Please pray for the following for whom Mass will be offered during the coming week: Creideamh agus Spraoi. The Children’s Liturgy at the 11 o'clock Mass Sat 16th 7.30p.m. (Vigil) Tom Cooke, Lakeview. every Sunday. Welcome to the children from Junior Infants, Senior Infants and Petie Conneely, Gortaleasa. First Class, for singing, prayers, a child friendly Gospel reading and some arts David Fox-McDonagh, Scool Road, Carnmore. & crafts. Artwork by the children can be viewed on claregalway parish facebook page. Sun 17th 9.00a.m. John Concannon, Gortadooey. 11.00a.m. Kathleen Duggan, Lakeview. Ministers of the Eucharist. A short course will take place in the Pastoral Mon 18th 9.30a.m. Brendan O’Brien. Centre, Arus De Brun on Tuesday, 5th March from 7.30p.m. – 9p.m. for new Tues 19th 9.30a.m. Special Intention. Ministers of the Eucharist. If you would like to become a Minister of the Eucharist, Wed 20th 9.30a.m. Special Intention. please contact the parish office as soon as possible. Thurs 21st 7.30p.m. Nora & John Moran, Cloon. Fri 22nd 9.30a.m. The people of the Parish. Defibrillator Life saving Cardiac Month’s Minds & all Anniversary Masses. Sat 23rd 9.30a.m. Special Intention. Equipment located in yellow box If families of the deceased would like to take part in 7.30p.m. (Vigil) Gerry Giblin, River Oaks. outside Cairdeas. Parish Meeting any of the Mass, you are very welcome, please Sun 24th 9.00a.m. Bernadette McGough (Recently Deceased). Room). contact the parish office. 11.00a.m. Sinéad McGovern-Hynes, Carnmore (1st Anniversary). Fundraiser. JOY FOR JONAH. The Parish Pastoral Council are organising a Coffee The new Claregalway Church Choir practice every Monday evening in Morning and raffle for Jonah Murphy. Jonah is 3 years old and was born with Hypoplastic the church at 8pm. Please come along or contact Maura at 087 2344123 Right Heart Syndrome. Jonah needs constant care and has had numerous surgeries over the last few years. Edel (Jonah’s mum) is a native of Claregalway and we would like to Folk Choir. Practice every Wednesday night in the Church at 8pm. support her, her husband Jonathan & Jonah in any way we can. You are invited to a Cuppa, rd New members always welcome. Cake & Chat. Saturday, 23 February 2019 from 10a.m.-3pm in Cairdeas (Parish Meeting Room). Bring and buy cake sale, raffles throughout the day. if you like to Altar Society Gluten Intolerance. If anyone has a gluten Intolerance & donate by baking, donation of a prize, please contact the parish office. All support greatly unable to receive the normal hosts, Fr Ian always has Gluten appreciated. (Group G) low hosts at his Communion station. Confidentiality Forms. A reminder Volunteers. A survey has been carried out to see Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will take place in Síoraíocht for the winter to those who deliver the weekly/dues how many volunteers are in churches. We are proud months from 10.00a.m. until 7.00p.m. Rosary at 2.00p.m. for families. Divine Mercy envelopes to households, please and very thankful to have 312 volunteers in our Chaplet at 3.00p.m. Rosary at 5.00p.m. for Priests. Rosary at 6.00p.m. for the unborn. return your confidentiality forms as church. We always welcome new volunteers, and at At least 2 people should be present at all times during the Exposition. Please sign in soon as possible to keep in line with this time we are appealing for help in the Altar & out. If unable to attend for your hour, contact Ann: 0872950896 the data protection act. Society, please contact Teresa at the parish office. THE SOLEMN NOVENA to OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP commences in the Holy Hour Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for Vocations to the Priesthood & th Religious life every Thursday evening from 6.00pm ending with Rosary in the Church. Cathedral on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18 . SIX sessions each day 7.30 am, Director of Vocations Galway Diocese. Fr Ian O’Neill. 11.00 am, 1.10 pm, 3.30 pm, 7.30 pm, 9.00 pm. Sunday times: 9.00 am, 10.30 am, 12.30 pm, 4.30 pm, 6.30 pm & 8.00 pm. No 9.00pm Session on st Cenacle of Marian Movement of Priests. Every Thursday at 10.30a.m. in Cairdeas. If Sunday Night. Thursday 21 SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION. There will be you would like to join in the prayers, you are very welcome. three sessions of reconciliation: 7.30am, 1.10pm, & 9.00pm. Mass at 11.00am, 3.30pm & 7.30pm Sessions, confessions before and after. Saturday 23rd 11am Repository for Memorial Cards situated at Children’s Prayer Space. You may place special session for the sick and elderly, with Anointing of the Sick. Memorial Cards of your loved ones in the box, they will be remembered at Mass on the first Sunday 24th Blessing of Babies and children after all sessions Wednesday 20th, & Monday Monday of each Month. 25th Candlelight Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament at 10.00pm. We would be grateful if Eucharistic Ministers and Stewards (over 18) from the Parish call to the Sacristy of Welcome into our Christian community - Ruby Cloonan-Grealish the Cathedral at whatever session they attend and offer their assistance. & Robert Costello. Congratulations to their parents and families.

Offertory Collection €2,140. Thanks too your for Christmas dues returned. Last Call. Chy3 Forms. A number of forms were sent to parishioners last year who Your kindness is deeply appreciated. Thank you for your continuous help in the upkeep, have contributed over €250 in a year to the church. There is still an opportunity to maintenance & renovation of the church buildings/grounds. Extra weekly boxes of sign and return those forms so that we can claim from revenue. Even if you are not envelopes are available at the church doors, if you are new to the area or if you didn’t eligible it would be most appreciated if you could let us know and you will no longer receive a box at Christmas please take a box and telephone the parish office with your receive a form from us. 2018 CHY3 are due out soon, it would be great to get 2017 name so that it may be recorded on the parish system. Or if you would like to volunteer for forms returned as soon as possible. If you should have an queries, please contact any of the various ministries, please let us know. All help appreciated. Teresa at the parish office. Take Time to Pray Church of The Assumption & St James I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day; Lakeview, Claregalway, Co. Galway I had so much to accomplish that I didn’t have time to pray. H91 YH05 Problems just tumbled about me, and heavier came each task. Sunday Masses: Saturday: 7.30 p.m. ‘Why doesn’t God help?’ I wondered. He answered, ‘Because you didn’t ask’. Sunday: 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. I wanted to see joy and beauty, but the day toiled on grey and bleak. Weekdays: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday: 9.30 a.m. I wondered, ‘Why didn’t God show me?’ He said, ‘Because you didn’t seek’. Thursday 7.30 p.m. I tried to come into God’s presence, I used all my keys in the lock. Additional Mass first Friday at 7.30 p.m. God gently and lovingly chided, ‘My child, you didn’t knock’. Holy Days: 7.30 p.m. (Vigil) & 11a.m. I woke up early this morning, and paused before entering the day. st I had so much to accomplish, That I had to take time to pray. Confessions: 6.45 p.m. - 7.15 p.m. 1 Saturday of each month and on request. Baptisms: 1st Sunday of the month at 12.00 p.m. rd Local theatre group, Compántas Lir, are proud to present 'Same Old Moon' by Geraldie 3 Saturday of the month at 4.00 p.m. Aron for two nights in An Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe ahead of their 8 festival appearances Baptismal preparation meeting: 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7.30p.m. on the All-Ireland Amateur Drama Circuit. Performances are on the 19th and 20th February Fr. Ian O’Neill P.P. Tel: 091-798104 at 8pm. Tickets available through www.antaibhdhearc.com or by phone on 091 563600. Parish Office: Tel: 091-798741 Monday to Friday (10 a.m. - 1 p.m.)

rd th Email: [email protected] The Irish Pilgrimage Trust. Church gate collection Saturday/Sunday 23 & 24 February. Website: claregalwayparish.ie Over 500 children/young people with special needs benefit from a trip to Lourdes each Radio Mass. FM 106.4 year at Easter time. Your support would be most appreciated. Facebook: claregalwayparish.

Knock Shrine. 140 years. Faith Renewal Events. www.knockshrine.ie/faithrenewal. Sunday 17th February 2019. (6th Sunday in Ordinary Time). Today's gospel reading is the beginning of what is often called the Sermon on the Plain. We find a Church Gate Collections 2019. As permit granted by An Garda Síochana indicates parallel to this passage in Matthew 5:1-7,11 that is often called the Sermon on the Mount. As these they are Church gate collections. Please stand at Collection signs and keep entrance to titles suggest, there are differences and similarities between these gospel readings. When spoken Church free at all times. Thank you for your co-operation. from the mountaintop in Matthew's Gospel, we can't miss the impression that Jesus is speaking with the authority and voice of God. The mountaintop is a symbol of closeness to God. Those who ascend Residents in Lakeview Estate ask Church goers to refrain from parking on the grass margins. Thank you. the mountain see God and speak for God; recall the story of Moses and the Ten Commandments. As Luke introduces the location of Jesus' teaching, Jesus teaches on level ground, alongside the Youth 2000 Retreat, Oranmore. 1st-3rd March 2019. The Youth 2000 Connaught disciples and the crowd. Luke presents Jesus' authority in a different light. He is God among us. retreat will take place in Calasanctius College, Oranmore. Begins Friday evening Another distinction found in Luke's version is the audience. Luke's Sermon on the Plain is addressed finishes Sunday afternoon. Includes talks, workshops, daily Mass, games, reconciliation & to Jesus' disciples, although in the presence of the crowd; Matthew's Sermon on the Mount is healing service. 16-35yrs; donation only; food & accommodation provided - bring a addressed to the crowd. In keeping with this style, the Beatitudes in Luke's Gospel sound more sleeping bag! seewww.youth2000.ie, email [email protected] or phone (01)6753690. personal than those in Matthew's Gospel—Luke uses the article “you” whereas Matthew uses “they” or “those.” There is also a difference in number: Matthew describes eight beatitudes; Luke presents just Claregalway/Carnmore Senior Claregalway/Carnmore Active Retirement Group four, each of which has a parallel warning. The form of the Beatitudes found in Luke's and Matthew's Citizens Cards & Bingo every Meetings every Friday morning in Cairdeas at Gospel is not unique to Jesus. Beatitudes are found in the Old Testament, such as in the Psalms and Monday at 8.00p.m. in Cairdeas. 10.30a.m. New members always welcome. in Wisdom literature. They are a way to teach about who will find favour with God. The word blessed in this context might be translated as “happy,” “fortunate,” or “favoured.” As we listen to this Gospel, the Claregalway Parish respects & protects the personal data i.e. Sacramental records, financial contributions, contact information, booking forms etc it holds in respect of the services it Beatitudes jar our sensibilities. Those who are poor, hungry, weeping, or persecuted are called provides to parishioners and others. Recent Civil legislation (GDPR 2018) on data retention and blessed. This is, indeed, a Gospel of reversals. Those often thought to have been forgotten by God are protection now require the parish to implement some new procedures on how we collect, called blessed. In the list of “woes,” those whom we might ordinarily describe as blessed by God are utilise and retain this personal data. We now require explicit written permission from all warned about their peril. Riches, possessions, laughter, reputation . . . these are not things that we can volunteers to hold their contact details and to make contact with. depend upon as sources of eternal happiness. They not only fail to deliver on their promise; our Claregalway Parish Facebook. Thanks to all of you who have liked misplaced trust in them will lead to our demise. The ultimate peril is in misidentifying the source of our the page. Newsletter is now available on facebook. 1423 likes. eternal happiness. The Beatitudes are often described as a framework for Christian living. Our vocation as Christians is not to be first in this world, but rather to be first in the eyes of God. We are The Assumption & St James Church is committed to the Safeguarding of children challenged to examine our present situation in the context of our ultimate horizon, the Kingdom of God. and young people in the parish. Names of parish representatives on church noticeboard.