Clonmacnois Parish
Aug 1st 2021
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fr. Tom Cox (Adm) Tel. 090 9674125/ 0868319500
Email: clonmacnoiseparish@gmail.com
FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/tomas.macconchoille (Live)
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SHANNONBRIDGE(15 seats/Max 50
Sat 31st July 7p.m.
Monday 2nd August 10 Mass (Public Holiday) Optional memorial of St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop
Tuesday 3rd August 10am Mass
Wednesday 4th August 10am Mass
St. John Mary Vianney, Priest
Thursday 5th August 10am Mass
Optional memorial of The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major
Friday 6th August 7p.m.
7pm.Brian & Josephine Kenny
The Transfiguration of The Lord (Feast)
Saturday 7th August 7p.m Vigil
Optional Memorial of Ss. Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs
CLONFANLOUGH (Max 50)
Sunday 1st August 10:30am Mass
Fri 6th August 8p.m. Kathleen Maleney
Sat 7th August 12 Noon Sean Rohan
Sun 8th August 10:30a.m Pro Populo
OFFERTORY July 25th €560 Peter’s Pence €296
Anniversary Masses: when booking an anniversary Mass, please be flexible with the date involved, as we try to regulate numbers attending Mass at the weekend
First Friday Friday next August 6th, the Feast of the Transfiguration is the First Friday of the month of August. Sick and h o u s e b o u n d parishioners will receive the Sacraments at home. If you know of any housebound parishioners who would like to receive the sacraments please contact me 086 8319500
YOUTH 2000 Summer Festival will take place from 13th to 15th August in multiple venues. Information at www.youth2000.ie
CEMETERY Many thanks to people who routinely clean and clear up in our cemetery of Clonmacnois. I always feel this is being read by the converted and with just a little nudge we might get people who leave their grave material at the wall or into adjoining fields to please stop and consider and bring it (rubbish) home. Also remember to close the gate so domestic pets don’t enter. Thank you for casting a kindly eye and helpful hand over other graves too.
18th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
‘Work for food that endures to eternal life’ Jack Dempsey was one of the most famous and popular boxers in history. On July 4th 1919 he reached the pinnacle of his career when he defeated Jess Willard to become heavyweight champion of the world. The next morning when he awoke in his hotel room he had a strange sense of emptiness inside. When asked to explain this surprising feeling, he replied: ‘success didn’t taste the way I thought it would. I had won the world championship, so what’? Down through the ages people have discovered as Dempsey did, that worldly success, fame, adulation do not satisfy the deepest hungers of the human heart. Seeking satisfaction in the things of the world is like chasing the wind. Something more is needed, and in chapter six of St. John’s Gospel Jesus points the way. He is the Bread of Life and our hearts will always be restless until they rest in Him. Every longing that we try to satisfy apart from Him will fall short. Come to think of it the main difference between the greatest saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy the hungers of their hearts. The seventeenth century French philosopher Blaise Pascal expressed it better than most when he wrote: ‘There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each person which cannot be satisfied by any created thing, but only by God the Creator made known by Jesus Christ’.
NEW COVID UPDATES
Weddings: Currently 50 guests are permitted to attend a wedding ceremony and reception. From Thursday 5 August, the maximum number of guests permitted to attend a wedding will increase from 50 to 100 (current protective measures apply).
Baptisms: From Thursday 5 August, Baptism services may proceed. However, they must follow all protective measures, while social gatherings afterwards should be avoided.
Funerals: The number of mourners permitted at funerals continues to be limited to 50, regardless of size of venue. Attendance at wakes in private homes and at funeral homes is for family only. Related family gatherings should strictly adhere to prevailing public health advice on household mixing, including visitors to your home and indoor and outdoor dining
DEATHS - Please pray for the repose of the souls of
Christopher Darcy Boston & Shannonbridge .. May the gentle light of Christ lead him safely home.
RECENT BAPTISMS: With great joy we welcome: Ethan Kelly (Fardrum) in Christian Baptism recently
SHANNONBRIDGE GAA LOTTO DRAW 26th July 2021 Numbers drawn on Facebook Live 2-8-11-19 No Jackpot Winner, Two Match 3’s. Jackpot now at €13,200
PRAYERS AT A GRAVE
Sign of Cross In the Name of …..
Our brother/sister N. has gone to his/her rest in the peace of Christ. May the Lord now welcome him/her to the table of God’s children in heaven. With faith and hope in eternal life, let us assist him/her with our prayers. Let us pray to the Lord also for ourselves. May we who mourn be reunited one day with N.; together may we meet Christ Jesus when he who is our life appears in glory.
Scripture Verse : [ Matthew 25:34 119] Come, you whom my Father has blessed, says the Lord; inherit the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world.
PRAYER AT A GRAVESIDE
Lord Jesus Christ, by your own three days in the tomb, you hallowed the graves of all who believe in you and so made the grave a sign of hope that promises resurrection even as it claims our mortal bodies. Grant that our brother/sister may sleep here in peace until you awaken him/her to glory, for you are the resurrection and the life. Then he/she will see you face to face and in your light will see light and know the splendour of God, for you live and reign for ever and ever. R⁄ Amen.
Our Father….Hail Mary
Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen
Concluding Prayer: May the love of God and the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ bless and console us and gently wipe every tear from our eyes: in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
At this time we remember and pray for all our dearly departed loved ones and especially those who have been laid to rest in our cemetery in the past year May they rest in peace.
Burials in Clonmacnois 1-8.20-July 24th 2021
Bridget Mannion Clonaderig 7th August 2020
Josephine Darcy Kilgarvin 8th Oct 20
Francis Coughlan Kilgarvin Oct 30th 2020
Mary Kenny Ballyduff 16th Nov 2020
Jim Rogers Shannonbridge 20th Nov 2020
Seán Coffey Ballinahowen 23rd Nov 2020
Dan Egan Ballyduff 11th Dec 2020
Kieran Kelly Leharrow 16th Dec 2020
Michael Malone Creagh 6th Jan 2021
Joan Farrelly Shannonbridge 7th Jan 2021
Rose Coakley Bloomhill 4th Feb 2021
Larry Kelly Kilgarvan 2nd April 2021
Tom Martin Bellair 27th April 2021
Patrick Rigney Corcullen 2nd May 2021
Seán Hanniffy Lackabeg 20th May 2021
Elizabeth (Betty) Ryan Doon14th June 2021
Anne Egan Ballyhearth 17th June 2021
Kathleen Maleney Glebe 8th July 2021
Thomas Claffey Shannonharbour 15th July 2021
ALSO the family of God laid to rest in Cloniffeen & Glebe burial Grounds.
CEMETERY PRAYER
May God’s perpetual light shine upon the faces of all laid to rest here. May the lives they lived in our homes continue to inspire and to guide us on the way. May the memories we carry and share in stories, keep them part of our lives and part of our family. May the gentle Summer rains fall like tears from the skies of Heaven to bless them. May the wild flowers and the Summer meadows whisper their prayer in the gentle breeze of silence. May the birds of the dawn chorus sing their prayer of the beauty and joy of Heaven. May we always reverence this sacred clay as the holy ground that holds seeds of hope. May each time we visit, walk, sit, pray and listen here bring us closer to the heart of God’s kindness. May the Angels guide them, the Saints protect them and the prayer of Mary hold them in the light. Amen.
MINISTRIES IN CHURCH
CHURCH CARE S’bridge Martha Murphy Marie McManus Clonfanlough: Marian Devery/Ann Kelly(Aug) READER Aug 7th @ 7pm Dympna O’Carroll Aug. 8th Rita Molloy Church Counters July (Shannonbridge)
WALK IN PFIZER VACCINATION CLINICS Tullamore Covid Vaccination Centre (Tullamore Court Hotel) is running walk in PFIZER clinics for everyone aged 16 and above on : Sunday August 1st: 8.30am to 1.00pm
Monday August 2nd 8.30am to 7.00pm.
PLEASE BRING PHOTOGRAPHIC ID AND YOUR PPS NUMBER.
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