Five Knock Tidy Towns continues at 11.00am in the old Parish Church on wish to thank everyone who contributed so generously Saturday 2 June commencing with , meditations to the recent churchgate collection. A total of €617.90 on the Rosary, concluding with Holy Mass, enrolment in was collected Knock/Shanvaghera. the brown and confessions. All are welcome to attend to benefit from Our Lady’s Heavenly promises. Remembering the Knock Witnesses Margaret Byrne (1858 – 1880) Adoration of Blessed Sacrament Friday 1 June marks the anniversary of the death of Margaret Church of St. John the Baptist, Knock St. Anne’s Church, Shanvaghera each evening Monday to Friday this week in the Byrne, known to her family as Maggie. Margaret will be Apparition Chapel from 7.00pm to 9.00pm. Group remembered at 9.00am Mass in the Parish Church on this day, NEWSLETTER 27 M AY 2018. T HE MOST HOLY TRINITY YEAR B. Four this week. the same church she had carefully locked on the evening of the Fr Richard Gibbons PP Fr Nigel Woollen cc Parish tel: 094 9388100 Apparition. Earlier that day, she and her mother had just returned Pilgrimages for the week from a visit to , possibly because Margaret had TB and SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAYS WEEKDAYS: MONDAY - SATURDAY sea air was often prescribed as a treatment at that time. Masses: 8.00am 9.00am, 10.30am, 12noon, 3.00pm, 7.30pm. Masses: 9.00am, 11.00am, 12noon, 3.00pm, 7.30pm Saturday 2 June: Described by T. D. Sullivan in February 1880 as being in a All Rosary Rally Pilgrimage. (Eve of Sundays and Holy days, 7.30pm) ‘delicate state of health’, Margaret passed away later that year Shanvaghera: Sundays: Mass at 10.00am Sunday 3 June: aged 22 years of age, less than a year after the Apparition. May Mass Intentions for the Week Kildare and Leighlin Diocesan Pilgrimage. her gentle rest in peace. Guided Prayer Sessions KNoCK John Curry (1874 – 1943) in the Prayer Guidance Centre during the Sunday 27 May marks the 75th anniversary of the death of John Saturday 26 May: 7.30pm Ciarán Byrne, Ballyroe. Month’s Mind. pilgrimage season are as follows: Curry , the youngest Witness to the Apparition. Aged just 5 years Monday to Friday: 12noon, 4.15pm, 8.15pm old at the time, John was a native of Lecarrow and was staying Sunday 27 May: 12noon Sr. Paula (Kathleen) Fleming, Perth, Australia Saturday and Sunday: 12noon, 5.00pm, 8.15pm. with his grandparents, Bryan and Bridget Byrne in the village on and Cloonterriff. that evening. When interviewed in 1937 for the 2nd Commission Family Mass of Enquiry (specially convened in New York to hear his Please note there will be no Family Mass on testimony), John stated: “I remember the 21st of August 1879 as Monday 28 May: 7.30pm Jim and Mary Keeley, Derry. Anniv. Sunday 3 June. Instead, the 12noon Mass on well as I do last night”. John’s remains were reinterred in 2017 in Sunday 10 June will be a special celebration for all the cemetery at Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York and he Tuesday 29 May: 12noon Colm Loftus, Carramore. children who have made their First Holy will be remembered at 9.00am Mass on this Sunday 27 May in 7.30pm John and Margaret Commins, Cloonlee. Anniv. Communion recently. Knock Parish Church, the church in which he was baptised.

Wednesday 30 May: 3.00pm Blessed Sacrament Guild. Glór Concert 30th Edition Special Charity Dance 7.30pm Tom and Margaret Jennings, Rookfield. Anniv. The annual Glór Concert takes place on Saturday 2 June for Western Alzheimers in Burke’s Irishtown on in Moran’’s Lounge, Achadh Mór at 9.00pm sharp. Friday 25 May. All welcome. Thursday 31 May: 9.00am Tom Reynolds. Anniv. 30th edition of the magazine. As always a great night’s 12noon Sr. Catherine Egan. St. Mary’s Hostel. entertainment guaranteed. Please support. 7.30pm Mary Cullinane, Churchfield. Anniv. National Learning Network - Féile 2018 Training opportunities Friday 1 June: 12noon Margaret and William Lyons and deceased members A fun walk will take place on Sunday 27 Ma y after Are you at home because you don't know how to access of the Lyons Family, Cloonterriff. 12noon Mass outside the Old Church to support further training? We train early school leavers, LCA stu - our local G.A.A. Club who have qualified for the dents and people who would 3.00pm Holy . All-Ireland Féile 2018 in Co. Down. Your support benefit from additional learning supports. Courses will 7.30pm Tom Egan, Wingfield. Anniv. and donations would be greatly appreciated. give you the confidence to open up new opportunities for further training. We offer Sports Studies, Saturday 2 June: 12noon John, Nora and Seán Hopkins, Ruane. Anniv. Employment Skills, Computer Studies courses and more. 7.30pm Exam Mass. (Basilica). World Meeting of Families official To get details on courses, contact @nln.ie; prayer (094) 9022770; NLN, Breaffy Road, Castlebar. , our Father, we are brothers and sisters in SHANVAGHERA: your Son, one family, in the Spirit of your love. Sunday 27 May: 10.00am Ben and Charlie Caldwell, Esker. Anniv. Bless us with the joy of love. Make us patient and Prayers for the deceased Sunday 3 June: 10.00am Eileen McLoughlin, Adrigoole. kind, gentle and generous, welcoming to those in Please pray for the repose of the soul of need. Help us to live your forgiveness and peace. Chris McAndrew Protect all Nephew in law of Ann Mc Weeney, Churchfield Lawns. families with your loving care, especially those for Bishop Christopher Jones, Calling all Exam Students!! whom we now pray. [Pause] We would like to invite all those who are about to sit exams along with their family and friends to a special Mass bishop-emeritus of Elphin. Increase our faith, strengthen our hope, keep us on Saturday 2 of June at 7.30pm in the Basilica. Bring along your pencil cases to be blessed! For more Marianne Aldridge (), safe in your love. Make us always grateful for the info contact Knock Youth Ministry 094-9388100 gift of life that we share. This we ask, through Christ widow of John Aldridge, former music director in our Lord, Amen. Knock. Mary, mother and guide, pray for us. Bernard Jordan, Saint Joseph, father and protector, pray for us. Friday next Ballinderreen, Co. Galway, is the First Friday of the month. Public mini-vigil commencing with confessions at 8.00pm. Vigil proper 9.00pm Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us. brother of Sr. Sheila Jordan, Brook Lodge, Knock. to midnight. Saints Louis and Zéile Martin, pray for us.