Parish Newsletter
August 17/18
Parish
The Parish of Lisdoonvarna, Kilshanny, Doolin & Toovahera
Author
Very Rev. Robert McNamara PP
Mass Offerings
OUR LADY OF LOURDES, TOOVAHERA: pro populo.
ST. AUGUSTINE’S, KILSHANNY 7pm: Tim Dowling. Bridie Lambert nee Callahan.
NEXT WEEK: Brigid “Biddy” Neylon, Anniversary.
HOLY ROSARY, DOOLIN 10am: Pat, Margaret, and Brud Petty, Ballyreen. Paddy and Marie Guerin, Doolin and Dublin, 11th Anniversary.
CORPUS CHRISTI, LISDOONVARNA 11:30am: Eileen and Joe Williams, Nan and Bill Kearney. Thomas and Mary Hawes. 9:30am Mass, Thursday 22nd, young David Droney, Aughiskamore.
Our Recently deceased: Mary Deely nee Flanagan, Corkscrew Hill. Chris Aitken, Australia, late husband of Bernadette O’ Donoghue, Gortown, Kilshanny. Patrick Browne, Doolin and Castlegregory, Co. Kerry. Terry McGann, Kilfenora, brother of Teresa Linnane, Aran View, Doolin.
Parish News
THANK YOU FOR LAST WEEK’S COLLECTION: €1551
THIS YEAR’S PARISH PILGRIMAGE to Medjugorje will leave please God from Shannon airport on Wednesday, August 28th to Wednesday, September 4th. There will be no Masses on the weekdays.Weekend Masses will be celebrated by Fr. Denis Luddy (Redemptorist Father). In case of emergency, please contact Fr. Richard Flanagan in Ballyvaughan on 0860235313. If you have any petitions or prayer intentions please write them down,put them in a sealed envelope, and give them to me, and I will leave them with Our Lady.
TO BOOK MASSES: please text Mary on 0868236596 or myself. The newsletter for the weekend we are away will be prepared early, so please text us early for Mass intentions. During that weekend you can also pop in to Fr. Denis before the Mass and ask him to include your loved ones. He is from Cork so don’t mention the All-Ireland.
HOLY MASS AT ST. AUGUSTINE’S WELL, KILSHANNY: this year will be on Tuesday, Aug 27th at 7pm (feast of St. Monica,Augustine’s long-suffering mammy), as we will be going to Medjugorje on the following day. We will move to Kilshanny church in case of inclement weather.
KILSHANNY CHURCH RENOVATION: Fergus Merriman,heritage engineer, visited during the week, and will give an overview of the works needed.
LISMORAHAUN SINGERS begin weekly choir practice on Tuesday, September 10th at St. John’s Hall, Ballyvaughan from 7:15pm to 9:15 pm. New members welcome. Ability to read music not essential. Call Anne on 089 2421645 or email lismorahaun.secretary@gmail.com I have yet to meet a Clare person who cannot sing or play an instrument.
DIOCESES OF GALWAY/CLONFERT YOUNG ADULT CROAGH PATRICK CLIMB: Sunday, August 24. Call 091 563566 or email info@galwaydiocese.ie
LISDOONVARNA FAILTE EVENTS: Walking tours with Keelan every Saturday at 12 noon from the Pavilion. €15 per person. Pre-loved clothes pop up shop for jewellery, clothes or shoes you wish to sell on, Pavilion, Sunday, 15 September. Christmas Fayre this year will be on the November 30th/December 1st weekend in the Pavilion, featuring Santa and Mrs Claus. Stalls can be booked. Nordic walking classes starting soon at the Pavilion, €25 for 8 weeks. Information for all of the above at admin@lisdoonvarnafailte.ie
SUM OF MONEY FOUND after Mass last Sunday in Lisdoonvarna. Please enquire for more details.
THE PRAYER READ AT STAN’S FUNERAL BY HIS NEPHEW JOE: The Lord says: why do you confuse yourselves by worrying? Leave the care of your affairs to me and everything will be peaceful. I say to you in truth that every act of true, blind, complete surrender to me produces the effect that you desire and resolves all difficult situations.
EXPERIENCE LOURDES AT HOME: From September 5-8, the relics of St. Bernadette of Lourdes will visit our diocese. More information to follow. A lovely family treat would be to watch The Song of Bernadette movie. It’s really moving to think how young people like Saints Bernadette of Lourdes, Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia of Fatima, Faustina of Poland, our new 14-year-old St.Jose Sanchez del Rio of Mexico, to mention but a few, were all victims of jealousy and ridicule, but proven right in the end. If your conscience is clear before God,nothing can touch you.