I was deeply touched and profoundly impressed by the outpouring of prayer and care

for young Harry O’ Dwyer from Kilshanny. Thank you to everyone involved. Please God the Lord and His

Blessed Mother will continue the healing process, and bless and strengthen Harry’s family. Let’s pray indeed

for all our sick at home, in hospitals, hospices, and nursing-homes, and those who care for them.

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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK this year will be held next week, beginning on Sunday 21 st . Thank God for our

wonderful primary and secondary school communities: school staff, students, Boards of Management, and

parents. God bless all the wonderful work that is done there, often seen only by the Good Lord. The theme for

this year is: Communities of Service: serving your friends, serving your school community, serving your family,

serving your local community, serving your church community.

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GUEST SPEAKER NEXT WEEKEND: next weekend our guest speaker at all Masses will be Mrs. Patricia Friel,

manager of the Mary’ Meals charity in Ireland. This wonderful charity’s aim is very simple: to give a school-

going child in a developing country one hot meal a day, in order to help continue their education. Patricia will

also be speaking in Mary Immaculate Secondary School.

SAY A LITTLE PRAYER for Martin Doran, our voluntary sacristan in Lisdoonvarna church. Martin has had a bad

fall, and will be out of action for a few weeks. We wish Martin every blessing and a speedy recovery.

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FROM THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: The Corporal Works of Mercy are based on the last

judgment scene in Matthew 25: feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the

sick and imprisoned, and burying the deceased. (Paragraph 2447)

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FIRST HOLY COMMUNION AND CONFIRMATION: The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated in Holy

Rosary Church, Doolin, on Thursday, April 11 th , 2024. First Holy Communion will be celebrated in Doolin

Church on Saturday, April 27 th , 2024, at 11am, and in Lisdoonvarna on Saturday, May 4th , 2024 at 11am. Next

weekend, please God, we would like to welcome in a special way to the four weekend Masses all the above

candidates and their families.

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Lord, renew in me the grace of my own First Communion, the time when you first took up residence in the

house of my soul. Lord I repent of the times since then that I received you absent-mindedly, disrespectfully,

even with serious sin on my soul. Give me the grace to press the delete button on my past, with the grace of a

good confession, and make of my soul once again a worthy dwelling-place for You, the Lord of all creation,

Who, in this little white Host, gives me Your very self as food for the journey of life. Amen.