Clonmacnois Parish

January 30th 2022

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time(C)

Fr. Tom Cox (Adm) Tel. 090 9674125/  0868319500 

Email: clonmacnoiseparish@gmail.com

     WEB  shannonbridge.blogspot.ie

FACEBOOK    https://www.facebook.com/tomas.macconchoille  (Live)

 

 FOURTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

As Jesus continues to preach His first sermon the mood turns to anger and the audience becomes a mob intent on His destruction. He is rejected by His own when He holds up as models the widow of Zarephath and Naaman, the Syrian, two Gentiles, two outsiders, two strangers. This was a bridge too far. They refused to countenance the challenge of His teaching, to look beneath the surface, to think beyond the box, to reach beyond themselves, to stand with the excluded. It was only when He had departed that His followers would come to grasp the meaning of His inspiring words on that day in Nazareth: ‘when you look for beauty in all people and all things you not only find it you become it’. A beautiful custom then grew among the first generations of Christians whereby a room was held free in their homes for any stranger who might come looking for shelter. It was known as ‘the stranger’s room’. They had come to believe that by welcoming the stranger they were welcoming Christ. They had come to grasp the Gospel truth and it had set them free

 Spring-Time - Lá Fhéile Bríde Next Tuesday, February 1st, is the Feast of St. Brigid and also the first day of Springtime. We welcome the month of February, the beginning of Spring, month of lambing, month of three kinds of weather: wind, rain and snow. Now that spring has come, days will get longer. We experience new life and light as nature awakens. We praise God for this beautiful time of year, when Mother Nature begins to wake up and signs of new life begin to emerge all around. The birds are busy building new nests and the snowdrops have peeped out their white heads. It is a time of new beginning, hope and new life. We also praise God for this great woman St. Brigid - one of our heroines in the faith story - her life and care enabled people to blossom and develop. St. Brigid was known for her kindness and love, and this is what defined her.... It was not only what she did, or accomplished, but who she became by the grace of Christ……. St Brigid was defined by Love – the divine love that took Christ to the cross. Saint Brigid’s Blessing May Brigid bless the house wherein we dwell. Bless every fireside, every wall and door. Bless every heart that beats beneath its roof. Bless every hand that toils to bring its joy. Ble
ss every foot that walks portals through. May Brigid bless the house that shelters us

  SHANNONBRIDGE

Saturday,            29th   January.  

7pm Rita Kenny (4th Anniv)

“Do This In Memory Mass” with our 2nd&3rd Class)

Monday Jan 31st  10am  Margaret, Michael & Denis Kelly (Anniv.)

Tuesday 1st Feb 10am Mass

Wednesday 2nd Feb 10am Mass

Thursday 3rd Feb 10am Mass

(First) Friday 4th Feb 10am Mass

Saturday 5th Feb 7pm Pro Populo

CLONFANLOUGH  

Sunday,  30th   January.     Fourth  Sunday in Ordinary Time 10:30am

Thursday 3rd Feb 7pm

Friday 4th Feb 7pm Patrick (Paddy) Dolan Glebe (5th Anniv.)

Sunday 6th Feb 2022 Padraig Devery (Clonlyon)

CLUAIN CHIARAIN

Tuesday 1st February 9am Mass

RECENT DEATH - Please pray for the repose of the soul of  .  Kathleen Molloy (Glebe) & Sarah Darcy  (Clonmacnois) May they rest in peace.

OFFERTORY  January 30th €525 Christmas Dues €3,800 lodged to Central Clergy Fund

COMING WEEK

Mon 1st St. John Bosco

Tuesday 1st February: St. Brigid—Patroness of Ireland. St.  Brigid’s Cross.

Wednesday 2nd February: Presentation of the Lord - World  Day for Consecrated Life: We remember all the religious— Also called “Candlemas Day”: Today we bless the candles which will e used in  the Parish during the coming year. Sometimes people leave candles for use in the Church or Home.

Thursday 3rd February: St. Blaise.  He is venerated as patron of those who suffer from disease of the throat

The traditional blessing of throats will take place at all Masses on St. Blaise’s day. Masses will be 10am Shannonbridge, 7pm Clonfanlough

Friday: First Friday of the Month. Masses at  10am and  7pm. Communion will be taken to the sick and housebound of the Parish.

 

 SHANNONBRIDGE EXERCISE CLASSES  Aerobics class Wed 7:30pm,  Pilates Class Thursday 11am. More Details phone 087 2410587

MOBILE FOOT HEALTH PRACTITIONER SERVICE House Calls Available Daytime and Evening. Contact Maura at 086-8053671 to arrange an appointment.

MENPOWER - Are you interested in expanding your horizons? Do you want to build your mental and physical health, set goals and develop a life plan? Then join us for the new MenPower Programme beginning Wednesday 9th February, two days per week for 12 weeks. Participation on this programme is FREE and will not affect social welfare benefits. For more info. contact Aoife on 087-7385989 or email akelly@offalyldc.ie.

PRAYER FOR PEACE - In the light of the increasing tensions between Russia and Ukraine Pope Francis has asked people everywhere to pray for peace at this time.

RE OPENING OF OUR CHURCHES (JANUARY 2022)  The recent announcements by Government regarding the easing the Covid-19 restrictions are very welcome. However, the fact remains that the Omicron variant is still a threat to the health and well-being of the faithful, and so for now we must remain alert to the dangers of unnecessary exposure of our congregations and Community Therefore we ask you to continue to attend to the safety precautions of –

 Wearing face masks, and sanitising your hands on entering the church.

 As we look to the future and the re-opening of our churches, we must continue to ensure that any relaxation of restrictions is in tandem with the decrease in the threat of the pandemic and its variants. As the situation develops, we will revise our guidelines accordingly. We thank you for your continued support and understanding

FATIMA FILM SCREENING Film@BirrTheatre are delighted to announce the  screening of FÁTIMA, Thursday 03 Feb 8pm Based on historical events, three young shepherds  in Fátima, Portugal, report visions of the Virgin  Mary, inspiring believers and angering officials of  the Church and the government, who try to make  them recant their story. ! ALL WELCOME! To Book: www.birrtheatre.com,  Box Office: Mon – Fri 1-5.30pm 05791 22911

 

 SHANNONBRIDGE GAA are delighted to announce that  Shannonbridge GAA walking track 👣 is open from Monday 31st Jan onwards.  Timed lighting on from 6pm to 10pm daily.  Strictly NO dogs allowed.

LOTTO DRAW  Jan 24th 2022 Numbers drawn on Facebook Live  2-4-7-23 No winner, Seven Match 3’s Jackpot now €3,200

Lotto can be played online also at clubforce

Quote....Unquote  · “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce....? The cuckoo clock.” -Orson Welles

FOR YOUR VIEWING

RTE1 Monday, 31st January “Droichid na hEireann” featuring among other the bridge over the Shannon

Tuesday 1st February A New Television Programme Entitled - The Brontës: An Irish Tale, which includes some footage on the Banagher connection with the famous literary family, will be broadcast on Tuesday 1st February on BBC One Northern Ireland and on the BBC iPlayer at 10.35 p.m. The programme lasts about 30 minutes. Presenter Aoife Hinds (Derry Girls, Normal People, The Last Call) will explore the strong Irish connections that had a lasting impact on the Brontës, their work and their legacy in locations throughout Ireland and Yorkshire. Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nicholls of Banagher married after a long courtship and spent most of their honeymoon in Ireland. The film will feature locations in Banagher where Arthur lived for forty-five years after Charlotte's death, and discover that it is thanks to Arthur’s love for Charlotte that much of the iconic Brontë memorabilia survives to this day

. MINISTRIES  IN CHURCH              

 CHURCH CARE Dympna Fitzpatrick, Dympna O’Carroll, Linda Moran  Clonfanlough: Bridie Coughlan

READER Feb 5th 2022 @ 7pm Pattie Corbett Feb 6th @ 10:30  Mary Kelly Eucharistic Minister Marie McManus (S/B), Feb 5th  Anne Rohan  C/f) Feb 6th   Church Counters S/bridge (Feb)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clonmacnois Parish

January 23rd  2022

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fr. Tom Cox (Adm) Tel. 090 9674125/  0868319500 

Email: clonmacnoiseparish@gmail.com

     WEB  shannonbridge.blogspot.ie

FACEBOOK    https://www.facebook.com/tomas.macconchoille  (Live)

https://fb.me/saintciarans  (saved to it afterwards)

 

THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

‘He sent me to bring the Good News to the poor’

 We always pay special attention to the inaugural address of a leader outlining, as it usually does, the vision of the new regime. Today we listen with special attention as Jesus delivers his first sermon in the synagogue in Capernaum. It is His ‘mission statement’ and His mission will be different. He will have a special concern and care for the last, the least and the lost. During His public ministry, He will put flesh on the words of that first sermon. He will touch the untouchable. He will invite the outsider in. He will welcome the sinner home. He will in short, proclaim the equal dignity of all God’s children. G.K. Chesterton, poet, writer and convert to Catholicism, proposed a simple, everyday image to explain the heart of Jesus’ mission: ‘People are equal in the same way that pennies are equal. Some are bright; others are dull; some are worn smooth; others are sharp and fresh. But all are equal in value, because each penny bears the image of the sovereign, each person bears the image of the King of Kings’.

 

FROM THE DESK

Can I be a Healer. This is the prayer for “Unity Week”, Christian unity. For me , one of the saddest experience is to see a family divided, friends who “fall out”, or neighbours not speaking to each other, often for years. I too know the hurt in the past of “being blanked”. In the modern world of social media, we cancel people . A “falling out” often begins in misunderstanding, is nurtured by hurt, festers in suspicion and ends in the exclusion of a family member, a neighbour or a former friend. Sometimes there will be one person who stirs the pot of suspicion and division. Some even get a kick out of it. Always too , there is one who seeks to be the healer, to make allowances, to see the bigger picture, have a sense of perspective and a sense of humour: the one who is a mender of fences. Every form of division in a family, workplace, club or neighbourhood , affects the whole community. It is like a blockage to the beating heart of a parish, that is Jesus of the Holy Eucharist. Can I be a healer, a mender of fences?. Can I be a person of forgiveness and making allowances?. Can I be the one who stretches out the hand across the broken fence of days, months or years, that awful broken fence of exclusion, silence and hurt?. I will be the better for it………

 SHANNONBRIDGE

Saturday 22nd 7pm Vigil Mass St. Vincent.

Mon24th  Jan  10am St. Francis de Sales ,                   

Tues25th Jan 10am Conversion of St. Paul,

Wed  26th Jan 10am  Saints Timothy and Titus,

Thurs,  27th Jan. 10am  St. Angela Merici

Fri 28th  Jan. 10am   St.  Thomas Aquinas

Saturday,            29th   January.   7pm 

(Re-scheduled  “Do This In Memory Mass” with our 2nd&3rd Class)

CLONFANLOUGH  

Sunday 23rd Jan 2022  10:30am  John Loonam & Loonam family. Dan Edwards & Edwards Family

Mon 24th Funeral of Kathleen Molloy Glebe (no time given as we went to print)

Sunday,  30th   January.     Fourth  Sunday in Ordinary Time 10:30am

RECENT DEATH - Please pray for the repose of the soul of  Ciarán (Harry) Kearns, Clonfanlough.  Kathleen Molloy (Glebe) May they rest in peace.

OFFERTORY  January 16th €1,305

UPCOMING  FEAST DAYS

Jan. 24th St Francis de Sales As the bishop of Geneva (Switzerland) he worked to rebuild the Catholic faith after the Reformation. He died in 1622.

Jan. 25th The Conversion of St Paul Following his conversion on the road to Damascus, the onetime persecutor of Christians became a teacher and preacher of the people.

Jan 26th Ss Timothy & Titus (First century)

Jan 27th St. Angela Merici  ​​St. Angela Merici was an Italian religious educator and founder of the Ursulines. She was born on 21 March, 1474 in Desenzano, a small town on the shore of Lake Garda in Lombardy. When Angela was only 10 years old, she and her older sister became orphans. Raised by a wealthy uncle elsewhere, when she returned to her hometown and found many refugees there from wars of that time. Angela gathered around her women like her under St. Ursula’s protection. The Ursulines opened orphanages and schools. Angela Merici died on January 27, 1540, and was canonized in 1807.

. MINISTRIES  IN CHURCH              

 CHURCH CARE Marion McManus, Catherina Slattery, Ann Corbett Clonfanlough:   Mary Guinan, Anne Guinan (Jan.)

READER Jan 29th 2022 @ 7pm Dympna O’Carroll  Jan 30th  @ 10:30  Declan McEvoy Eucharistic Minister John Mitchell (S/B), Jan 29th /Kay Kelly C/f) Jan 30th  Church Counters Clonfanlough (Jan)

 NEW CONSTRUCTION STUDIES PROGRAMME - Will be commencing at Banagher FET Centre on Monday 14th of February 2022. Modules include: Renewable Energy Systems, Concreting, Floor and Wall Tiling, MIG Welding and NZEB Awareness, Thermal Insulation Installation and Safe Pass Training. A training allowance is payable where applicable. For further details you can contact: (M) 085 8016195 or 085 8051912

WEEK OF PRAYER  CHRISTIAN UNITY From 18th—25th January, the week of prayer for Christian unity is held. The theme for the 2022 Week of Prayer is ‘We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship him.’

 SHANNONBRIDGE GAA LOTTO DRAW Jan 17th  2022 Numbers drawn on FB Live 5–9-18 -30 No Jackpot Winner. No  Match 3 winners.  Jackpot now €3,000

GRANDPARENTS DAY 26th Jan

We celebrate the contribution of grandparents, who support children in so many ways, including the handing on of our faith. This is the prayer for grandparents— Lord Jesus, you were born of the Virgin Mary, the daughter of Saints Joachim and Anne. Look with love on grandparents the world over. Protect them! They are a source of enrichment for families, for the Church and for all of society. Support them! As they grow older, may they continue to be for their families strong pillars of Gospel faith, guardians of noble domestic ideals, living treasuries of sound religious traditions. Make them teachers of wisdom and courage, that they may pass on to future generations the fruits of their mature human and spiritual experience. Amen.

C a n d l e m a s D a y Wednesday 2nd February is C a n d l e m a s Day, the Feast o f t h e Presentation of Jesus and the Day of Consecrated Life. The Blessing of Candles will take place at all Masses on Candlemas Day. Candles for both Church and home use can be left into any of our churches. We thank all those who donate candles for use in our churches.

SHANNONBRIDGE EXERCISE CLASSES  Aerobics class Wed 7:30pm,  Pilates Class Thursday 11am. More Details phone 087 2410587

 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK  Catholic Schools Week will be celebrated in schools across the island of Ireland from Sunday 23 January - Sunday 30 January. The theme for Catholic Schools Week 2022 is ‘Catholic Schools: Living Life to the Full’. During Catholic Schools Week families, parishes and schools are invited to participate in a week of celebration of Catholic schools reflecting on their contribution to the common good of society. For Catholic Schools Week, Fr Gareth Byrne, (Dublin) will celebrate Sunday Mass broadcast on RTE One television on 30 January 2022 at 11am.

SYNODAL PRAYER As we are called to embrace this synodal path of the Synod 2021-2023, this prayer invites the Holy Spirit to operate within us so that we may be a community and a people of grace. We stand before You, Holy Spirit, as we gather together in Your name. With You alone to guide us, make Yourself at home in our hearts; Teach us the way we must go and how we are to pursue it. We are weak and sinful; do not let us promote disorder. Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path nor partiality influence our actions. Let us find in You our unity so that we may journey together to eternal life and not stray from the way of truth and what is right. All this we ask of You, who are at work in every place and time, in the communion of the Father and the Son, forever and ever. Amen.

WE LOOK WITH UNCERTAINY:

As we seem to be moving from Pandemic to Endemic– there are no protocols as yet put out for us. However let us all take this re opening at our own pace. This poem speaks

We look with uncertainty

beyond the old choices for

clear-cut answers

to a softer, more permeable aliveness

which is every moment

at the brink of death;

for something new is being born in us

if we but let it.

we stand at a new doorway,

awaiting that which comes…..

daring to be human creatures,

vulnerable to the beauty of existence.

learning to love.   Anne Hillman

 

 

 

SHANNONBRIDGE

Saturday 22nd 7pm Vigil Mass St. Vincent.

Mon24th  Jan  10am St. Francis de Sales ,                   

Tues25th Jan 10am Conversion of St. Paul,

Wed  26th Jan 10am  Saints Timothy and Titus,

Thurs,  27th Jan. 10am  St. Angela Merici

Fri 28th  Jan. 10am   St.  Thomas Aquinas

Saturday,            29th   January.   7pm 

(Re-scheduled  “Do This In Memory Mass” with our 2nd&3rd Class)

CLONFANLOUGH  

Sunday 23rd Jan 2022  10:30am  John Loonam & Loonam family. Dan Edwards & Edwards Family

Mon 24th Funeral of Kathleen Molloy Glebe (no time given as we went to print)

Sunday,  30th   January.     Fourth  Sunday in Ordinary Time 10:30am

RECENT DEATH - Please pray for the repose of the soul of  Ciarán (Harry) Kearns, Clonfanlough.  Kathleen Molloy (Glebe) May they rest in peace.

OFFERTORY  January 16th €1,305

UPCOMING  FEAST DAYS

Jan. 24th St Francis de Sales As the bishop of Geneva (Switzerland) he worked to rebuild the Catholic faith after the Reformation. He died in 1622.

Jan. 25th The Conversion of St Paul Following his conversion on the road to Damascus, the onetime persecutor of Christians became a teacher and preacher of the people.

Jan 26th Ss Timothy & Titus (First century)

Jan 27th St. Angela Merici  ​​St. Angela Merici was an Italian religious educator and founder of the Ursulines. She was born on 21 March, 1474 in Desenzano, a small town on the shore of Lake Garda in Lombardy. When Angela was only 10 years old, she and her older sister became orphans. Raised by a wealthy uncle elsewhere, when she returned to her hometown and found many refugees there from wars of that time. Angela gathered around her women like her under St. Ursula’s protection. The Ursulines opened orphanages and schools. Angela Merici died on January 27, 1540, and was canonized in 1807.

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