Parish Newsletter- 23rd November 2025
| Mass times for the week ahead | MASS INTENTIONS |
|---|---|
| Saturday 22nd November @7.00pm Clara | Liam McCaffrey (Month’s Memory). Johnny Carroll. Marguerette, Peggy & Patrick Corboy |
| Sunday 23rd November @10.00am Horseleap | No Intention. |
| Sunday 23rd November @11.30am Clara | Joe Rabbette. |
| Tuesday 25th November @7.30pm Clara | St. Colman Mary Hackett (Month’s Memory). |
| Wednesday 26th November @7.30pm Clara | Pat Egan |
| Thursday 27th November @10.00am Clara | St. Fergal of Salzburg No Intention. |
| Friday 28th November @10.00am Clara | No Intention. |
| Saturday 29th November @10.00am Clara | Kathleen Kelly-Forrest. Ian Woods. John Mulholland. Anne Dunne. |
| Saturday 29th November @7.00pm Clara | Brendan Egan. Peter & Mary Jane Flanagan. |
| Sunday 30th November @10.00am Horseleap | May & John Pettit. Patrick Gleeson. Joe & Shiela Mather. |
| Sunday 30th November @11.30am Clara | Angela McCormack (Month’s Mind). Gerard Tarcey. Eileen & PJ Fleming. Deceased of Dempsey family. Michael O’Brien & deceased of O’Brien & Minnock families. Jackie Rabette. |
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 Anthony Kinahan, Erryarmstrong; and for Liam Corcoran, Church Road: both recently deceased. R.I.P.
‘Today you will be with me in paradise.’
The Gospel this week captures wonderfully the truth of Christ’s Kingship. Dying in agony on the Cross Luke tells us, “The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine and saying, ‘If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!’” They thought that they had won. They thought that the tortured body of Jesus on the Cross was the end of a rebel and a warning to others who might try to oppose Rome. What they failed to see was that in taking on himself the pride and sinfulness of a world in wrong relationship with God, Jesus, in fact, restored the harmony and cooperation between God and humanity and brought to birth the Kingdom intended for humanity from the beginning. Christ is our King and his Kingdom is the Kingdom of God. We are the people who work for the full revelation of God’s Kingdom when Christ, our King, returns in glory. While we wait we will be tempted again and again to join the Kingdoms of this world. We will be persuaded, coerced, pressured, attracted, encouraged and at times it will be difficult – sometimes very difficult – to hold out against these temptations. Our armour is faith in Jesus – his life, his death, his resurrection. Our weapons are forgiveness, peace, joy, gentleness, compassion. These were the values Jesus, our King, lived and they are the values that even death could not stop.
Jesus is our King. We have nothing to fear from the Kingdoms of this world. The Kingdom of God has already had victory over death and with death conquered there is nothing to stop the Kingdom of God being fully realised “on earth, as it is in Heaven.”
The beautiful one-word Aramaic prayer of the New Testament says everything that needs to be said: “Maranatha” – “Our Lord, Come.”
CHRIST the KING
In so far as you did (or did not) do this to my brothers and sisters, you did (or did not do) it to me’ says the Lord.
Collections 15th/16th November- Development Fund: €1,145; Plate: €710; October Offerings: €40.
Thank You Very Much!
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Priesthood Ordination: On Saturday 29th November, Rev Anthony Kerr, from Navan, will be ordained a priest for our Diocese, in the Cathedral at 3.00pm. Priesthood is a gift from God in the service of his people. Let us pray for Anthony and that other young people will offer themselves to the Lord in service of God and His people.
SVP Clara, Horseleap & Streamstown are hosting their second annual Tractor Run on the 7th of December. The aim of this is to raise critical funds so we can continue to provide support to the people in our communities. Please see posters in your area on how you can donate. Also on the 7th of December we will be hosting the Clara Christmas Market from 1.00pm- 5.00pm in the Scouts Den. This event is kindly supported by the Clara Resource Centre. There will be a wide variety of stalls on display and Santa will be on site from 4.00pm to meet the children. So come along and enjoy what promises to be an exciting event.
Annual Samaritan Christmas Concert takes place on Thursday 11th December in SS Peter and Paul’s Church, Athlone, at 8.00pm, featuring the Army Band of the 2nd Brigade, Athlone Pipe Band. Tickets: €20. Mulligan’s Roscommon Rd, Cunningham’s Pharmacies and Athlone Printing.com. The Samaritans are available 24hrs on free call 116 123 for anyone who is troubled or needs to talk to someone in confidence.
40 Hours Adoration – As we celebrate the Jubilee Year of Hope, a special 40 Hours of Eucharistic Adoration is taking place in the Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar, from Friday 21st to this Sunday 23rd November, the Solemnity of Christ the King. Adoration will conclude at 4.00pm with sung Evening Prayer and Benediction on Sunday, with Bishop Alan Mc Guckian SJ, Bishop of Down and Connor, as homilist. Everyone is warmly invited to take part in this diocesan pilgrimage of prayer, praying for vocations, for families preparing for the Sacraments, for peace in our world.
Prayer for the Dead during November
Into your hands O Lord, We humbly entrust our brothers and sisters.
In life you embraced them with your tender love; deliver them from evil & bid them enter eternal rest.
Welcome them into paradise, where there will be no sorrow, weeping or pain, but fullness of peace and joy with your Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Amen.
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Image by James Tissot (1836-1902) and hosted in the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Available from freebibleimages.org