!Notes from the

Pastor’s Desk… a chairde, !Volunteers Needed to Help Re-Beautify Lisdoonvarna Church! We are looking for men and women volunteers to deep-clean, polish and decorate Lisdoonvarna Church before it re-opens next Sunday 13th July. Can you offer the gift of your time and effort? Please contact Mary Mooney soon at 086 4084728 if you are available to help in any way.

!SCHEDULE CHANGES DUE TO CHURCH RESTORATION IN LISDOONVARNA CHURCH:I am happy to announce that work has now completed on a new heating system for Lisdoonvarna Church. The Church will re-open, and our normal schedule of Masses there will resume, with Mass next Sunday July 13th. There will be tea and coffee and good things after Mass to celebrate! All are welcome! !PARISH WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE UNTIL JULY 13TH Monday Mass at 7.00pm is transferred to Doolin Church. Tuesday Mass at 10.00am is cancelled.Thursday Mass at 7.00pm is transferred to Kilshanny Church. Friday Mass at 10.00am is transferred to Toovahera Church !SCHEDULE CHANGES DUE TO CHURCH RESTORATION IN KILSHANNY CHURCH:The much- needed damp-proofing and restoration work on our Church in Kilshanny will begin on Monday July 14th. This project may take up to two years to complete as each phase needs time to settle and to be re-tested. The Church will not look its best during this time but the end result hopefully will be worth it. Due to intensive work during the first phase there will be no 7.00pm Mass in Kilshanny on Saturdays 19th and 26th July. Please spread word in the community about this.

Father Conor

!Sporting and Community News Lisdoonvarna Tourist Office: Lisdoonvarna Fáilte are delighted to announce that, in collaboration with Fáilte Ireland, our village will have a new Tourist Office which will open next Saturday 12th of July. This is a significant development in the promotion of tourism in this whole region. Volunteers are being sought to help with some evening slots from 4.00pm to 6.00pm as a service to our community and to our visitors. Please contact the Lisdoonvarna Fáilte Office for more information at 086 1250111. !Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Members of the Society of St. Vincent Ennistymon and North Clare Area Branch are available to help any person or family who are in need and require assistance. To contact them, call 086 4002627 or 065 6824188. Leave your name, full address and contact number and they will arrange to visit you as soon as possible.

The Citizens Information Outreach Service is now located at the Lisdoonvarna Fáilte Office in Lisdoonvarna from 2.00pm to 4.30pm every Thursday.

In Loving Memory Our faith teaches us that having Mass offered for our beloved departed especially on their anniversaries and the weeks after their death, is a way of expressing our own ongoing love for them. It is also a clear witness to our faith in the power of Jesus’

passion, death and resurrection to heal them from sin, liberate them from the grave and raise them up whole and transfigured for holy and eternal communion with the Blessed Trinity, Our Lady, the saints and angels in the joy of heaven.

This power becomes present before us on the altar of every Mass.

www.lisdoon.ie www.facebook.com/lisdoon Parish Cemetery Sunday , 6th July 2014

Come to me, all you who labour and are

overburdened, and I will give you rest.

Parish Priest Father Conor Cunningham 065 - 7074142 parishoffice@lisdoon.ie Parish Clerk Mary Mooney (9.00am-5.00pm) 086 - 4084728 !Newsletter Items before 6.00pm Wednesdays to news@lisdoon.ie !Mass Times Sunday Mass: Toovahera Church Saturday Vigil Mass 5.00pm Kilshanny Church Saturday Vigil Mass 7.00pm Doolin Church Sunday 10.00am Lisdoonvarna Church (Sunday 11.30am is temporarily suspended) !Weekday Mass: (temporary schedule) Monday Doolin Church 7.00pm Thursday Kilshanny Church 7.00pm Friday Toovahera Church 10.00am !Confession After all weekday Masses, or at any time by request. !Eucharistic Adoration Toovahera Church Sundays 3.00pm to 4.00pm Doolin Church Wednesdays 8.00pm to 9.00pm Kilshanny Church Fridays 7.00pm to 8.00pm (Lisdoonvarna Church Mondays and Wednesdays 6.00pm to 7.00pm is suspended) (Solemn Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament Lisdoonvarna Church Mondays after 7.00pm Mass is suspended. The Holy Rosary of the BVM Lisdoonvarna Church Mondays at 6.00pm is suspended.) !Vocations If you sometimes think about giving your life as a priest, Father Conor would be happy to meet with you anytime for a confidential chat, information and spiritual advice. "Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others’ - Pope Francis

(from his Inauguration Mass)

Kilshanny Saturday  5th  7.00  pm  

George and Elizabeth Green, Athlone (A) Austin and Margaret Hynes, Knockerska (A)

Maura Agler-Schenck (née Hynes), Knockerska (A) Paddy Kelly (A) !

Doolin Sunday  6th  10.00am  

Ferdinand Waibel, Kilmoon, Lisdoonvarna (Month’s Mind)

Brud and John Petty and deceased family (A) Eileen, Michael, Oliver, John-Joe, Martin

and Leo Byrnes, Glasha (A) Noel O’Connor (A)

Monsie, Jimmy and James Stack, Ennistymon (A) Sunday  13th  10.00am  

Deceased of Davis family, Ennistymon (A) Sean Garrahy (A)

Pat Fitzpatrick, Doolin RIP George Dunleavy, Ballinalacken (A) !

Lisdoonvarna Sunday  13th  11.30am  

John Curtin, Aughiska (A) Mary and Martin Curtin, Carhumana (A) Tom and Mary Doolan, Ballinahuon (A)

Patrick and Mary Sammon, Knockaskeheen (A) Monday  14th  7.00pm  

Kathleen Kilmartin and deceased of family, Ennistymon (A)

Joe Mooney and deceased of family, St. Brendan’s Road (A)

Mary K. Griffin (A) Thursday  17th  7.00pm  

John and Susan Kilmartin, Cronogort (A) Mary and Paddy Russell, Cronogort (A)

Mary and Michael Flanagan, Cronogort (A)

Cemetery Sunday November is the traditional time for us to remember our beloved departed and to do penance for them and pray that they will be healed and admitted into heaven. However, in Ireland, because of the high probability of rain and darkness in November, parishes often gather in summer time to pray in their cemeteries. Hopefully the weather will be kind for the programme of Masses and prayer-services planned for this weekend… If any of the adult traditional musicians of the parish would like to come along and play at any of these Masses, before Mass, after Mass, at the offertory, and during Communion, you would be most welcome! It would be a beautiful way to worship the Lord of Life and to honour our beloved departed.

Saturday 5th July 4.00pm Kilmoon cemetery short prayer service. 4.30pm Toovahera churchyard short prayer service.5.00pm Mass at the ruins of the Church at Kileaney (Weather permitting, alternatively in Toovahera Church at 5.10pm.) 6.45pm Kilshanny churchyard, short prayer service. 7.00pm Mass in Kilshanny Church 7.45pm Kilshanny cemetery prayers !

Sunday 6th July 10.00am Mass in Doolin Church 3.00pm Mass in Doolin cemetery (As an extra parish Sunday Mass, and weather permitting, alternatively in Doolin Church at 3.10pm) 3.45pm Killilagh cemetery, short prayer service.

PARISH OF LISDOONVARNA AND KILSHANNY !!!CORPUS CHRISTI; LISDOONVARNA, ST. AUGUSTINE; KILSHANNY, HOLY ROSARY; DOOLIN, OUR LADY OF LOURDES; TOOVAHERA

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Prayers for a Cemetery Visit !The Holy Gospel according to John (6:51) !

Jesus said: I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I

shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world. !Silent Prayer and Reflection !

The Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary !We ask Mary, who is the first ever and the best ever of Jesus’

followers to strengthen our prayers for the salvation of our beloved departed family, friends and neighbours. Upon the cross Jesus

entrusted us all to her motherly love. May all the faithful departed, and we ourselves, meet her one day face to face in heaven in the joy

of the Lord’s presence. Amen. !The Glorious Mysteries !

The Resurrection of Our Lord (John 20:19) The Ascension of Our Lord (Mark 16:19)

The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles (Acts 2:4) The Assumption of Mary into Heaven (Luke 1:48-49)

The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (2 Timothy 2:12) !Concluding Prayer !

Lord God, whose days are without end

and whose mercies are beyond counting, keep us mindful

that life is short and our hour of death unknown. Let your Spirit guide our days on earth

in the ways of holiness and justice, that we may serve you

in union with the whole Church, sure in faith, strong in hope, perfect in love.

And when our earthly journey is ended, lead us rejoicing into your kingdom,

where you live for ever and ever. Amen. !Appeal to Our Lady, Star of the Sea !

Hail, Queen of heaven, the ocean star, Guide of the wanderer here below,

Thrown on life's surge, we claim thy care, Save us from peril and from woe.Mother of Christ, Star of the sea

Pray for the wanderer, pray for me.

The Parish Policy and Code of Practice for Public ‘Churchgate’ Collections is posted in the Church Porches

Garda-permit public collectors are asked to respect our agreed code of practice by holding collections in their designated spaces and only after each Mass. Goodwill shown towards our worshipping community by the courteous cooperation of collectors with this policy is appreciated. Our Facebook Page can be found at www.facebook.com/lisdoon Relatives and friends abroad might be glad to keep in touch in that way if you let them know! The newsletter can also be downloaded from www.lisdoon.ie Have you community news to share? All suggestions for inclusion in the parish newsletter, items for a community-building, sporting, voluntary and non-commercial nature, should be sent to news@lisdoon.ie before deadline of 6.00pm on Wednesdays.

a chairde,

The Word of God this Sunday, the

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, calls us to the depth of generosity, humility and contemplation it takes to see that compassionate love is at the heart of our identity and our mission as human beings and as disciples of Jesus. The word ‘compassion’ at its Latin roots means ‘to suffer with’ someone. It describes God’s heart-breaking love for us as he sees us cheapened, damaged and death-bound by the horror of sin. He looks on us, his children, and it pains him. He follows through on that suffering love by becoming one of us as the Word of God, the eternally-begotten Son, becoming Jesus of Nazareth, our anointed-One, our Christ. God’s pain over us crystallises on the cross of Calvary and is vindicated beyond our imaginings and for all eternity in Jesus’ resurrection. The power unleashed by this compassion, this passionate self-emptying divine love, is our pathway back to healing and to a share in God’s own life. The first reading from the book of Deuteronomy teaches us that this new life through the Word of God is near and readily available to us. The psalm teaches us how to pray for this humility to accept it. The second reading from the Holy Spirit to the Colossians and to us, through Saint Paul, points to the cross of Jesus as the total revelation of God’s ‘com-passion’ with us. In the Gospel Jesus implores his followers to live up to the image of God in which they were made by being reckless practitioners of compassionate love to all, especially to those who are most in need. May the Eucharist this weekend give us the graces we need to contemplate these mysteries and to make them present in the world through our thoughts and actions.

Laity Commissions Collection This Weekend

Your contribution today funds the involvement of lay men and women in the planning, decision-making and oversight of the Church in Ireland in areas such as catechetics, seminaries, vocations, communications, doctrine, ecumenism, education, emigrants, justice and peace, liturgy, missions, pastoral, press and information, research and development, social welfare and Irish prisoners overseas. You can find out more about these ministries and collaborative structures on www.irishbishops.ie

Year of Faith Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

This Autumn, from 20th to 28th October, I will lead a Year of Faith pilgrimage to the most sacred sites of salvation history in the Holy Land. We will spend four nights in Jerusalem, visiting Bethlehem, the Temple, the Mount of Olives, Calvary, the Holy Sepulchre, Mount Tabor etc., followed by four nights in Tiberias, exploring Galilee, Nazareth,

Capernaum, Mount of Beatitudes, Cana, the Jordan

river etc. A full spiritual retreat and an introductory scripture

study programme will be offered. The fare is €1,519pps, plus optional insurance of €25. This tour is a little more expensive than others because the hotels and meals etc. are all four-star. In my experience this makes a huge difference to the overall experience of the pilgrimage as the lower grade hotels can be very disappointing. Please let me know if you might be interested and I can send you the full itinerary.

Parish Priest

Father Conor Cunningham ��� 065 - 7074142 parishoffice@lisdoon.ie

Parish Clerk

Mary Mooney (9.00am-5.00pm) ��� 086 - 4084728

Newsletter Items before 6.00pm Wednesdays to news@lisdoon.ie

Mass Times

Sunday Mass:

Toovahera Church

Saturday Vigil Mass 5.00pm

Kilshanny Church

Saturday Vigil Mass 7.00pm Doolin Church

Sunday 10.00am Lisdoonvarna Church

Sunday 11.30am

Weekday Mass:

Lisdoonvarna Church

Monday 7.00pm Tuesday 10.00am Thursday 7.00pm Friday 10.00am

Confession: After all weekday Masses, or at any time by request.

Eucharistic Adoration

Toovahera Church

Sundays 3.00pm to 4.00pm Doolin Church

Wednesdays 8.00pm to 9.00pm Kilshanny Church

Fridays 7.00pm to 8.00pm

Lisdoonvarna Church

Mondays and Wednesdays 6.00pm to 7.00pm Solemn Benediction

of the Most Blessed Sacrament

Lisdoonvarna Church

Mondays after 7.00pm Mass. Rosary

Lisdoonvarna Church Mondays at 6.00pm

Vocations corner...

If you sometimes think about giving your life as a priest, Father Conor would be happy to meet with you anytime for a confidential chat, information and spiritual advice.

Supporting your Church:

Sincere thanks to everyone for this on-going financial commitment to your faith and to the mission of Christ’s Church. The amount of the offertory collection last Sunday 7th July was: Registered Parishioners’ Envelopes €638 and Loose Plate €712 totalling €1350.

Serving the Churches of

Corpus Christi, Lisdoonvarna; St. Augustine, Kilshanny; Holy Rosary, Doolin; and Our Lady of Lourdes, Toovahera.

Website: www.lisdoon.ie Facebook: www.facebook.com/lisdoon

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 14th July 2013

Our faith teaches us that having Mass offered for our beloved departed,

especially on their anniversaries and in the weeks after their death, is a

way of expressing our ongoing love for them. It is also a clear witness to

our faith in the power of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection to heal them from sin, liberate them from the grave, and raise them up whole and

transfigured for holy and eternal communion with the Blessed Trinity, Our

Lady, the saints and angels in the joy of heaven. This power becomes

present before us on the altar of every Mass.

Families gathered for memorial Masses are asked to review the weekly parish memorial list in advance and come

to the sacristy before Mass if there are any errors or omissions.

Family members are also encouraged to volunteer to bring

the bread and wine to the altar at the offertory of the Mass.

Crucifixion Window, Doolin

A selection of Mass Cards signed by the parish priest is now available from the Parish Clerk

in the sacristy of Lisdoonvarna Church after every Mass.

Designs currently available are for the deceased, for the sick, for blessing in

exams and a general Mass bouquet of love and blessing.

There is no charge for the cards - though a Mass stipend may be offered,

if desired, for the support of priests at home and on the missions.

The Parish Facebook Page can be found at www.facebook.com/lisdoon

Relatives and friends abroad might be glad to keep in touch in that way if you let them know! The newsletter can also be downloaded from www.lisdoon.ie

Have you community news to share?

All suggestions for inclusion in the parish newsletter, items of a community-building, sporting, voluntary, and non-commercial nature, should be sent to news@lisdoon.ie before deadline of 6.00pm on Wednesdays.

Parish of Lisdoonvarna and Kilshanny

The Parish Policy and Code of Practice for Public Collections

is posted in the Church Porches.

Garda-permit public collectors are asked to respect our agreed parish code of practice by holding collections in their designated spaces and only after

each Mass. Goodwill shown towards our worshipping community by the courteous cooperation of collectors with this policy is appreciated.

Pope Francis’ General Intention for July: That World Youth Day in Brazil may encourage all young Christians to become disciples and missionaries of the Gospel. Pope Francis’ Missionary Intention for July: That throughout Asia doors may open to messengers of the Gospel. Our Parish’s Intention for this Week: For parishioners who have emigrated and for all seeking employment. Father Conor’s Intention for this Week: For a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon everyone in our parish, especially upon young adults. That they may know the joy of the faith and want to encounter Jesus every Sunday at Holy Mass.

Parish Youth Faith Group News

Croagh Patrick Pilgrimage Climb?

We’ve already decided to join the huge multitudes on Reek Sunday 28th July. In order to plan transport, and to confirm that there’s still enough of us free to go, could the group leaders give me a list of participants by Thursday 18th July? We will make a final decision after 7.00pm Mass at a short meeting in the community room of Lisdoonvarna Church at 7.20pm that evening. All the group, and new members, are invited to attend.

Youth 2000 Summer Festival, Cistercian College, Roscrea, Co.

Tipperary from Thursday 15th – Sunday 18th August. I hope that our new Parish Youth Faith Group will ensure that this parish is well-represented in Roscrea! The Festival is for young people aged 16-35, and is an opportunity not to be missed to experience the Catholic faith and meet many new people, with over 1000 young people from all corners of Ireland attending last year. The festival is donation only, and free of charge. Free buses are available too. For more information www.youth2000.ie or phone 01 6753690 or facebook - youthtwothousandIreland

Have you any news items or anniversary announcements for the

August parish newsletters? The editions for August will all be printed together well in advance of the holiday period. Please email your contributions to news@lisdoon.ie before 6.00pm this Wednesday 24th July.

With thanks, blessings and prayers,

Saturday 13th 7.00pm

Missa Pro Populo - Mass for all the people of the parish Saturday 20th 5.00pm

Ann Queally, Toovahera (A)

Saturday 13th 7.00pm

Bridget and Michael McInerney, Ballingaddy (A) Josephine Nagle, Carroweragh (A)

Sunday 14th 10.00am

Billy Clarke, Bridge House, Doolin (Months Mind) Deceased of Davis family (A)

Daniel and Maisie O’Callaghan, Ballinalacken Castle and deceased of family (A)

Baby Kennedy, Ennis (A) Jack and Maud Considine, Cregg (A)

Sunday 21st 10.00am

John Nagle, Austin and Katie Flanagan, Luogh (A) Mary Ellen Curtin, Caherkinalla (A)

Ellen and Michael Frawley, Carnane (A)

Sunday 14th 11.30am

Donie Sammon, Rooska and Dublin (Months Mind) Tom and Mary Doolin, Ballinahuon (A)

Jimmy Grey, Atlantic Drive (First A) Joseph, Margaret and Peter McInerney, Ballytigue (A)

John J. Callinan and Nora, St. Brendan’s Road (A) Malachy and Kitty Callinan, St. Brendan’s Road (A)

David and Patsy Callinan, St. Brendan’s Road (A) Sunday 21st 11.30am

Bridget O’Connell, Ballycannoe (Month’s Mind) Monica O’Loghlen, Lisdoonvarna (A)

> We pray also for

James Stack

late of Ennistymon and UK, and beloved brother of

our parishioner Marie Canavan.

May he walk in the light of the Lord

in the land of the living.

Our bishop has asked every parish to pray this beautiful and specially composed ‘Prayer

for the Child in the Womb’ at Masses during this time of special intercession:

PRAYER FOR THE CHILD IN THE WOMB

Lord Jesus, you are the source and lover of life. Reawaken in us respect for every human life.

Help us to see in each child the marvellous work of our Creator.

Open our hearts to welcome every child as a unique and wonderful gift.

Guide the work of doctors, nurses and midwives. May the life of a mother and her baby in the womb be equally cherished and respected.

Help those who make our laws to uphold the uniqueness and sacredness of every human life,

from the first moment of conception to natural death.

Give us wisdom and generosity to build a society that cares for all.

Together with Mary, your Mother, in whose womb you took on our human nature, help us to choose life in every decision we take.

We ask this in the joyful hope of eternal life with you, and in the communion of the Blessed Trinity. Amen.

Our Lady of Knock, pray for us! All the Saints of Ireland, pray for us!

Tug of War

Success for The

Burren! Our local Tug Of War team, The Burren, came second in the recent All-Ireland at the 580Kg division in the Senior All Ireland at Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo on July 7th. Congratulations to our parishioners involved; Michael Flanagan, Kieran Flanagan and Micheal Considine.

PARISH SURVEY 2014 !Our Detailed Questionnaire-Survey of our Parishioners is ongoing. I invite all active parishioners to participate and return their form before the new deadline of July 20th. If you are not a registered parishioner please request a questionnaire by completing the postcard available in our Churches.

Prayers of the Faithful

If we trust in God, he will take care of us in life and in death. Let us pray with confidence for our beloved departed. 1. We pray for Christians all over our world. That we may joyfully witness to the hope of life everlasting. Lord, hear us. 2. We pray for our loved ones whose mortal remains lie in this cemetery. Lord, forgive their sins and hold them forever in you abundant grace. Lord, hear us. 3. Lord, remember all those who mourn the loss of their loved ones. May faith and human friendship be a constant comfort during difficult times, Lord, hear us. 4. We ask you Lord to bless and reward those who honour the dead, and our Christian faith in the resurrection, by tending this cemetery with love. Lord, hear us. 5. Let us pause for a moment to bring our personal needs and intentions to the Lord. (pause). Lord, hear us. 6. We pray for all members of the human family who have died throughout the countless centuries. That none might be lost and that we might all be joyfully reunited one day in heaven. Lord, hear us.

The Liturgy of the Eucharist

The Presentation of the Gifts As the gifts of bread and wine are brought forward each person spiritually ‘sends’ their very selves to the altar along with them. Thus we unite ourselves with Jesus in his passion, death and resurrection which become present upon the altar of Holy Mass.

The Offertory Prayer of the People May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good and the good of all his holy Church. !

The Eucharistic Prayer

The Lord be with you. And with your Spirit. Lift up your hearts. We lift them up to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right and just. !Holy Holy

!Mystery of Faith

!The Great Amen

The Communion Rite

Our Father… !For the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and for ever. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed. !Communion Song Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast; Body of Christ, be thou my saving guest; Blood of my Saviour, bathe me in thy tide, Wash me ye waters streaming from his side. !Strength and protection may thy passion be; O Blessed Jesus, hear and answer me; Deep in thy wounds, Lord, hide and shelter me; So shall I never, never part from thee. !Guard and defend me from the foe malign; In death’s dread moments make me only thine; call me and bid me come to thee on high, Where I may praise thee with thy saints for aye

A Reflection - The Eucharist and the Faithful Departed The Eucharist is the heart of the Paschal reality of Christian death. In the Eucharist, the Church expresses her real and immediate communion with the departed: offering to the Father in the Holy Spirit the sacrifice of the death and Resurrection of Christ, she asks Him to purify his children of their sins and its consequences, and to admit them to the Paschal fullness of the table of the Kingdom. It is by the Eucharist thus celebrated that the community of the faithful, especially the family of the deceased, learn to live on in communion with those who ‘have fallen asleep in the Lord’, by communicating in the Body of Christ of which they are still living members and, then, by praying for them and with them.- Catechism of the Catholic Church !Rite of Dismissal and Blessing !Recessional Song to Our Blessed Lady

I'll sing a hymn to Mary, The Mother of my God, The Virgin of all virgins, Of David's Royal blood. O teach me, holy Mary, A loving song to frame, When wicked men blaspheme thee, To love and bless thy name.

O noble Tower of David, Of gold and ivory, The Ark of God's Own promise, The Gate of Heaven to me; To live, and not to love thee, Would fill my soul with shame: When wicked men blaspheme thee, I'll love and bless thy name. !

Order of Mass Entrance Song O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made. I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee; How great Thou art, how great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

When Christ shall come with shouts of acclamation And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart! Then I shall bow in humble adoration, And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee; How great Thou art, how great Thou art! Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee: How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

The Liturgy of the Word !First reading A reading from the book of Zechariah (Zechariah 9:9-10) The Lord says this: Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion! Shout with gladness, daughter of Jerusalem! See now, your king comes to you; he is victorious, he is triumphant, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. He will banish chariots from Ephraim and horses from Jerusalem; the bow of war will be banished. He will proclaim peace for the nations. His empire shall stretch from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. !Psalm    (Psalm 147:12-15, 19-20)

I will bless your name for ever, O God my King. !I will give you glory, O God my king, I will bless your name for ever. I will bless you day after day and praise your name for ever.

The Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love. How good is the Lord to all, compassionate to all his creatures.

All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord, and your friends shall repeat their blessing. They shall speak of the glory of your reign and declare your might, O God.

The Lord is faithful in all his words and loving in all his deeds. The Lord supports all who fall and raises all who are bowed down. !!

Second reading A reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans (Romans 8:9,11-13) Your interests are not in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him, and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.   So then, my brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live.

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. !Gospel Acclamation (Matthew11:25) Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children. Alleluia! !Gospel The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew Glory to you, O Lord. (Matthew 11:25-30) Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.   ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’

The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. !The Nicene Creed

I believe in one God,the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,the only Begotten Son of God,born of the Father before all ages.God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, (at the next phrase, up to and including ‘and became man’, all bow) and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the scriptures. he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

The Offertory Collection This necessary financial support to Christ’s Church in your local parish is gathered during this time. A proportion of our weekly income is sacrificed as an authentic sign of our commitment to Christ and to his coming Kingdom. Thank you for your contributions of last Sunday 29th June as follows: Enrolled Parishioners Envelopes €622 and Loose Plate €478. Toovahera € 181 Kilshanny € 252 Doolin € 667   Total €1,100