Clonmacnois Parish Bulletin September 25th 2022

 

Clonmacnois Parish

September 25th 2022

Twenty-Sixth 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)

 SHANNONBRIDGE Sat 24th  7pm Vigil Mass Tom (23rd),, Kay (4th) &  Marion (2nd)Donegan  anniv.

Mon Sept 26th  10am Mass

Tues Sept 27th 10am Mass

Wed Sept 28th 10am Service (T.B.C.)

Thurs Sept 29th 10am Mass

Fri Sept 30th 10am Mass

Sat 1st October 7pm Teresa Rocke & dec’d family members

CLONFANLOUGH

Sun 25th Sept 10:30am Elizabeth (4th) & Paul Goode & Pat McKenna (22nd)

Fri Sept 30th 7:30pm Larry & Brigid Rohan Anniv.

Sun Oct 2nd 10:30am

CLUAIN CHIARAIN                         Next Mass Wed., 28th Sept @ 7:30pm

OFFERTORY  Sept 17/18  €640

Harvest Dues to date €1130

Feast Days for coming week

Feast Days for coming week

Mon. 26 September: Ss Cosmas and Damian. Martyrs in the early church in Syria

Tuesday 27 Sept: St Vincent de Paul (1580-1660) He noted for his charitable work in the poor parishes of Paris.

Wed. 28 September: St. Wencelaus. Ss Lawrence Ruiz and Companions.

Thurs. 29 September: Ss Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. (Archangels)  Angels-messengers from God- appear frequently in scripture, but only these three are named.

Fri. 30 September: St Jerome (340-420) translated the bible into latin and wrote commentaries on scripture.

Sat 1st Oct Prayer to  St. Thérese of Lisieux  -  A prayer for hope and peace

O Little Therese of the Child Jesus, please pick for me a rose/ from the heavenly gardens and send it to me as a message of love./ O Little Flower of Jesus, ask God to grant the favours/ I now place with confidence in your hands…/ (mention in silence here)/ St. Therese, help me to always believe as you did in God’s great love for me, so that I might imitate your “Little Way” each day. Amen

MINISTRIES

Readers: 1/10/22 @7pm Isobel Claffey (SB)/ 02/10/22 @10:30am Ann Guinan  (Cf)

Communion 1/10/22 @7pm Dympna Fitzpatrick 02/10/22@10:30am Declan McEvoy  Church Care  Dympna Fitzpatrick, Dympna O’Carroll, Linda Moran  SB:Eithne Rohan/Della Fitzgerald (Oct) (CF) Counters: S’bridge (Oct)

 

 

 MEALS ON WHEELS If anyone would like to receive the Community  Dinners. Call 087 2410587 for details

PILATES CLASS Shannonbridge Hall. Thursdays 11am 087 2410587

DOON/SHANNONBRIDGE GAA LOTTERY Draw 19/9/22 numbers drawn 8-11-15-24 No winner. Three Match 3.  Jackpot €10,600

Congratulations to the Naomh Ciaran u14 girls who won their county final earlier. Special mention to the three Shannonbridge representatives: Ruth Quirke, Aoife Flannery and Isobel Claffey

HIGH STREET/BELMONT WOMEN’S GROUP - would like to thank all who helped in any way with the Irish Cancer Society Daffodil Day. Final figure raised this year was £6,000.

COFFEE MORNING  in aid of East Galway & Midlands Cancer Support Centre L.P.I, Ireland hosted by Kevin & Mary Flynn in their home on Ballydangan on Friday Sept 30th from 10a.m

SUNDAY EVENING  MASS IN CLONFERT starting  on Sunday October 2nd at 6:30pm followed by Rosary & Benediction.

OFFALY LGFA FUNDRAISER THANK YOU. A word of thanks to everyone for all who supported our Shannonbridge/Offaly representatives (Isobel Claffey, Teagan Daly, Ellie McEvoy & Sasha Coleman) for the Saturday 24th September fundraiser walk (Croke Park t0 Bretland Park) to purchase the grounds of Bretland Park.  In these times it is very much appreciated.

PATRICK FEENEY in  Concert in Moore Hall on Thurs Oct 20th at 8pm  Tickets €15 Available  09096 73538 (9am-3pm) Also on door.

NEW SERVERS:  Young people from 3rd class upwards are invited to become servers in the Cathedral. Consent forms are available in  the      Sacristy . I have already been to our school speaking about this and issuing forms.

BOOKING MASSES: The Mass Intentions Diary for 2023 is available.

Coastal Rosary for Faith & Life in Ireland: On Sunday October 9th, the annual Coastal Rosary will take place at 2.30pm. Join thousands of people from around Ireland to pray the Rosary for Life and Faith at our coasts, grottos, rivers, churches, and other suitable places. Simply sign up Rosary location at www. coastalrosaryireland.ie or text your location to 087 278 6552

SUNDAY FOR MIGRANTS  & REFUGEES

Today the Church remembers Migrants and Refugees. In his pastoral letter Pope Francis reminded us that Jesus always considered himself among the strangers and the outcasts. He said Jesus wishes us to recognise Him in the migrants, fugitives, exiles, the dispossessed and in the stranger. For many months we have seen thousands of people, women, men and children, fleeing their countries because of wars and persecution. We were saddened by the pictures of refugees published in the media and their suffering goes on. We can recite this prayer for them: Lord, be present to migrants and all those dispossessed. Be present to those who cannot be with their own people. Be present to those who long to see even one friendly face. Be among those who yearn for a warm greeting Help us to reach out to your people to create a just world for all. Amen

 

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.

  

 Dear Fellow Traveller, Reflecting on Queen Elizabeth’s funeral one would have to be impressed by the genuine sense of respect and sadness felt by the ordinary people as well as the drama and ceremonial pomp of all the marching bands . I think it is true to say that the need for ritual to mark a death has been with us since before religion came along. It is hard-wired into the human psyche to yearn for something special when a life comes to an ends. Religions to give them credit, – consciously or not – have developed theologies and funeral rituals around the urge people have to mark the ending of a life. so successfully that in our secular times, while notions of heaven and hell are increasingly neglected, a funeral still retains a special power in moments of pain and loss. The arrangements around the Queen’s Funeral gave many people time and space to reflect on death by just being, in the presence of her coffin, whether in great halls or from the roadside as the coffin passed by inside a hearse. Loss and grief comes to us all eventually, and to stand next to a coffin and avoid thinking about death, – the one thing that we all have in common, is a rarity. However much we feel in the peak of life, with full diaries and every possibility in front of us, the ritual of attending a funeral – or watching one on our screens – is both an unconditional invitation to reflect on our own mortality, and an opportunity to recall those who have gone from our lives, to mourn them afresh. Grief for those we loved, and the space they filled in our lives, never ever fully goes away. Seamus Heaney put it this way as he was present at his mothers bedside as she slipped away — We all knew that by being there - the Space in which you stood in had been emptied , emptied into us to keep. Grief is something we just get used to living with it, learning to shed our tears for lost parents, siblings, partners, children, friends, in private rather than in public. When we can top that sense of loss with Christian hope and faith - the hope that we will meet again, it gives us the strength to go on and live our own lives and work at fulfilling our own mission in this earthly world, as long as we can. I recall John Donnes few lines — Bring us, o Lord God, at our last awakening into the house and gate of Heaven, to enter into that gate and dwell in that house, where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light; no noise nor silence, but one equal music; no fears or hopes, but one equal possession; no ends or beginnings, but one equal eternity, in the habitations of they glory and dominion, world without end. Amen .

 

 

 

 

TWENTY SIXTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR

‘At his gate there lay a poor man called Lazarus’.

 The sin of the rich man in today’s Gospel is the sin of omission. It’s not that he did something wrong. He just did nothing. His wealth blinded him to the fact that a poor man lay at his gate. His indifference calls to mind the age-old adage: ‘to close one’s heart is to begin to die; to open one’s heart is to begin to live’. It is not without significance that the poor man Lazarus is the only person to be named in all the parables of Jesus. The poor are always close to His heart. On the other hand the rich man has no name because that is all he was-just a rich man! If you make wealth your very identity and something takes the money away, there is no ‘you’ left. We had better take notice. We are indeed called to be our brother’s and our sister’s keepers. In a world where a child dies from malnutrition every two seconds, the image of the parable should disturb us. The poor are still at the gate. How we treat them will determine the kind of welcome we will receive at another gate!