Clonmacnois Parish
July 10th 2022
Fifteenth Sunday (C)
Fr. Tom Cox (Adm) Tel. 090 9674125/ 0868319500
Email: clonmacnoiseparish@gmail.com
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-“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” - Patricia Briggs.
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”- Aristotle.
OPENING THE ARCHIVES Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of files relating to Jewish people from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archive. The documents that gather requests for help sent to Pope Pius XII by Jewish people after the beginning of Nazì and fascist persecution have been available for consultation by scholars since March 2020. But Pope Francis has asked that the documents now be made accessible online to everyone
CLASSICAL & POPULAR MUSIC A night of classical and popular music featuring the Mulligan Sisters at St George’s Heritage and Visitor Centre in Carrick on Shannon on the 15th July 2022. Doors will open at 7:30 pm and show will start at 8pm.
FIFTEENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
‘Who is my neighbour’?
The parable of the Good Samaritan is one of the best known and best loved in the New Testament. It is found only in St. Luke’s Gospel. A man lies broken and bruised by the roadside. A priest and a Levite, from whom more would be expected pass-by, each one guided no doubt by the same question: ‘if I stop to help this man what will happen to me’? But when a Samaritan, the great ‘outsider’ arrives on the scene he is moved with compassion for his stricken brother and poses himself a very different question: ‘If I don’t’ stop to help this man what will happen to him’? We rise by lifting others. The ones who stop on the road become bigger people, and they will have their reward. Those who pass by and fail to respond remain small. Consequently, when we reach the end of the road we will most likely, be surprised by those who will be present at the heavenly banquet and those who will be absent. ‘The Good Samaritan isn’t just a parable, it’s a way of life’ (Pope Francis)
Clonmacnois Pattern Day - takes place on Sunday Sept 11th. Pattern 2:45 Mass 3pm
CEMETERY DATES . High Street: Sun 10th July @12
Clonmacnois Cemetery Mass Saturday July 30th @ 3pm
LOUGH DERG 2022: Pilgrimage season is now open, one day retreats and three day pilgrimages available. Further information contact Lough Derg Office info@loughderg.org
CROAGH PATRICK: The annual Reek Sunday Pilgrimage on Croagh Patrick takes place on Sunday July 31st. Mass hourly from 8.00am—2.00pm
Annual Blessing of Graves Once again, I wish to compliment people on the way in which you attend to family plots in the cemetery– I’m aways touched to see a “neighbourly eye” cast over adjoining graves who may not have family to tend their resting place. This is a nice time of year to pay a visit In the coming weeks when wreaths and flowers become unsightly, I would ask you to bring them home— leaving at the wall or over a wall into adjacent fields it simply not on. May all our dead rest in peace.
KIDS COMPUTER CAMP 11-15th JULY
Banagher 10am-2pm Ages 7-12 €55 per participant. Learn Coding, Stop Motion, Scratch, Micro-bit, play fun games & so much more. Call 057 9152003 or Email
Admin@westtoffalytraining.com
NATIONAL LEARNING NETWORK , Tullamore is now enrolling for QQI Level 4 Retail & Employment Skills and Information Technology & Office Skills programmes commencing September 2022. Learn the skills in a relaxed and supported training environment. Contact Yvonne on 086 174 1402 for more information.]
FREE COURSES available in September at Athlone VTOS if you are over 21 and in receipt of a DEASP payment for more than 6 months. We offer Art and Business/IT courses at Athlone Training Centre, Garrycastle, Athlone, with excellent up to date facilities. Hybrid courses may be also available with a mixture of online and in class delivery. Ring Maria on 086 8522795 or email mryan@lwetb.ie "
THANK YOU Margaret Lantry would like to thank all who supported her in her recent fundraiser for East Galway Hospice (Cancer Care Brackernagh). The sum of €700 was raised.
best of luck. Grant me oh Lord a hurlers skill, with strength of arm and speed of limb. Unerring eye for the flying ball. And courage to match them whatever befall
Commiserations to our brave Offaly team who were so narrowly defeated in Sunday's Minor All-Ireland Hurling Final. You did us proud and will do so in the future at under-20 level.
OFFALY GAA - Club championship games at all levels in Offaly are now ticket only. Tickets can only be purchased online. You will find them on Offaly GAA website under ‘Club tickets’ a few days before each match.
https://offaly.gaa.ie/offaly-gaa-club-tickets
MINISTRIES
Readers: 16/7/22 @7pm Ffionn Anderson (SB)/ 17/7/22 Kathleen Guinan (Cf) Communion Sinead Ryan 16/7/22 (7pm SB) Leanne Quinn 17/7/22 (10:30am Clonfanlough) Church Care Paula Claffey/Antoinette Kelly, Deirdre Kenny SB:Niamh Egan/Anne Rohan (CF)
Prayer for the appointment of a new Bishop God, shepherd and guide, in your mercy, give your Church in our diocese a shepherd after your own heart who will walk in your ways, and with loving care watch over your people. Give us a leader of vision and a teacher of your truth. So may your Church be built up and your name glorified, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
The HUB at Knock Shrine – Open July & August: Parents – Need some time for yourselves? Welcome to the HUB at Knock Shrine, open through July and August, the HUB offers a range of fun activities for children and young people visiting Knock Shrine. From the ARK kids Club for children aged 5 years and over to our drop-in centre with arts & crafts, prayer, music and much more. Don’t miss our Family Day on 21st August, a day for families and children with a range of fun activities, all in the beautiful grounds of Knock Shrine. Learn more about summer fun at the HUB at www.knockshrine.ie or phone us on 094 93 75321
NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS PILGRIMAGE at the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock will once again be celebrated on the 24th of July, together with the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. Please contact Connie at catholicgrandparents@gmail.com – phone number 085 8704722.
ARDAGH & CLONMACNOIS DIOCESE ASSEMBLY REPORT The Diocesan Synodal Report Synthesis is available at www.ardaghdiocese.org
JESUIT WEEK at Knock Shrine 24th – 31st July: We are delighted to announce that Jesuit Week is returning to Knock Shrine this year. Jesuit Week has been a part of the programme at Knock Shrine for the past number of years and is always a wonderful and inspiring week.There will be three sessions taking place each day at the following times: 10.30am Knock Basilica,4.30pm Knock Basilica,8.30pm (Examen) in the Apparition Chapel
SHANNONBRIDGE
Sat 9th July 7pm Vigil Mass John & Mary Claffey (Creevagh)
Mon 11th 10am
Tues 12th 10am
Wed 13th 10am
Thurs 14th 10am Private Intention
Fri 15th 10am
Sat 16th 7pm Vigil Mass Vera Carty (Months Memory)
CLONFANLOUGH
Sunday 10th July 10:30am Concepta Guinan (M/M/
Sunday 17th July 10:30am Annie (Birdie) Kelly & Husband Willie & deceased of Kelly family
CLUAIN CHIARAIN
Mass Wednesday, July 13th @ 7:30pm
OFFERTORY July 3rd €555
DEATHS Your prayers are asked for the repose of the soul of Michael Conneely late of Wood Quay Galway and London. (Brother of Brid Devine, Shannonbridge). Funeral arrangement later
MARRIAGE - Congratulations to Darragh Fitzgerald (Clonfanlough) & Sarah Fitzmaurice (Ferbane) who were married recently in Mullahoran.
FEAST DAYS for coming week
Mon 11th St. Benedict born in Nursia, Italy, became a hermit Monk, drew up a set of rules to guide monastic life. “The rule of St. Benedict” still remains the foundation of all communal living.
Wed 13th St. Henry born Bavaria 973 & became Holy Reoman Emperor 1014, Supported Church reform&missionary activity.
Thurs 14th St. Calillus of Lellis former soldier & lost all in gambling and riotous living. Converted at 25 (a sermon!). Twice rejected by the Capuchins due to his poor health, so he devoted his life to the care of the sick at San Giacomo-transformed the often brutal, inhuman & unsanitary practices with his Camillan brothers
Fri 15h St. Bonaventure famed teacher, philosopher & theologian. Regarded as the second founder of the Franciscan Order. Always insisted that the simple and uneducated could have a clearer knowledge of God than the wise.
Sat 16th Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel (Karem ’El) situated in Haifa Our Lady of Mount Carmel, through your example of humble docility to the will of God, we seek your intercession to make us more prayerful, more detached, more recollected, and more committed to whatever God asks of us
CLASSICAL & POPULAR MUSIC A night of classical and popular music featuring the Mulligan Sisters at St George’s Heritage and Visitor Centre in Carrick on Shannon on the 15th July 2022. Doors will open at 7:30 pm and show will start at 8pm.
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