Clonmacnois Parish
June 6th 2021
Corpus Christi
Email: clonmacnoiseparish@gmail.com
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FEAST OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
‘Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the Living Heart of each of our parishes’ (Pope St Paul V1). This feast is charged with happy memories of throngs of the faithful moving in devotional processions through streets festooned with papal flags, tricolours and all manner of bunting. At every door stood little altars, laden with statues, holy pictures and candles. The men and women walked proudly and reverently in their ‘Sunday best’, as they prayed the fifteen decades of the rosary and raised their voices with gusto to sing the ancient hymns, while the children from the First Holy Communion class scattered flower petals on the roadway, and all to salute the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. On this day we remember with gratitude all those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith who preserved this treasure for us through days of persecution and days of prosperity. It could be said that we got cheap what they bought dear. They have left us a monument more lasting than bronze. As we accept anew the responsibility of holding the gift in trust for the next generation we recall the words spoken by Pope Benedict to parents some years ago: ‘Please go with your children to Church. This is not time lost. The day becomes more beautiful, the whole week becomes more beautiful when you go to Sunday Mass together’. ‘The moment we separate our lives from the Eucharist, something breaks (St. Teresa of Calcutta)
Love’s Choice This bread is light, dissolving, almost air, A little visitation on my tongue, A wafer-thin sensation, hardly there. This taste of wine is brief in flavour, flung A moment to the palate’s roof and fled, Even its aftertaste a memory. Yet this is how He comes. Through wine and bread Love chooses to be emptied into me. He does not come in unimagined light Too bright to be denied, too absolute For consciousness, too strong for sight, Leaving the seer blind, the poet mute; Chooses instead to seep into each sense, To dye himself into experience. (adapted from the late John O’Donohue)
SHANNONBRIDGE (Max 50)
Monday 7th June 10am Optional Memorial of St. Colman, Bishop
Tuesday 8th June 10am
Wednesday 9th June - 10am ServiSt. Columba (Colum Cille)
Thursday 10th June St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church
Friday 11th June - 10am Feast of Sacred Heart. Irish people have a great devotion to the Sacred Heart. June is the month of the Sacred Heart.
CLONFANLOUGH (Max 50)
Sunday June 6th 10:30am
Thursday June 10th 7pm
Sunday June 13th 10:30am John P. O’Shea & wife Mary Margaret
.OFFERTORY May 23rd €985 CLONMACNOIS PARISH
CEMETERY MASS I’m waiting on the June 7th announcement by Govt, some optimistic sounds about 100 being allowed outdoors. I note Cloghan/Banagher parish are opting for June Masses in Church for Cemetery Remembrance
Please pray for the repose of the souls of Harry Holding (Mullingar & formerly Cloniffe) Patricia Bertucci (née Egan of Clonlyon) Died Detroit, Michigan on 4/6/21. Aunt of McEvoy and O'Shea Family
KNOCK SHRINE Believing and Belonging: Biblical perspectives on the Community of Faith. The popular Scripture Summer School will take place online from June 1st to 22nd 2021. This year’s theme is Believing and belonging: biblical perspectives on the community of faith. The Scripture school will consist of 15 pre-recorded lectures that you can follow at your leisure. Online registration is necessary to attend. The flexible structure of these online events means that you can take part at your own pace, at a time that is suitable to you. Register at www.knock-shrine.ie
FOOT CARE Mobile Foot health Practitioner Service House Calls Availa ble. Daytime & Evening. Contact Maura at 086 8053671 to arrange an appointment.
PUBLIC WORSHIP GUIDELINES FROM JUNE 7TH 2021
Funerals: Maximum 50 mourners at service. No other events to take place
Baptisms: The number permitted to attend baptism in the Church is limited to 10
Lotto can be played online also at clubforce
CHURCH CARE S’bridge Paula Claffey, Antoinette Kelly, Deirdre Kenny Clonfanlough: Leanne Quinne/Breda Maleney) READER June 12th@ 7pm Patti Corbett June 13th Declan McEvoy Church Counters Shannonbridge (June)
NOVENA TO ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA 4th June – 13th June. O holy St. Anthony, gentlest of saints, your love for God and charity for your neighbour, made you worthy when on earth to possess miraculous powers. Miracles waited on your word, which you were ever ready to speak for those in trouble or anxiety. Encouraged by this thought I implore of you to obtain for me my request (mention your intention). The answer to my prayer may require a miracle; even so you are the saint of miracles. O gentle and loving St. Anthony whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, whisper my prayer into the ears of the sweet infant Jesus, who loved to linger in your arms; and the gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. Amen.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you”. I come to you in faith and trust, in love and hope. Let me know your closeness to me and your care for me and for all who are dear to me. My intention for this Novena is dear to me and I know that what is important to me is important to you. Hear my prayer (mention your intention); grant what I ask, and may I always trust that in all that happens in life, you will be close to me as my friend, guide and saviour. And so, Most sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
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