Clonmacnois
Parish Newsletter
Sunday 2nd March 2014 – 8 A
Tel (090) 9674125. Email: jimboclonmacnois@gmail.com
Mass times: Shannonbridge:
Weekend, 8pm (Sat), & 12 noon, Sun;
Weekdays, 10am. Clonfanlough – Sunday, 10.30am
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Shannonbridge
Masses: Each day @ 10am; also on Ash Wed @ 8pm, with the blessing
& signing of Ashes. Adoration on
First Fri, 4-5pm
Last
Sunday's Offertory collection: €468.
Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: M.Darcy,
M.McManus, M.Murphy
Ministers of Holy
Communion:
Group 1
Readers
for next Weekend: Group 3, K.O’Connor, E.Quinn
Altar Servers for
this week:
Group 1, Stephanie, Jenny, Adam, Matthew
Mass
for the late Jerry Greene on next Sat eve
Anniversary
Mass for May Fitzgerald on next Sun
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Clonfanlough
Mass on Ash Wed @ 7pm with blessing & signing of
Ashes
Mass
on First Fri @ 7pm
Last
Sunday's Offertory collection: €282.
Many Thanks
Church Cleaners: K.Norton,
H.Darcy
Readers for next
Sunday:
A.Guinan
Altar Servers for
next Sunday: Group 1, Aaron, Conor x2, Eoin
Minister of Holy
Communion for next Sunday: N.O’Shea
First
Confession on Thurs next @ 7pm in Clonfanlough
Ash Wednesday, is the first day of Lent, the 40 days that
precedes Holy Week and Easter.
In the Christian Scriptures the number 40 relates to the period spent in
the Ark by Noah, the period spent by Israel seeking the Promised Land after the
Exodus, and the amount of time Jesus was in the Wilderness after his baptism
and prior to beginning his ministry. For us, the Season of Lent is an
invitation to 40 days of renewal ("Lent" means "spring"),
40 days to prepare ourselves to take in the Good News of Easter through deeper
disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Ashes are the traditional sign
of sorrow and repentance and are also a sign of "mortality".
Receiving the sacrament reminds us that God's love is triumphant over sin and
death, and that God remains "in communion" with us, that in Christ,
our mortality is overcome.
Rev
Richard Fairchild
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Ardagh &
Clonmacnois Pilgrimage to Lourdes, 27th May-1st
June
Flights
from Knock; fully inclusive price €699.
For
more info contact Joe Walsh Tours, tel. 01-2410812.
Email:
info@joewalshtours.ie
Pilgrimage
director is Fr B. Noonan; for the invalids, Fr M. Scanlon.
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HOLY LAND, 0CT 6-14TH 2014.
A local pilgrimage is being organised €1,295 (Marian Pilgrimages), 9
days, 8 nights, based in Tiberias & Bethlehem. Information from Fr Cox 086 8319500, Fr. MacKiernan
086 8323081
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Ard Chiaráin
Scripture
based Lenten Prayer, led by Fr Gerard McCarthy SVD, every Mon during Lent (except
17th March) @ 8pm. Suggested
donation €5.
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“Social Outing;
Ballinahown to Shannonbridge: bus running from Ballinahown to Shannonbridge
through Clonfanlough every Saturday Night starting Saturday 1st March. Pick up in Ballinahown at 9pm return pick up in Shannonbridge at 1am. Anyone
with interest in travelling please contact John on 0863651082.”
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Athlone
Parish Pilgrimage to Poland – 2nd – 9th June
For More info call
090-6472088. Price: €830, approx pps
Pilgrimage will
include visits to Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz-Birkenau
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