmed, their parents, sponsors and teachers. We light a candle to invoke the Holy Spirit to fill the young boys and girls with Faith, enthusiasm, prayer and devotion to the Eucharist.
Mass Broadcasts
UWEBCAM MASS will be available by webcam at St. Mel’s Cathedral www.longfordparish.com each day— 8am, 10am,(Mon-Wed) Thurs 7.30pm Fri 3pm Sat10pm
ALSO www.cloghanbanagherparish.ie livestream & Radio 106.6FM Sat 4th @ 6.30pm Mon 6th 9:30am Holy Thursday 6:30pm Good Friday 3pm Passion 6:30pm Stations
Holy Saturday 6:30pm Easter Sunday 9:30am.
URTE Television will air Masses every weekday at 10.30am from St. Eunan’s and St. Columba’s Cathedral, Letterkenny on RTE News Now which can be accessed on Saorview (channel 21), Sky (521), Virgin Media (200), Eir (517).
FERBANE CHURCH 106.5FMMon-Wed 10a.m Thur 7/Fri 3/Sat 7 ATHLONE 88.4FM 9:30-Wed 9:30am , Sunday 11am
URADIO MARIA IRELAND Daily Mass at 10a.m. on television on Saorview 210. Listen via TV on Saorview
Now that the day has come to an end,
I thank you Lord for family and friends
For all that has happened both the good and the bad. For the life and the laughter, for the tearful and sad. Looking back on the day help me to see, the ways in which you've walked with me Thank you Lord for the stillness of night,
Guide family and friends to morning light
For those who won't make it to greet a new day. May they go gently, angels guiding the way For those sick or in pain or struggling to cope, Draw close to the Lord and fill them with hope May we sleep soundly with help from above And awaken with gusto to be agents of love.Amen
John O’Donohue
This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart.
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light
If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning
A BEAUTIFUL IDEA FOR PALM SUNDAY This weekend, join us in displaying in your home (window/door) a branch to celebrate Palm Sunday. It could be any green branch you can get. This would help, despite the social distancing, to be connected as we enter into the Holiest of Weeks. We may be physically isolate, but not separated. We are united as the body of Christ. We are the Church.
- The tradition of Spiritual Communion, whereby those who cannot directly receive the Eucharist, can by their desire to receive it, also gain its benefits. Although unable to receive the Eucharist in person we are not separate from it, but drawn into a deeper appreciation and desire for its grace, which continue to be poured out for each of us. My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You have already come, and unite myself entirely to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
The word holy means ‘set apart’. Holy Week stands apart from every other week on the Christian calendar. The first Holy Week in Jerusalem changed the world, and it continues to change our lives. It is a week which takes us to the centre of who we are. This year our solemn celebrations will be different: no Chrism Mass, no processions, no washing of the feet, no prayer around the Cross, no Easter confessions, no Paschal Fire, no Easter water, no Dawn Mass, no congregations. Yet the message of these days will not be silenced, but will ring out around the world, with greater force and relevance than ever. On Holy Thursday we will give thanks for the precious gifts of Eucharist and Priesthood; on Good Friday we will celebrate the ‘Triumph of Failure’, which was the Triumph of Love; on Holy Saturday we will rejoice again at the news that the grave will not be our final address. We will be reassured that we are loved, and are not alone. God is in our loss; God is in our fear; God is in our pain; God will see us through. Back in the fourteenth century Europe was being ravished by the notorious Black Death pandemic, together with several bloody wars and great upheaval in the Church, with three men claiming to be Pope. Yet in the midst of all this turmoil and turbulence the gentle English mystic Julian of Norwich was unshakeable in her trust in God when she uttered the inspiring words that have consoled people in times of testing down the centuries: ‘all shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well’. It’s really another version of the joyous Easter proclamation: ‘Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again’. We need to hear it and we will.
Palm Sunday Mass of Palm Sunday 11am-11.50am RTE 1 TV, 11am—11.50am RTE radio 1 extra, LW 252 digital radio
Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper 4.40pm RTE 1 TV 7pm RTE 1 radio
Good Friday Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday 3-4pm RTE 1 TV, 3-4pm RTE 1 radio extra, LW 252 digital radio
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass 10-11pm RTE 2 TV 10-11pm RTE radio 1 extra, LW 252 digital radio
PARISH HOLY WEEK CEREMONIES (Streamed on Facebook live “Parish of Clonmacnois” and “Tom Cox” & recorded there & on www.youtube.com ( Clonmacnois Parish)
Sat 4th April 7p.m. Sun 5th April 10:30a.m.
Mon 6th/Tues 7th / Wed 8th 10a.m.
Holy Thursday 9th April 7p.m.
Good FridayApril 10th 12 Noon Stations(from HighSt) 7pm. Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday
Holy Saturday 7p.m. Easter Vigil
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