Abbeylara Parish Bulletin – The Most Holy Trinity. 4th June 2023

Priest on Duty: Fr. Michael Campbell Phone 043 6686270. 086 8718999. www.abbeylaraparish.com
Email. abbeylaraparish@eircom.net

St. Bernard’s: Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th June
7.30 p.m. Luke Gaynor ((14th A) Ballyboy Cottage.
11.00 a.m. Francie (9th A) and Cellie (8th A) Coyle, Ballinacross and all the deceased members of the Coyle and Murtagh Families.

St. Mary’s: Sunday 4th June
9.30 a.m. Cemetery Sunday, Carra.

St. Bernard’s: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th June
7.30 p.m. –
11.00 a.m. –

St. Mary’s: Sunday 11th June
9.30 a.m. –

Weekday Masses:
St. Bernard’s
Friday 7.30 p.m. John and Eileen Brady, (A) Cartronbore and all the Deceased members of the Brady & Connolly Families, Cartronbore and Kilnacrott.

Feast Days:
Monday – 9th Week in Ordinary Time.
World Environment Day.
St. Charles Lawnga and Companions. Martyrs of Uganda
Tuesday – St. Jarlath (Tuam).
Wednesday – St. Coleman. (Dromore)
Ven. Matt Talbot.
Friday – St. Columba. (Colum Cille) (Derry)
Saturday – St. Ephrem.

Collections: Offertory – €504.45
Thank you:

Abbeylara GFC LOTTO: Play Lotto online at https://play.clubforce.com/play_newa.asp?ll_id=2697#Anchor or contact any club official to play the LOTTO by envelope.

AG Drive-in Bingo:
AG Drive-in BINGO continues each Sunday evening at 6pm at the Granard GAA Grounds. Patrons will play for a chance to win prize money totaling €14,500. We very much look forward to welcoming everyone to this most enjoyable event.

Cemetery Sunday, Carra: Rosary at 9.15 a.m. Mass at 9.30 a.m. both in the Cemetery, weather permitting. Graveside Memorial Lights are available on the way in to the Cemetery. You may bring your own Holy Water to bless the graves at the time of blessing after Holy Mass.

Episcopal Ordination of Fr. Paul Connell. 4 people from our Parish are invited to attend Fr. Paul’s Episcopal Ordination as the new Bishop of our Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, which will take place in the St. Mel’s Cathedral on 18th June at 3 p.m. You are also invited for hospitality in St. Mel’s College afterwards. 4 tickets are available for our Parish representatives. One of these 4 people will be invited to carry a Banner in the opening procession.

Priests Diocesan Knock Retreat: – Takes place from Sunday evening 4th to Thursday 8th June in Knock House Hotel. The retreat director will be Fr. Hugh Lagan SMA. The retreat this year will be shared with the diocese of Achonry. Please pray for the Priests who are on this retreat.
There will be no evening Masses on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Abbeylara Active Retirement: Group will meet in the Parish Centre at 11am on Thursday next 8th June. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.

Ephrem (or Eprhaim) the Syrian left us hundreds of hymns and poems on the faith that inflamed and inspired the whole Church, but few facts about his own inspiring life.
Venerable Matt Talbot: Young Matt Talbot, known as the “saint in overalls,” knelt outside the doors of his church for hours every morning until the doors were opened.
Once inside, he would prostrate himself on the floor in the form of a cross before entering his pew.
Every Sunday, he spent seven hours in Church without moving, (attending all the Masses) – “his arms crossed, his elbows not resting on anything, his body from the knees up as rigid and straight as the candles on the altar,” a biographer writes. He did this every Sunday for 40 years.
A tremendous son of Our Blessed Mother, in addition to praying the rosary and angelus, one of his favourite little prayers, which he sometimes kept written on his hand, was,
“O Virgin I ask three things from you:
the grace of God,
the presence of God,
the blessing of God”
and
“O blessed Mother, obtain for me from Jesus that I may participate in His folly.”
Most notably, of course, Matt Talbot is known for his total conversion of life away from alcohol addiction, something he described as like “escaping Hell.”
There is evidence that Matt’s first seven years after taking the pledge were especially difficult. Avoiding his former drinking places was hard. Only alcoholic men and women who have stopped drinking can fully appreciate how difficult the earliest years of sobriety were for Matt.