Quin Clooney Maghera Parish Notes 21st April 2019 - Easter Sunday - Alleluia! Alleluia! He Is Risen! Alleluia!

Daily Mass: (Quin) Mon: 11am Tues-Fri: 9.30am

Offertory Donations: From 3 churches €1035 + €245 via Ennis. Tellers (Quin) April 28th Antoinette Leamy & Emma Maher.

Pray & Play: April 28th Team Five: Pauline Hoey, Nicola Killeen, Edwina McCarthy.

Education Fund Appeal: This Special Collection is being taken up this weekend. It is our annual appeal to help ed-ucate students studying for the Priesthood. This special (pink) envelope is in your box of envelopes. Please pray for Antun and Vincent, our two students who are currently discerning their vocations.

Trócaire: We thank all who have returned their Trocaire boxes thus far and have contributed to this year's Tro-caire Collection. If you missed the Trocaire collection There is a special envelope (purple) in your box of enve-lopes. You are more than welcome to place this special envelope in the Sunday Collection basket. We thank you for your great support to Trocaire. Parish Council: Will meet Wednesday 1st May at 8pm in the meeting room above Quin Sacristy. All members are invited to attend and new members welcome. Clooney-Spancilhill Community Spring Clean day: Saturday April 27th at 11am, meeting at Clooney Church. All ages welcome, bring a high vis vest and help tackle the rubbish on our roads! Newly Baptised: We welcomed into the Christian Community recently through the Sacrament of Baptism:

Sadie Anne Gorman, Frank Eamon Browne, Robyn Kate O'Connor.

Mass

Readers

Eucharistic Ministers

Clooney 7.00pm Sat April

27th

Frances

Earls

Frances

Earls

Maghera 9.30am

Sun April 28th

Elaine Corbett

Mary

Corbett

Quin 11am

Sun April 28th

Colette Colleran

Martha Deegan & Ann Corbett

Eucharistic Adoration Quin Church,

next Thursday and every Thursday,

Vigil observed 9.30am to 5.30pm.

Why not drop in for a few minutes?

Fr. Tom O’Gorman - Co Parish Priest Abbey Cluster 087-2285355

Parish Secretary, 065 6825612 www.quinclooneymagheraparish.ie parishqcm@gmail.com Broadcasting on FM 107.9 mhz

Masses Anniversaries Sat. April 20th (Clooney)

7.00pm

Sun. April 20th(Maghera)

9.30am

Sun. April 21st (Quin)

11am

Bobby Clune, Danganbrack; Mary & Danny Duggan & their sons Gerard & John, Knappogue; Finnian O'Cinneide

Sat. April 27th (Clooney)

7.00pm

Ian, Peggy & Paddy Lynch, Cullane; Willie McNamara, Car-rahan; Stephen & Nora Daffy and son in law Seamus Cahir.

Sun. April 28th(Maghera)

9.30am

Sun. April 28th (Quin)

11am

Tommy O'Brien, Quinville Mary Keane, Ballyhickey

Cullaun Sailing Club, Co Clare celebrate the opening of their new clubhouse, after 40 years of promoting sailing in East Clare. Young and old alike, in the Clare/ Limerick areas are invited to go out on the water and Try Sailing on the Grand Open Day, on Saturday 27th April 2019, at 2pm. Admission is free. More details on www.cullaunsailingclub.com.

6 week course of Pilates: Starting Tuesday 23rd April @ 6.45pm in abbey Room, Quin Hall. All welcome, mats pro-vided. Contact Mary Donlon 087 281 8408 or Facebook Mary Donlon Pilates. This is the last course till September.

LOTTO RESULTS: No's drawn: 2; 6; 8; 21. No winner. €40 winners: Tara Moroney, Clooney; Pa Finneran, Maigh Da-ra; John Clune, Crowhill; Maria Corry, C/O Daktronics; Conor Crowley, Quin. Next week's draw in Duggan's. Jackpot: €5,600

Quin Taekwondo Split the pot : Total Pot €110. Congratulations to this week's winner Dara Carolan who wins €55. Best of luck for next week. Envelopes for split the pot can be got in the local shops, post office

Diocesan Notes

PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION MEETING: This month's Meeting of the Clare Branch of Parkinson's Association will be held on Friday 26th April at Carrigoran Wellness Centre, Newmarket-on-Fergus from 10.00 to 1.00. All welcome together with family member/carer. Further information call 087 2272782 Annual Mass & anointing for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses in Ennis Cathedral on Wednesday, 15th May from 2 to 3pm with Bishop Fintan Monahan as chief celebrant and homilist, assisted by many Priests for the anointing. All are welcome. Divine Mercy Sunday Devotions 28th April in Ennis Cathedral led by Bishop Fintan Monahan at 2.30 Prayers, Con-fessions, Holy Mass and Eucharistic Benediction. The feast of Divine Mercy is a public feast day formally established by St John Paul 11. The Divine Mercy Devotion is inspired by the experiences and writings of a Polish nun, Sister Faustina. Novena of Divine Mercy starts Good Friday. UGANDA 6 KM FUN RUN AND FAMILY WALK in Barefield on Sunday April 28th at 12 Noon. Registration from Has-setts. € 10 per person, € 20 per family, prizes and spot prizes on the day including prize for first buggy home. Face painting, DJ and Post race Refreshments. A group of 15 volunteers from Clare are volunteering to Uganda this Sum-mer to work on two projects , Hospice Jinja and the purchase of a site and construction of a new pre school for 90 orphan children. All flights and costs are paid by the volunteers. Contact John Conroy 087 6666927 On- Line registration : https://register.primoevents.com/ps/event/UgandaFunRun2019 Clare branch of the Irish Kidney Association: The Clare Branch of the IKA invite donor families, transplant recipients & their carers, along with the general public to their Mass of Remembrance &Thanksgiving in Ennis Cathedral on Sunday 28th April at 11 30am. Celebrant Bishop Fintan Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind are looking for Volunteers for our annual Guide Dog Day appeal on Friday, May 10th. We will be collecting on the streets of Ennis, Miltown Malbay, Kilrush and Killaloe-Ballina Bridge on Friday 10th May from 10am – 6pm, if you can spare two hours of your time to support this collection, please contact Katie Kiely on 085 887 6580 or email on katie@guidedogs.ie

Buíochas

Today, I wish to extend to all of you a very Happy, Joyful and Peaceful Easter. I take this opportunity thank you for

your continued support to me in my ministry here in the Parish of Quin, Clooney, Maghera. A sincere thanks to all

who were involved in An tSeachtain Mór of Holy Week. The choirs, and all involved in music ministry. Altar Servers,

Readers, Eucharistic Ministers, Altar Societies. flower arrangers, sacristans, church cleaners, and liturgy group. To

those who provided palm for Palm Sunday. To all on our Pastoral and Parish Councils who also assisted in helping

with the Dawn Mass in Quin Abbey. Míle Buícohas. May the Risen Lord fill you with awe and gratitude for the gift of

new life that His Resurrection brings and fill you with the promise of hope. Fr. Tom O'Gorman