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Clondalkin Village Sundays: (Vigil) Sat 6.30pm Sunday 9am Gaeilge) 10.30am (Choral), 12 noon (Family) & 5.30pm Weekdays (Mon – Fri) 7.30am and 10am. Sat 10am First Fridays 7.30am, 10am. Holy Days 6.30pm (Vigil), 7.30am and 10.00am Confessions Sat 10.30 - 11am & 5.45pm-6.15pm Clonburris Sundays (Vigil) Sat 6.30 pm Sunday 11am Holy Days 11am and 6.30pm Knockmitten Sundays (Vigil) Sat 6.30pm Sunday: 10.00am & 12noon (Family) Weekdays Mon to Fri 9.30am Holy Days (Vigil) 6.30pm; Holy Day 11am Confessions Sat 6pm & by request

Parish Office Hours Clondalkin: Mon-Fri 9:30 - 12:30 Clonburris: Contact through Village Knockmitten: Mon-Fri Mass times

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Contacts Village Office/Sacristy 01 459 3520 clondalkinchurch@eircom.net , www.clondalkinparish.com Fr. Damian Farnon, Moderator 01 459 2665 Fr Padraig O’Sullivan, Co-P.P. 01 464 0441 Knockmitten Fr. Des Byrne CC 01 459 2323 Clonburris Fr. Shán O Cuív CC 01 459 3520 Parish Pastoral Workers Christina Malone 085 7162152 Christina.malone@dublindiocese.ie Frank Brown 086 101 8173 frank.brown@dublindiocese.ie

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Ressurection I hadn’t heard much about Fr. Aidan Troy, the Passionist Priest who became famous as the Parish Priest of Holy Cross Parish in Belfast during the disturbances there many years ago. His name came back to prominence during the past week when he spoke about the fire at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral. Fr. Aidan, who is Parish Priest of Saint Joseph’s, the English Parish in Paris, visits the Cathedral once a week for evening Prayer and Confession. I was struck by Fr. Aidan’s interview on RTÉ and his take on Resurrection

“Honestly, I think it’s going to be a bit like Ground Zero. I think many people are going to go to Notre Dame now as a shrine, as it’s being rebuilt. I think it will have even more visitors come to look at it and just to pay homage to something that we’ve lost. “I may not live to see it, but I know it will come back. “It’s a bit like the story of this week, there will be a resurrection, I’ve absolutely no doubt about that. “Just as Jesus Christ rose, Notre Dame will rise.”

Like you I was shocked and saddened at the sight of the Cathedral being engulfed by fire. The Cathedral has been a place of worship for eight centuries as well as a place for twelve to fourteen million people to visit every year. It is also a reminder of the Christian heritage of France and Europe.

We are people of the Resurrection. When we lit our candles from the newly blessed Paschal Candle on Saturday night, the Church was in darkness and as we passed the candles to others in the Church, we saw how we can spread the light of Christ. We must bring this light to those we share our lives with during this Easter season.

Finally, thanks to all who contributed in any way to our Holy Week, Triduum and Easter Liturgies. Listing names inevitably leads to omitting someone, so, to one and all ‘Thanks’. On behalf of the Parish Team, Parish Pastoral Council and myself I wish

you a very blessed Easter. Fr. Damian Farnon, Moderator.

Village Church

Sunday 21st April - Easter Sunday 9.00pm Vigil Mass 9.00am Mass offered for Parishioners ’ Intentions 10.30am Phyllis McCarthy (1st An) Paul Maher (An), Jim Nash (9th An), Seán Harrington (Thanksgiving) 12noon Mass offered for Parishioners ’ Intentions 1.00pm Mass for African Community

No evening Mass on Easter Sunday Tuesday 23rd April 10.00am Sr. Catherine Maria Flynn (Rem) Wednesday 24th April 10.00am Fr. Simon O ’Byrne (Rem) Thursday 25th April 10.00am Austin Gaffney (Rem) Friday 26th April 10.00am Patrick Ryder (8th An) Saturday 27th April 10.00am Joe Byrne (An) Sunday 28th April 6.30pm Vigil William, Mary, Marion & Mae Murphy (An), Tom Doyle (RD) 10.30am James & Josie Fitzsimons, Harry & Catherine Wall (An) Joseph Lernihan & Anne Lynch (An) 12noon Kathleen O ’Neill (An), Pamela Delaney (An) Seamus Archbold (2nd An), Archie McEvoy (28th An), William Caney (3rd An)

Clonburris Saturday 20th April @ 9.00pm - Easter Vigil Mass Ivan O’Sullivan (An) Sunday 21st April @ 11.00am - Easter Sunday Noel McEvoy (An), Cecelia McEvoy (An), Michael Donoghue (An), John Christopher Downey (B’day Rem)

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Monday 22nd April - Miraculous Medal Novena after 10am Mass and Rosary. Tuesday 23rd April - CCPC Intercessory Prayer for Clondalkin Cluster of Parishes. This Tuesday Intercessory Prayer Group meeting in Parish Pastoral Centre 7.30pm to 8.30pm. All welcome. Wednesday 24th April - Charismatic Prayer Group Our Lady Queen of Peace. This Wednesday, in Parish Pastoral Centre. 7.30pm Missionary Rosary and 8.00pm Prayer Meeting. Visitors especially welcome. Thursday 25th April - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Morning: In the Church 10.45 - 11.45am Evening: In the Church 7.00 - 8.00pm. All welcome. (Note: Next 1st Thursday Hour of Prayer will be held on Thursday 2nd May)

Lectio Divina, a time to contemplate Scripture, led by Sr. Anne, takes place each Tuesday in the Parish

Centre after 10am Mass and Rosary.

DAWN MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY This Mass will be celebrated at 6.00am in Corkagh Park as it has been for the

past few years.

Cherrywood entrance is closed due to construction works.

Recently Deceased AUSTIN BOGGANS

Our thoughts and prayers are with his family

There will be no 7.30am Mass from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th April.

This Mass will resume on Monday 29th.

St. Joseph’s Young Priests Society will meet in the Parish Centre

at 10.45am on Wednesday 24th April.

The Knights of Malta will hold a church gate collection after all Masses on

Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th April.

St. Pio’s Glove St. Pio’s glove will be in the home of

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(located on the Rathangan - Monasterevin Road) on Sunday 28th April 2019 from 11am to 5pm.

Contact Betty at (045) 525094 Items of St. Pio will be on sale on the day.

Everyone Welcome

Each day in May 2019, thousands of people from all around Ireland will gather at their local Grottos to recite the Rosary for Faith and Life

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To sign up at your local Grotto, text/call 087 278 6552 or www.coastalrosaryireland.ie

The Villagers We would like to wish all our members a very

Happy Easter! We have had a lovely Springtime in the Club with great numbers

coming along each week. Our trip to meet President Higgins in the Aras must come as a highlight. We also enjoyed our recent talk from Prof Rose Anne

Kenny at the Mental Health and Positive Aging seminar in Aras Chronain. Our usual morning activities of Quizzes,

Bingo and chats take place with a cup of tea and biscuits. Anyone wishing to join us will find us in Quinlan’s any

Tuesday morning from 10.30am to 12.00pm. All welcome!

CAME Clondalkin Adult Morning Education, Monastery Rd - Enrolments for our next short term after Easter will take place Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th April from 10am to 12noon.

This 5-week term will start Monday 29th April. Classes include Pilates, Yoga, Art, Crafts, Gardening, Natural Health at Home,

Spanish. For info ph 014640450 or 0867703445. Mary Seery (Sec)

Monday Club We had a good crowd in the club this morning despite the bad wet cold morning. Welcome back Maureen who has not been with us for a while due to illness. All were delighted to see her. This morning we had a film on Fatima. This film tells the story of the three children, Lucia aged 10, and cousins Jacinta 7 and Francisco 9 who, on 13 May 1917 were playing and minding sheep when they saw flashes of light and noticed a lady appearing to them and told them not to be afraid and would not harm them. The lady asked them to come to the same place on the 13th of each month for the next five months. War was raging throughout Europe and the lady requested the children to pray the Rosary for peace. She told the children she would take two of them with her to Heaven which she did not long after the apparitions, and told Lucia she would be left behind for a while longer. Lucia entered a convent and only died there in 2005. Pope John Paul II declared Francisco and Jacinta blessed on 13 May 2000. The chapel of Apparitions stands on the exact place where the apparitions took place and next to it is the Statue of the Madonna of the Rosary. Our Lady’s is encrusted with pearls and precious stones and also contains the bullet taken from Pope John Paul on 13 May 1989. Times were very difficult back those years and worse things were prevented from happening through the power of prayer. The tough times are here again with famine, hatred, wars, people fleeing from their homes and countries, and only God knows what Brexit will bring. Maybe Our Lady is prompting us all to pray more to avoid more disasters. I know our parish here in Clondalkin is a very prayerful parish with two Masses each week day and four on Sundays as well as the Rosary every day and prayer meetings during the week. We do need to pray for all those situations and for people who don’t pray and don’t believe. We are lucky too in this country to have our own national shrine in Knock and are privileged too that Pope John Paul visited there in 1979 and again Pope Francis in 2018. There is another DVD on Fatima and maybe we can have a look at that on Monday 13 May, the date the story of Fatima first begun. Thank You Frank Brown for setting up the DVD, Frank is always so accommodating to us in the Monday Club. To

Martin, Collette and Joan for teas and tidy up, Kathleen F for the lovely buttered scones and jam, and to you all for coming and making the morning so enjoyable for everybody.

There will be NO CLUB next Monday. Club back on Monday 29 April. Take care.

Happy Easter to each of you and all parishioners who read the newsletter every week. Kathleen R

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