Clonmacnois Parish
July 21st 2024
Sixteenth Sunday (B)
Fr. Tom Cox (Adm) Tel. 090 9674125/ 086-8319500
Email: clonmacnoiseparish@gmail.com
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SHANNONBRIDGE N37 FV05
Sat 20th July 7pm Peoples Intention
Mon 22nd July 10 Mass
Tues 23rd July 10 Mass
Wed 24th July 10 Mass
Thurs 25th July No Mass
Fri 26th July10 Mass
Sat 27th July 7pm Celebrant Bishop Paul
-Brian & Josephine Kenny (Clondelara)
- Edward & Margaret Cogivan; Bernard, Peggy & Brendan & dec’d family members
CLONFANLOUGH N37 XR81
Sun 21st July 10:30am
-Paddy Brazil (Clongowney)
-Annie “Birdie” Kelly & husband Willie & dec’d members of family
Sun 28th July 10:30am
CLUAIN CHIARAIN Mass 124h July @ 7:30pm
OFFERTORY July 14th €880 Shrine €75 (Total €955)
Thank you for your financial support. You can also support using electronic transfer if it is more convenient. Bank details are :
Clonmacnois Parochial Account.
BIC-BOFIIE2DXXX
IBAN-IE90BOFI90368011629381
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FEASTDAYS FOR COMING WEEK
Monday 22nd July—St. Mary Magdalene St. Mary Magdalene stood by the Cross of Jesus; with two other women she discovered the empty tomb; she was granted an appearance of the Risen Lord early the dame day, from which incident she has been described as ‘the apostle to the apostles’. Tuesday 23rd July—St. Bridget of Sweden St. Bridget was born in Sweden in 1303. She brought up eight children, after the death of her husband dedicated herself to an ascetical life. Later she founded the Bridgettine Order and lived in Rome. She wrote many works about her mystical experiences. She died in Rome in 1373. She was declared a patron of Europe in 2000. St. Sharbel Makhluf—Wednesday 24th July St. Sharbel Makhluf became a monk at the monastery of St. Maron at Annaya and was ordained in 1859. He became a hermit from 1875 until his death in 1898. He was much sought after for counsel and blessing and has a personal devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Thursday 25th July—St. James St. James, son of Zebedee and brother, called the Greater. He was put to death by Herod Agrippa about the year 44, being the first of the Apostles to die for Christ.
July 29th Clonmacnois Cemetery Clean up 7pm
PASTORAL LETTER of Bishop Paul available in the Porches. Please take a copy home
Diocese of Ardagh & Clonmacnois.
Diocesan Changes 2024.
On September 1st 2016 I began a 5 year appointment as Administrator of this parish. Due to Covid and a change of Bishop those 5 years became 8 happily! However as of Friday, July 12th last Bishop Paul Connell confirmed that he wishes me to take on as Parish Priest of Kilronan Parish beginning August 24th. . It’s in North Roscommon right on the Leitrim border, adjoining Drumshanbo. My Clonmacnois Predecessor Fr. Sam Holmes was there in 2008 and my Ferbane parish predecessor Fr. Sean Tynan also. It will be very new to me after 15 years in West Offaly. I don’t know anyone there. I thank you for your patience, courtesy and immense help and ask that you simply pray for me . I have known Fr. Alanga who comes here in my place since 2006 and he is my friend. A very good, humble man. He is on a break for a year from Pankshin, Northern Nigeria. We are so lucky to have him in this parish as a glance at the following appointments will show that a further 3 parishes are without a a resident priest making it 6 out of 41 in that situation. With a further five served by men over 75 years of age.
Fr Patrick Lennon, PP Dromard to retire.
Fr Cathal Faughnan, PP Kilronan, (Keadue, Arigna & Ballyfarnan) to retire.
Fr Tom Cox, Adm Clonmacnois, appointed PP Kilronan, (Keadue, Arigna & Ballyfarnan).
Fr. Peter Burke, PP Ferbane appointed also Adm. Clonmacnois, Shannonbridge & Clonfanlough.
Fr. Michael Alanga, Diocese of Pankshin, Nigeria to be CC Clonmacnois, Shannonbridge & Clonfanlough.
Fr Simon Cadam, PP Granard appointed also Adm. Abbeylara.
Fr. P. J. Hughes, PP Mullahoran &Loughduff appointed PP Dromard.
Fr. Joe McGrath, CC Mount Temple appointed Adm. Mullahoran.
Fr. Reji Kurian, CC Ballinahown appointed CC Moate & Mount Temple.
Fr. Charlie Healy, PP Carrickedmond & Abbeyshrule appointed CC St. Mary’s Athlone.
Fr. Liam Murray, PP Ballymahon appointed also Adm. Carrickedmond &; Abbeyshrule.
Fr. Vincent Connaughton, PP Ardagh & Moydow appointed also Adm. Legan.
ANNUAL DIOCESAN PRILGRIMAGE TO KNOCK will take place on Sunday 1 st September
Parish Pattern Day Mon Sept 9th @7pm Clonmacnois Pattern Day Sun Sept 15th@3pm
SHANNONBRIDGE/DOON G.A.A. LOTTO
July 15th ’24 Draw Results Numbers drawn 10-13-22-26
No Winner, Three Match 3. Jackpot now €10,000. Next draw 22/7/25
MINISTRIES Readers: 27/7/24 @7pm Eileen Quinn (SB) 28/7/24 :10:30am Anne Rohan (CF) Communion 27/7/24 @7pm Marian McManus 28/7/24 @10:30 Bridie Coughlan Church Care E Quinn, D. Deeley, V. Hynes (SB) Niamh Egan, Anne Rohan (CF) (July) Counters Clonfanlough (July) Servers; 27/7/24 @7pm H& E Mitchell (SB) 28/7/24 @ 10:30am T & J Rohan, K&K Kelly
CLONFANLOUGH HALL (N37 Y2P8)
Preloved Toy and Book Sale at Clonfanlough Hall
Join us for a fun-filled Preloved Toy and Book Sale at Clonfanlough Hall on Sunday, 21st July from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Donations of toys and books in good condition are welcome and can be dropped off at Clonfanlough Hall on Friday, 19th July from 4pm to 7pm and Saturday, 20th July from 10 am to 2 pm
Community Dinners: If you would like to avail of meals delivered to you on Mondays and Wednesdays. Contact 087 2410587
SATURDAY JULY 27th 7p.m. Will see us welcome Bishop Paul Connell to say Mass in our parish
16th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
‘You must come away to some lonely place’
Jesus invites His friends to come aside to a lonely place to rest a while. He understood the importance of having rhythm and balance in life. He was teaching them that no fruitful work is possible without the practice of solitude. If they are to journey out to others they must first make the journey inwards to regain their perspective and recharge their spirit. Solitude is the ordeal that gives us the right to speak. Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary General of the United Nations extolled the necessity of solitude in these memorable words: ‘Speak only outof silence; act only out of stillness’. It is out of silence and solitude that worship springs. The cultivation of a healthy silence is of the essence if the celebration of the Eucharist
on the Lord’s Day is to have meaning. The ‘little encounters’ during the week prepare the ground for the ‘great encounter’ on the ‘Day of the Sun’. These ‘little encounters’ or ‘minute vacations’ can happen over a cup of coffee in the early morning or in a quiet corner of the house when the family has gone to bed. The important thing is to find that sanctuary place each day where God canspeak to the heart. God is the friend of silence.‘You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind’.
EXTRACT FROM PASTORAL LETTER from Bishop Paul... The model of church we have at present cannot continue. We simply do not have the numbers of priests and religious necessary to sustain it. There has been and will be a continual decline in the number of our full time priests and religious and the reality is that in the very near future your parish may not have a resident priest, or if you have, then your priest may be called upon to provide pastoral care in a neighbouring parish that does not have.
BURIALS IN CLONMACNOIS FROM ALL PARISHES
While every effort has been made to print an accurate list of burials since our last gathering– there may be an error. Please review and let me know.
(Clonmacnois Parish deaths in heavy print)
Teresa Egan Bloomhill 18/7.23
Seamus (Jimmy) Galvin Clonaderig 27/7/23
Mary Allen (Shanonbridge) 9/8/23
Aidan Farrell Clonaderig12/8/23
John Bogan Enfield 12/8/23
Ethna Daly Ballinahowen 1/9/23
Kieran Rigney Rashina 20/9/23
Daniel Farrelly Shannonbridge 28/9/23
Celine Grennan 13 October 2023
Kathleen Darcy (Clonascra)30/10/23
Elizabeth (Lily)Flannery Ballinasloe 18/11/23
Oliver T. Egan (Maynooth) 5/12/23
Oliver Spain (Clonaderig)6/12/23
Christopher Mooney (Athlone) 9/12/23
Michael O’Brien (Fardrum) 8/12/23
*Michael Fitzpatrick 10th December 2023 (interred elsewhere)
Annie Anderson (Creevagh) 1/1/24
Demot (Derry) Killeen (Shannonbridge) 18/1/24
Josephine Egan (Maynooth) 30/1/24
Joseph O’Leary (Clonascra) 17/2/24
Martha Donegan (Shannonbridge) 20/11/23
Patricia Canny (Sheffield )24/2/24
Winifred Robinson (Gorey)4/4/24
Jimmy Fox (Roscarn Ballinasloe) 9/4/24
Bernadette Kenny (Serenity Lodge) 24/4/24
Martin Ryan (Bloomhill) 20/5/24
Aidan Duffy (Skerries)15/5/24
Thomas McEvoy (Clonascra) 15/6/24
Mary Healy (Serenity Lodge) 19/6/24
Martin Donegan Nov 20th 2023
CHURCH OF IRELAND PATTERN Sunday 28th July at 4p.m. Open Air Service at Temple Conor Clonmacnois N37 V2N2. All welcome
Neighbouring Cemetery Dates
High Street - Sunday 14th July, 12 noon
Gallen - Friday 26th July, 7pm
Creagh & Kilclooney Sunday: August 4th @ 3p.m. 4.30p.m. in Kilclooney
Parish Cemetery Masses
-Fri 2nd August 7pm in Mullinakill (Glebe)
-Sat August 3rd 7pm in Clonmacnois Cemetery
-Friday August 16th @7pm in Cloniffeen
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