Parish Newsletter- 27th July 2025
| Mass times for the week ahead | MASS INTENTIONS |
|---|---|
| Saturday 26th July @7.00pm Clara | Derek Mee. Imelda Goode. Theresa Slowey. Lilly Dignam. |
| Sunday 27th July @10.00am Horseleap | Eamonn McGuinness (Month’s Mind). Eileen Dillon. Billy, James & Mary Fitzgerald. |
| Sunday 27th July @11.30am Clara | Noel Delaney. Jimmy Rabbitte. Kathleen & Tim Dunican & Baby Cree. |
| Tuesday 29th July @7.30pm Clara | Ss. Martha, Mary & Lazarus Brigid Hooban |
| Wednesday 30th July @7.30pm Clara | St. Peter Chrysologus Kathleen Egan. Lilly, Peter, Catherine & Patrick Carbery. |
| Thursday 31st July @10.00am Clara | St. Ignatius Loyola No Intention. |
| FIRST FRIDAY Friday 1st August @10.00am Clara | St. Alphonsus Liguori Mass for all on the Parish List of the Dead. |
| Saturday 2nd August @10.00am Clara | St. Peter Faber SJ No Intention. |
| Saturday 2nd August @7.00pm Clara | Sean Colleran. Isaac & Elizabeth Kelly. |
| Sunday 3rd August @10.00am Horseleap | Laura Dillon. Daniel & Ellen Scally. Deceased of Moran & Harrington families. |
| Sunday 3rd August @11.30am Clara | Joe, Josie & John Kennedy. |
Adoration of the Blessed Eucharist
CLARA: Monday & Friday – 5.00pm-6.00pm
CLARA: Tuesday & Wednesday – after 7.30pm Mass to 9.00pm.
HORSELEAP: Tuesday – 7.00pm-9.00pm
All are welcome!
Come and find peace in the Lord.
Please pray for Paul Fitzpatrick, Railway View; & for Marguerite Egan, Ballycumber: both recently deceased. R.I.P.
‘Ask, and It will be Given to You.’
Often we forget that Jesus, just like us, needed to pray to stay in touch with His Father. We think that he had some kind of ‘direct link’ with God & knew what he had to do automatically. Yet the Gospels make it abundantly clear that prayer was at the core of his mission. Before all of his major decisions, we see that he prayed. Our journey to God must follow the same pathway. We must look at our God, not with fear, but with the respect we might give our own parents when we were young. We recognise in God and in Jesus a ‘friend’ who seeks to have an intimate, personal relationship with us. Prayer is about developing a real, personal, relationship with Jesus. This is the message that screams at us from this Gospel. God is ‘Abba’ (Father), and our relationship with this God is one of friendship. A true friend will always do what is best for us, and never do what would harm us. Looking at this week’s Gospel and listening to what people of deep prayer tell us, we notice the same words arising again and again: ‘intimate’; ‘friend’; ‘personal’; ‘relationship’; ‘Abba’ (Father). The extraordinary thing in this Gospel is that Jesus is not only sharing with us his prayer and his relationship with the Father (Abba), but he is inviting each one of us to have the same relationship with the Father as he has. It is mindboggling, extraordinary, overwhelming, astonishing and any other superlative you care to add. It is also true!!
Collections 19th/20th July- Development Fund: €1,665; Plate: €585; Offerings: €1,140.
Thank You Very Much!
For less than the cost of a cup of coffee, you can support our parish:
Meath Diocesan & Fr. Willie Doyle S.J. Pilgrimage to Knock: Sunday 10th August. Rosary at 2.00pm. Mass @ 3.00pm.
“Pilgrims of Hope” this Jubilee Year 2025. 28th July – 4th August, 38 pilgrims with Bishop Tom Deenihan, will participate in the Jubilee of Youth in Rome, culminating in the Jubilee Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV on Sunday 3rd August. Please pray for these young pilgrims as they join thousands from all over the world for this great witness of Hope in the Lord. Check out this event on www.vaticannews.va, www.dioceseofmeath.ie and EWTN television.
Step by Step to Feed the Next Child by Mary’s Meals Walk from Kilkenny to Knock Shrine will arrive in Clara on Sunday 10th August and leave on Monday 11th to walk to Athlone. Mary’s Meals is a solution to world hunger, feeding hungry children at school in 16 of the world’s poorest countries. €22 will feed a child for a school year. Please go to marysmeals.ie to support this charity. Any donation, big or small, is very welcome.
Antoinette Geoghegan will host the Down Syndrome Ireland Ice Cream Fundraiser on Saturday the 16th August from 3.00pm to 6.00pm at her house in Kilbride, R35 HC66. Please come along and support.
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Jubilee Prayer
Father in heaven, may the faith you have given us in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.
Amen.
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