Clonmacnois Parish
July 17th 2022
Sixteenth Sunday (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)
SIXTEENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
There are two types of hospitality: the hospitality of giving and the hospitality of presence. Both are important. Both are necessary. Martha in today’s Gospel is busy preparing a meal to welcome Jesus to her home. She is doing a beautiful deed. She represents the hospitality of giving. Mary, her sister, sits quietly and attentively at the feet of the Lord, listening to His words. She represents the hospitality of presence. Jesus commended Mary and assured her that she had ‘chosen the better part’. In so doing, He was not condemning Martha, but rather lauding the value of listening and silence in our everyday lives. Everything that’s created comes out of silence. God speaks most powerfully in the silence, but our world no longer hears Him because it is constantly speaking. He gets lost in the noise. The challenge then for all of us is to create ‘Mary moments’ in a ‘Martha world’. Creating moments of ‘nondoing’ each day is essential nourishment for the soul. Mary chose the better part
SHANNONBRIDGE
Sat 16th 7pm Vigil Mass Vera Carty (Months Memory)
Mon. 18th 10am Service
Tues 19th 10am
Wed 20th 10am
Thurs 21st 10am
Fri 22nd 10am
Sat 23rd 7pm Vigil Mass Thomas & Mary Coleman & dec’ family member
CLONFANLOUGH
Sunday 17th July 10:30am Annie (Birdie) Kelly & Husband Willie & deceased of Kelly family
Sunday 24th 10:30am Mary Kelly (Carrowkeel)
CLUAIN CHIARAIN
Mass Wednesday, July 20th @ 7:30pm
OFFERTORY July 10th €550
FEAST DAYS for coming week
July 22nd St Mary Magdalen She stood by the cross of Jesus. With two other women she discovered the empty tomb. She has been described as ‘the Apostle to the Apostles’
July 23rd St Bridget of Sweden (1303-1370) She reared eight children. Later she founded the Bridgetine Order after the death of her husband. She is one of the patrons of Europe.
SUMMER SOUNDS
-“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” — Katie Lee.
-“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” – Sam Keen.
-“When I feel the heat, I see the light.” - Everett Dirksen
-“But tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” – The Beatles
-“I’m glad it’s finally hot enough to complain about how hot it is.” - Salman Rushdie
-“It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.”- Anne Fadiman.
-“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.” – Jane Austen
-If I don’t make it to heaven, at least I know what hell feels like with this heat!” - April Mae Monterrosa.
- What grows best in the heat: fantasy, unreason, lust.” - Salman Rushdie
We labour to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitor, we rush to turn it back into a house. Robert Brault
Amen
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 (June 1-Aug 13th) available. Further information contact Lough Derg Office info@loughderg.org
LIBERTY HOMECARE - At Liberty Homecare our community support workers change people’s lives every day, their daily support allows our clients to remain happy at home. Join Liberty HomeCare and start your homecare career today. Call us at 01 4163717, WhatsApp Rachel on 085 253 3891 or check out our facebook page below. https://www. facebook.com/libertyhomecareireland
CONCERT Brendan Shine and Band in concert in the Shearwater Hotel Ballinasloe Thursday 28th July at 8pm. Tickets are €25 and available from the Hotel, Naughtons Shop and Millars Bar Ballydangan, online at www.buytickets.at/camcloonparentsassociation, or by calling 083-4257015 or 086-8773370. Proceeds raised are going to the Camcloon NS Play Area Development Fund. Looking forward to a great night of entertainment!!
The Better part?
-Time spent with people we love is time treasured in our memory In the time together love grows, friendships deepen and people come to mean more to each other.
-Time spent with each other in marriage is the place where we are worthwhile, valued, loved.
-Time spent with children is the place from which love’s energies extend and reach out to children.
-There are times when we must work for and with each other, when we must be busy, and there are times for being together.
-Time spent with God is like the time of Mary at the feet of Jesus; in the spaces of prayer love deepens in the heart, the warmth of God takes hold of the heart, and we are once again made whole.
This is the time - time spent with Jesus - when we can relax into the mystery of being loved, of being forgiven, being called, and of being totally held now and forever love
BEST WISHES to popular parishioner Padraig Henry who tells me he is retiring from work on Tuesday next 19th. We wish him the very best
DOON/SHANNONBRIDGE GAA LOTTERY Draw 11/7/22 2umbers drawn 6-13-22-24 No winner. Two Match 3. Jackpot now €8,600
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: 23/7/22 @7pm Rachael Carty (SB)/ 24/7/22 Noelle Daly (Cf) Communion John Mitchell 23/7/22 (7pm SB) Declan McEvoy 24/7/22 (10:30am Clonfanlough) Church Care Martha Murphy/Marie McManus SB:Niamh Egan/Anne Rohan (CF)
NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS PILGRIMAGE at the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock will once again be celebrated on the 24th of July,the Sun. closest to the Feast of Saint Joachim and St. Anne, grandparents of Jesus as the the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. Please contact Connie at catholicgrandparents@gmail.com – phone number 085 8704722. Grandparents are the footsteps to the future generations." - Author Unknown
Prayer for the second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly I give thanks to you, Lord, for the blessing of a long life For, to those who take refuge in You, Grant always to bear fruit. Forgive, O Lord, resignation and disillusionment, but forsake me not when my strength declines. Teach me to look with hope to the future you give me, to the mission you entrust to me and to sing your praises without end. Make me a tender craftsman of Your revolution, to guard with love my grandchildren and all the little ones who seek shelter in You. Protect, O Lord, Pope Francis and grant thy Church to deliver the world from loneliness. Direct our steps in the way of peace. Amen.
STREAMING PROBLEMS After 2.5 years my faithful MEVO mobile streaming camera has given up. So I’ve a new one on order arriving 20th . (At “only” €350 full stop. MEVO was far less than a fixed €4,000 fixed webcam with monthly €200 running costs as in other churches.). I experience a poor network in Clonfanlough Church area with 1-2mb network speed. I’d welcome any advice to overcome that.
YOUTH 2000 SUMMER FESTIVAL Join over 1000 young people between 16 and 35 this August at the Youth 2000 Summer Festival. The festival takes place in Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co Kildare, from Thursday 11th August to Sunday 14th August 2022. For more information go to www.youth2000.ie
18-22 Looking for a Gap Year? Castlerigg Manor is a Catholic youth retreat centre located in Keswick in the English Lake District. Our work is mostly done by a team of young Catholics who live together as part of a community. We are still looking for people to start the coming year in mid-August, so if you're at a loose end and want an amazing, fruitful year, maybe this is for you? It's a voluntary year but food, accommodation and pocket money are provided. To find out more, contact jack@castleriggmanor.co.uk or google Castlerigg Manor.
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