Parish Newsletter
June 8/9
Parish
The Parish of Lisdoonvarna, Kilshanny, Doolin & Toovahera
Author
Very Rev. Robert McNamara PP
Mass Offerings
Holy Mass is celebrated daily at 9:30am in Corpus Christi Church, Lisdoonvarna, except for Wednesdays at 7pm. There is no 9:30am Mass the morning of a funeral. The Wednesday evening Mass is preceded by a Medjugorje-style holy hour of Adoration of Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament, beginning at 6pm with Our Lady’s Holy Rosary, and ending just before Mass with traditional benediction and individual blessings with the Blessed Sacrament. This is a lovely quiet oasis of prayer at mid-week.
Our Lady of Lourdes, Toovahera 5pm: pro populo. NEXT WEEK: John Joe Kerin, 3rd Anniversary.
St. Augustine’s, Kilshanny 7pm: Paul Hynes, Smithstown. NEXT WEEK: Martin Davoren. George and Annie Blood.
Holy Rosary, Doolin 10am: pro populo. NEXT WEEK: Donal O’Loughlin, Ballaghaline.
Corpus Christi, Lisdoonvarna, 11.30am: pro populo. 7pm Mass Wed 12th: Bridget Griffin, 1st Anniversary.
Our recently deceased: Christy O’Brien, Ballinahuon
Parish News
Thank you for last week’s collection: €1277.
BEST OF LUCK and every blessing to our Leaving and Jnr Cert candidates. May the Holy Spirit light their way, may Our Lady be at their side, and may Blessed Carlo Acutis mind them. Thank you to all the parents, guardians, and school staff who have walked this far with them.
MASS FOR HEALING, ESPECIALLY OF ADDICTION: Through the intercession of Venerable Matt Talbot, Wednesday, 7pm, Lisdoonvarna church, including the Sacrament of Holy Anointing of the Sick. Addiction comes in many forms; addiction to alcohol, drugs,pornography, to name but a few, and can really blight our lives and the lives of others. One inspirational man who has been declared Venerable by the Church and to whom we can pray in this regard is Matt Talbot, a Dublin working man who died in 1925. One night, Matt hadn’t a shilling, and was waiting outside a pub to meet some lads going in who might invite him for a pint. None of them did,so he went home to his mother and told her he was “taking the pledge.” He did,and stuck at it, although it wasn’t easy. He couldn’t have done it without that supernatural strength called God’s amazing grace. Here are a couple of his sayings: “never be too hard on the man who can’t give up the drink. It’s as hard to give up the drink as it is to raise the dead again. But both are possible and even easy for Our Lord. We have only to depend on Him.” “Three things I cannot escape: the eye of God, the voice of conscience, the stroke of death. In company, guard your tongue. In your family, guard your temper. When alone, guard your thoughts.”
RELAY FOR LIFE CLARE: Irish Cancer Society, June 15/16, Tim Smythe Park, Ennis.