Remembered in Masses
St Kieran's
Sat 11 Feb - 7.30pm - Sonny & Mary Mescall,
Crossmore
- Sheila McMahon
Sun 12 Feb - 10.30am - Tommy & Mary Kenny
Mon 13 Feb - 9.30 am
Wed 15 Feb - 9.30 am
Sat 18 Feb - 7.30pm - Pat Joe Linnane
- May & Martin Crehan
St Mary's
Sun 12 Feb - 11am - Lena Browne (month's mind)
- Sean & Kathleen Ryan
- Marty Joe McMahon
Tues 14 Feb - 9.30 am
Thurs 16 Feb - 9.30am
Sun 19 Feb - 11am - Jimmy & Biddy Sexton
- Micko Hickey
- Pat, Joe & Stacia McGrath

Basket Collection
St. Mary's - €294 St. Kieran's - €161
Many thanks for your continued support.

Shannon Gaels Lotto Results

Numbers Drawn for Jackpot €4,200
14 16 27 28
No winner

€100 Winner: Tadgh Bermingham, Cullenagh

€20 x 5 Winners:
Joan Cahill, Labasheeda
Ray Lowe, Doonbeg
Linda Frawley, Kilmurry McMahon
Simon O'Donnell, Tullycrine
Tom Downes, Kilmihil
Next Draw
Sunday Feb 12th
@
Murty Brownes

Jackpot €4,400

St. Kieran's PPC Meeting
A meeting of St. Kieran's Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) will take place on Monday 13 Feb at 8.30pm in St. Kieran's

Reflections on the Eucharist
Scripture Scholar, Fr Gerard McCarthy SVD, will offer a night of reflection on the Eucharist in Doonbeg Parish Hall at 7.30pm on Wed 15th Feb. Everyone is welcome to attend but we particularly encourage Ministers of the Word and Eucharist.

Bishops' Conference Collection
The annual collection for the various commissions under the auspices of the Irish Bishops' Conference will be taken up 18th & 19th Feb. Please use the envelopes in the series of envelopes.

Lourdes
The Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes will leave Shannon on Tues 26th June and return on Sun 1st July. Cost €670 pps. Booking through Cara/ Joe Walsh Tours, 143 Lower Baggot St. Dublin. 01 2410810. Cost for sick pilgrims €550. Applications for sick pilgrims to Fr. T. Ryan, SS John & Paul Presbytery, Shannon, 061 2410810.

Youth Chamber Choir
The Irish Youth Choir celebrates its 30th birthday this year and are touring the newly formed Irish Youth Chamber Choir in the coming weeks. The choir will perform ‘Messengers' a programme of sacred and secular music sung by Ireland's finest young voices, at St Mary's Cathedral Limerick on Saturday 18th February at 8.00pm, Tickets from 061 331549 or www.uch.ie

Church Music Workshop
Bernard Sexton (composer of the Eucharistic Congress Hymn ‘Though we are Many') will conduct a music workshop in St. Flannan's College, Ennis on Sat 25 Feb 3pm-6pm. He will teach his new Mass setting ‘ Mass of Renewal' and more. Choir members and musicians are welcome.

Commentary on Scripture Readings
11 & 12 Feb

First Reading
Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46
In this reading, we are faced with the reality of exclusion. The person who develops leprosy is cast off from his family, his friends, his community and even his religion. We can't help but feel this is unfair. After all, it is not his fault that he is a leper, so surely he doesn't deserve such harsh treatment. Yet how many times do we treat harshly the person who doesn't fit our criteria?

Second Reading
1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1
St Paul is no stranger to exclusion, having faced exclusion himself for the sake of Christ. In this letter, he is explaining what the sacrifice of Christ means for u s- we no longer need to worry about being clean or unclean, about the foods we should or should not eat. Jesus has changed all that. He has brought us all together in him Jews and Gentiles alike. There can be no barriers between us.

Gospel Reading
Mark 1:40-45
Just as the leper in this story moves Jesus with pity, we too are moved; moved by this man's condition and by his faith. It was he who approached Jesus, he who asked for healing. He surrendered himself to Jesus by acknowledging that his healing was entirely in the hands of Jesus and under Jesus' own will. Are we surrendering ourselves to Jesus when we pray, acknowledging his power in all things? Or do we think we know best? This leper, through his faith in Jesus, saw the shackles of his life fall from him at the divine touch. Are we giving Jesus the same chance to change our lives.

Rachel Brennan
Taken from the magazine ‘Intercom

Patricia Corbett Memorial Walk/Run
The annual walk/run and half-marathon in memory of Patricia Corbett will be held on Sun 19 Feb. The walk begins at 1pm and the half-marathon at 1.15pm. Registration in St. Kieran's Community Centre. Entrance fee; walk - €10, half-marathon - €20. Proceeds from the event will go to the Cain Cleary Fund , the critical Incident Unit in Limerick Regional Hospital and the Rehab care centre , Oakleigh woods, Ennis. Refreshments will be available after the event in the Community Centre. Everyone is welcome and your support will be appreciated.

Eucharistic Congress Tickets
The daily programme take place in the RDS (Royal Dublin Horseshow) arena
while the Mass on Sun 17 will be celebrated in Croke Park.
You can book for 7 days, for 3 days or a single day
before 9th May at www.registration@cssl.ie Booking assistance 01 298 1122
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# 7 Day (10 -16 June) - €95
# 3 Day (any consecutive 3 days) - €60
#3 Day Family - 2 adults & up to 4 children (any consecutive 3 days ) - €285
*Single Day - €30
*Single Day (for OAP & Students) - €28
*Single Day (for child under 16 accompanied by an adult) - €25
*Family day (2 Adults & up to 4 children ) - €95
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# = Guaranteed opportunity to obtain ticket to Mass at Croke Park on 17 June (for additional contribution of €10 )
* = No access to Mass at Croke Park on 17 June

St Mary's Athletic Club
The All-Ireland B cross-country was held last Sunday at Boyle, Co Roscommon. St Mary's club won fourteen medals. Tara Kelly was the second girl home for the clubs and a winning member of the Clare Team that came third among the counties. On Sun 12 Feb the Clare four mile race for ladies and men will take place at Ballyea at 1pm.

Tea Dance
A Tea Dance is being hosted by the West Clare Family Resource Centre at the Kilrush Golf Club on the 12th of February between 3:30 and 6:30. Patrick Roche will provide the music. €5 entry fee. Phone 9052173 for information on available transport from €3 - €5 return.