Clonmacnois Parish
February 21st 2021
First Sunday of Lent
Fr. Tom Cox (Adm) Tel. 090 9674125/ 0868319500
Email: clonmacnoiseparish@gmail.com
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ALL MASSES ONLINE—LEVEL 5
Sat. 20th Feb. 7pm. Vigil 1st Sun. of Lent
Sun. 21st Feb 10:30am 1st Sun. of Lent James Harrington anniv & Dec’d family
Mon Feb. 22nd 10am Mass Chair of St Peter This ancient feast relates to an early Roman custom at this time of the year of remembering the ancestors of the family. The feast celebrates St Peter as Bishop of Rome, head of the diocese.
Tues Feb. 23rd 10am Mass St Polycarp He was bishop Smyrna, present day Turkey. Born around the year 69, he was a disciple of St John the Apostle.
Thurs Feb 25th 10am Mass
Fri Feb 26th 10am Mass
Sat. 27th Feb. 7pm. Vigil 2nd Sun. of Lent
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RECENT DEATHS Eddie Clouder (Rathcline) cousin of Marian Daly
. CHURCH COLLECTIONS We deeply appreciate your support during this difficult time. .Name of Account Clonmacnois Parochial Account.
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‘The Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness’
The word Lent means springtime. It is the season of lengthening days, new life, new hope, new beginnings. The Latin root of the word is ‘lente’, which suggests the call to slow down, proceed slowly, gently, carefully. In the first three centuries of the Christian era, the followers of Christ prepared for Easter by praying and fasting for three days. In some places, this was extended to the entire week before Easter. By the fourth century Lent had developed to its’ current length of forty days to replicate the time Jesus spent in the wilderness in preparation for His public ministry. The Wilderness is a barren strip, thirty-five miles by fifteen between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. In that bleak place, He couldn’t have been more alone. He is confronted by Satan, but emerges victorious from the struggle. Nobody witnessed the dramatic event, so He must have reported it often to His friends. The episode raises the curtain on the Lenten drama and invites us once more to enter the quiet place where deepening and re-evaluation take place.
‘Solitude is the audience chamber of God’.
TUESDAY NIGHTS Our Tuesday Scripture reflections series continues on Tuesday, February 23rd at 8pm. Young students from St. Louis’ Community School, Kiltimagh, Co. Mayo will reflect on how this piece of Scripture speaks to them in their daily lives. The reflection will be streamed on our website www.knockshrine.ie at 8pm.
‘Living the Christian Faith - Lenten Conversations’. Knock Shrine, Thursdays of Lent at 8.30pm, chaired by Fr. Eamonn Conway, DD, Professor of Theology at Mary Immaculate College. Topic for Thursday 25th February: ‘Living Christian Faith as Young Adults’. A group of young Irish adults, for whom Christian Faith is of great importance, will discuss the strength it gives them and how we can better communicate the joy of the Gospel today. www.knockshrine.ie/watch-live or on Facebook @knockshrine.
GALWAY TO ATHLONE CYCLEWAY
There are only 8 days left to make submissions to get the greenway to Shannonbridge!!
Please take the time to fill in A form & circulate to all your friends & family! I cant’ publish the link (it’s long!) in print but will send to anyone! Text/Call Shannonbridge Action Group members or myself at 086 8319500. Thanks. More at
Galway to Athlone Cycleway Home
A JOURNEY THROUGH LENT. Westport Alpha team invite you to join them on Zoom for a journey through Lent this year. The series continues on Wednesday evening at 8.00 p. m on 24th February and each successive Wed. eve. to 24th March.
Mobile Foot Health Practitioner Service - House Calls Available Daytime and Evening. Contact Maura at 086-8053671 to arrange an appt.
God spoke to Noah and his sons, ‘See, I establish my Covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; also with every living creature to be found with you, birds, cattle and every wild beast with you: everything that came out of the ark, everything that lives on the earth. I establish my Covenant with you: no thing of flesh shall be swept away again by the waters of the flood. There shall be no flood to destroy the earth again.’
God said, ‘Here is the sign of the Covenant I make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all generations: I set my bow in the clouds and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I will recall the Covenant between myself and you and every living creature of every kind. And so the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all things of flesh.’
The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm Ps 24
Response Your ways, Lord, are faithfulness and love for those who keep your covenant.
1. Lord, make me know your ways./Lord, teach me your paths./Make me walk in your truth, and teach me:/for you are God my saviour. Response
A reading from the 1st letter of St Peter 3:18.22 Christ himself, innocent though he was, died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life, and, in the spirit, he went to preach to the spirits in prison. Now it was long ago, when Noah was still building that ark which saved only a small group of eight people ‘by water’, and when God was still waiting patiently, that these spirits refused to believe.
That water is a type of the baptism which saves you now, and which is not the washing off of physical dirt but a pledge made to God from a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has entered heaven and is at God’s right hand, now that he has made the angels of the Dominations and Powers his subjects.
The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
Gospel acclamation Mt 4:4
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory! Man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Praise to you O Christ…..
After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand.
Repent, and believe the Good News.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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