Hi everyone hope you all had a lovely Christmas 🎄 Just a reminder that Sunday 4th is another play & pray Mass. Hope to see you all there.

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             PARISH OF LISDOONVARNA, KILSHANNY, TOOVAHERA, AND DOOLIN. January 3/4, 2026.

A HAPPY AND BLESSED 2026 EVERYONE. MAY YOU LEAVE YOUR SORROWS BEHIND IN 2025!

Fr. Robert Mc Namara PP, 065 7074142, 087 0949030 lisdoonpp@galwaydiocese.ieLisdoonvarnaparish.ie

CORPUS CHRISTI, LISDOONVARNA 10am: David O' Connor, Luogh, Doolin. Anna and Joe Duffy, Chicago. Bridget O' Donohue, 1st anniversary.

Next week: Lena and Patrick Vaughan, Rooska, and the deceased of the O' Brien family, Ballydonohue.

7pm Saturday evening Masses in January:

Doolin, January 3rd: Nora O' Leary, Boherboy. Gerrry and Teresa Griffin, Ballyvara. Mary, Michael, Paddy, Eugene, and Margaret Fitzgerald, Doonmacfelim.

Kilshanny, January 10th: Diane Mc Mahon, First anniversary. Patrick and Mary Thynne. Andrew and Nora Thynne. Geraldine Kelly, Slievenagry, First anniversary.

Toovahera, January 17th: no booking as yet.

THANKYOU FOR LAST WEEK'S COLLECTION: €655, and the Christmas Dues of €5765. Sincere thanks for your support of Fr. Robert and of the parish.

TAP AND GO SYSTEM: we have introduced a tap and go facility for parish offerings. The unit is located in the front porch of Corpus Christi Church, Lisdoonvarna. Thank you very much to the Parish Finance Committee for their hard work on this. There are fixed amounts of €5, €10, €20, and €50, and also the option to choose your own amount. You can also request a receipt via email, which would be helpful if you are availing of the CHY Charitable Rebate Scheme from Revenue. Donations go into the number one Church Maintenance Account, for the heating, lighting, insuring and general upkeep of our four heritage churches.

SINCERE THANKS to Mary Howley for her most generous gift of church flowers for Christmas, and to Dermot Dooley for the arrangements. Thank you so much to anyone who helps in any way, and for your lovely Christmas cards, Mass bouquets, and Christmas gifts to Fr Robert.

THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD ends the Jubilee Year of Hope inaugurated by our late beloved Pope Francis; the bed of heaven to him. This is a holy day of obligation. Vigil Mass on Monday evening, January 5th, in Lahinch at 7pm; morning Mass in Lisdoonvarna at 9.30am on Tuesday, January 6th.

NEXT CHILDREN'S ROSARY: this Sunday night, January 4th, at 6pm in Lisdoonvarna church.

AT THE END OF THE YEAR, BY FR JOHN O'DONOGHUE:

As the year draws to its end, we give thanks for the gifts it brought and how they became inlaid within, where neither time nor tide can touch them.

Days when beloved faces shone brighter with light from beyond themselves, and from the granite of some secret sorrow, a stream of buried tears loosened.

We bless this year for all we learned, for all we loved and lost, and for the quiet way it brought us nearer to our invisible destination.

A BEAUTIFUL BLESSING FROM THE BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE BIBLE:

May the Lord bless you and keep you, may the Lord let His face shed its light upon you, may the Lord lift up His countenance to you, and give you His peace. Amen.