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   PARISH OF LISDOONVARNA, KILSHANNY, TOOVAHERA, DOOLIN. September 12/13, 2026.

Fr. Robert McNamara PP, 065 7074142, 087 0949030

lisdoonpp@galwaydiocese.ie       Lisdoonvarnaparish.ie

Corpus Christi, Lisdoonvarna, 10am: Dr. Maura Lernihan. Michael and Delia Conlon, Ballinalacken. Michael Fitzgerald, 4 th anniversary. Teresa Flanagan, Rooska. Tom Scullane.

Next week: Brendan Hillary, Lisdoonvarna and USA. Gerard O' Loughlin, Kilmoon. Martin and Mary Rouine.

Ciaran Lotz. Bernard and Margaret Howley. Guss and Bernie Droney. Kathleen and Mick Danagher and baby Anne, Rooska. John-Joe Lyons and his daughter Mary Bethell, late of Poulnagun.

Our recently deceased: Noreen McNamara, Athenry, aunt of Fr. Robert.

Daily Masses are booked on condition that they may have to be moved in the event of a funeral. Thank you for your understanding and flexibility.

Welcome to all our September visitors. We hope you have an enjoyable, refreshing, and safe time.

Saturday evening 7pm Masses in September:

Kilshanny 12 th : Johnny O' Driscoll, Ballyalla, 2 nd anniversary, and deceased family members. Michael Nestor, Caheramore. Paddy Williams, 2 nd anniversary, and deceased family members. Margaret, Brendan, and Patrick O'Looney and deceased family members, Wingfield. This Mass will be celebrated in Kilshanny cemetery, weather permitting.

Toovahera 19 th : Michael Healy, Ballyhenna, Lisdoonvarna. Gerry Davoren, Ballyconnoe. This Mass will be celebrated in Kilmoon cemetery, weather permitting.

Thank you for last week's collection: €1402. Thanks, everyone.

There is a Mary's Meals church-gate collection this weekend. This is a great no-frills charity which focuses on providing one hot meal a day for a school-going child in a developing country, thereby enabling them to climb out of the poverty trap using the ladder of education.

Sincere thanks to those of you who attended the funeral of my Aunt Noreen in Athenry. It was so kind of you and most unexpected. Thank you very much from all the Mc Namara family. This shows the warmth and love of the North Clare people. Thank you also to those who sent messages of condolence.

Fr. Robert will be in Medjugorje from October 14-21. Please write out any prayers you want left on top of Cross Mountain.

Speakers from the National Apostolate of Adoration will speak at Masses on the weekend of November 7/8 with the aim of refreshing and enhancing Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in the parish.

Lisdoonvarna Failte/Town Team events: Lisdoonvarna Fringe Festival beginning with Culture Night in the Pavilion on Friday, September 18 th . Lisdoonvarna Tractor Fest, including vintage farm machinery and vehicles, on Sunday, October 14 th . Surprisingly, no one has taken up Fr. Robert's offer to drive one of the tractors!