Clonmacnois Parish May 1st 2022

 

Clonmacnois Parish

May 1st 2022

3rd Sunday of Easter (C)

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

Email: clonmacnoiseparish@gmail.com

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Third Sunday of Easter
‘Come and have breakfast’
The word hospitality comes from two Greek words meaning ‘love of strangers’. It is a virtue that is both commanded and commended in Scripture. Hospitality was central in the life of Jesus. We find him regularly acting as host or guest while sitting at table with friends and strangers. It is said of the ministry of Jesus that He is either going to a meal, at a meal or coming from a meal. It was often in the meal setting that He delivered His most profound teaching. If you take the meals out of the Bible it becomes a very short book. Meals are more than food. They are about community, connection, friendship and fellowship. They represent open hearts, open hands and open doors. They are a reminder to us of the generous hospitality of our God. Before we invite people to Church, perhaps we should invite them to dinner! It is no surprise, then, to find that the disciples recognize Jesus in today’s Gospel as He prepares breakfast for them by the shore. We cannot survive in life without food or love Jesus provides us with both in the Eucharis
CLONFERT MAY  DEVOTIONS
Masses Mon-Fri 7:30pm (+Friday 12 Noon) Sat 7pm, Sunday 10:30am & 7pm
Mass livestreamed www.churchservices.tv/clonfert  Church open 7am –11pm daily
Sun 1st May Masses 10:30 & 7pm  Mon 2nd May (Celebrant Fr. Kieran O’Rourke) Tues May 3rd (Cel Fr. Pat Conroy) Wed May 4th (Cel Fr. Tom Hogan) Thurs 5th (Cel Mons Cathal Geraghty) Fri 6th May (Fr. Declan McInerney—Mass 12 noon & 7:30pm Sat 7th May (Cel Fr. Declan McInerney) Mass 7pm
 
OUR LADY OF CLONFERT, I come to you, as one of your children, who will never forget the importance of a woman like you. I come because I believe in you. I come to say thanks for the past and the present and ask you to bless me in the future. You know me, you know how I live and you know my needs. Please help me especially when I need you most. I have problems, worries and anxieties the same as everyone else - help me to cope. So often I would just love to give up when life hurts me and people betray me, but give me the courage never to lose heart. Bless my family, my life and my friends. Help me, no matter what happens to me in life, to believe, to trust and to hope. Our Lady of Clonfert, pray for us.
 
 SHANNONBRIDGE
Sat 30th April 7pm
-Oliver Hilliard (m/m)
-Edward & Margaret Cogivan & dec’d members
-Patrick Duffy & son Paddy & Bessie O’Connor
Mon May 2nd 10am Mass
Tues May 3rd 10am Service
Wed May 4th 10am Mass
Thurs May 5th 10am Mass
Fri May 6th 10am Mass
Sat May 7th
-12 Noon First Communion
-7pm Margaret Carty (7th Anniv.)
CLONFANLOUGH
1st May 3rd Sun of Easter 10:30am
Fri 6th May 7pm (1st Fri.)
8th May 4th Sun of Easter 10:30am
CLUAIN CHIARAIN
Mass Wednesday, May 4th @ 7:30pm
FIRST COMMUNION May 7th 12 Noon
FEAST DAYS  May 2nd St Athanasius A saint of the early church, he was born in 295 in North Africa.  May 3rd Ss Philip and James (Apostles) May 4th St. Conleth, bishop (Optional Memorial)  5th May Bl. Edmund Rice, religious (Optional Memorial)
      
MAY ROSARIES... It would be nice if people wished to pray a weekly Rosary at our lovely Church grottos. Even a decade in our family homes for May... Just a thought
First Friday:  Friday  6th May is the 1st Friday of the month.  Holy  Communion to the sick and the housebound.    CONFESSIONS:  Friday 10.30 - 11.00am (Shannonbridge) and  7.30-8pm.(Clonfanlough)
TROCAIRE The hardest part of the Trócaire Lenten Campaign is to get the Trócaire Box from the kitchen table to the Church. We appeal for the return of all your boxes this week please
Diocesan Assembly 14th May
. Please keep in your prayers these days. “Jesus you promise us your Holy Spirit to guide us always until the end of time”
SHANNONBRIDGE GAA LOTTO Draw April 25th '22. Numbers drawn 5-18-21-32
No Winner, Two  Match 3. Jackpot now €5,800
LOCAL LINK BUS SERVICE TO Athlone every Saturday from Shannonbridge Church at 1:30pm. Return from Golden Island Athlone at 4:45pm
FOOT CARE Mobile Foot health Practitioner Service House Calls Available. Daytime & Evening. Contact Maura at 086 8053671 to arrange an appointment
PARISH OFFERTORY April 24th €560
Name of Account Clonmacnois Parochial Account. BIC-BOFIIE2DXXX    
IBAN-IE90BOFI90368011629381 
IBAN-IE90BOFI90368011629381 Please put your name and/or your box number in reference section. 
Lough Derg 2022: Pilgrimage season re-opens on Sunday 1st May 2022. One Day Retreats are scheduled to take place on May 1st, 2nd, 7th, 10th,15th, 17th, 22nd, 24th, 29th and 30th. August 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 27th, 28th and 30th. September 3rd, 7th, 10th, 13th, 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th. The Three Day Pilgrimages will commence on Wednesday 1st June and continue until 15th August 2022. For more information, contact 01 719861518; info@loughderg.org or www.loughderg.org.
UKRAINE APPEAL:  Sincere thanks to all who contributed so generously to the recent Special Collection for Ukraine. Nationally, this  collection has raised to date over €3.25 million. The war in Ukraine, and the terrible suffering which has resulted, has seen a tremendous             outpouring of compassion and generosity from our parish communities. Your contributions will bring much-needed relief to those in the region whose lives and livelihoods have been devastated. The funds raised will be used by the international Catholic Church agency, Caritas Internationalis, which is  currently operating on the ground in Ukraine.
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Bring Flowers of the Rarest Bring flowers of the rarest bring blossoms the fairest, from gardens and woodlands and hillside and dale; Our full hearts are swelling, our glad voices telling the praise of the loveliest flower of the vale! Chorus: O Mary we crown thee with blossoms today! Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May. O Mary we crown thee with blossoms today, Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May
 
DIOCESAN ASSEMBLY & SYNOD PATHWAY Since September 2019 we have been invited to take part in a listing process throughout the Diocese. Over the first few months, delegates from each parish worked with a wide and varied group of people, to look at their needs and what parish meant for them today. Some of those who took part were involved in parish life and others were not; there were also a good many individual submissions received from people throughout the diocese over this period of time. From these submissions a number of pastoral priorities were voted on, to be developed further. With Covid-19 the work of the Assembly was put on hold, but opportunities were taken to listen to the effects of these last two years on parish life and on parishioners. This month all this work will be gathered together as delegates will assemble in person to work on furthering the priorities that have been discerned over these two years. During this period of time Pope Francis invited submissions from around the world in a Synodal pathway, in the same way that our Diocesan Assembly invited us to listen and discern the Spirit in our parishes today. All the work and viewpoints that have been shared over the last two years will now also form the basis of our submission to the Synod Pathway. There is a line in the prayer for the Assembly which says: “Jesus, you promise us your Holy Spirit to guide us always until the end of time”. We invite you to keep the Assembly of parish representatives on the 14th May and those involved in the Synod in your thoughts and prayers at this time.
 
Prayer to St Joseph– May 1st Joseph the Worker Father, You entrusted to St. Joseph, what You held most precious, the Child Jesus and His Mother. 
          May He, who shared in the suffering of those who flee from the hatred of the powerful , console and protect our brothers and sisters driven by war, poverty and necessity to leave their homes and their lands.
       Help them, through the intercession of St. Joseph, to find the strength to persevere, give them comfort in sorrows and courage in their trials.
      May He who earned His bread by the work of His hands, watch over those who have seen everything in life taken away and obtain for them a job and a home. Grant to those who welcome them some of the tender love of Joseph. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.