Parish Newsletter
July 12/13
Parish
The Parish of Lisdoonvarna, Kilshanny, Doolin & Toovahera
Author
Very Rev. Robert McNamara PP
Mass Offerings
CORPUS CHRISTI, LISDOONVARNA 11am: Cecelia O’Loughlin, First anniversary. Sean Garrihy, 12th anniversary. Joe, Patrick, and Mary-Ellen Mooney, St.Brendan’s Road.
Next week: Joseph and Margaret McInerney and their son Peter. Eileen Keating, Rooska, 30th anniversary. Monica O’Loghlen, Prospect Lodge. Denis O’Callaghan, Ballinalacken.
9:30am Mass on Monday July 14th in Lisdoonvarna: Bridie and Peadar Clair, Corkscrew Hill.
THERE IS NO 9.30am MASS ON THURSDAY 17TH ANDFRIDAY 18TH IN LISDOONVARNA.
SATURDAY 7pm VIGIL MASSES FOR JULY 2025
12th, Kilshanny: Michael Nestor, Caheramore. Elizabeth, George, and PJ Greene, Athlone. Paddy Scales, Ballinahuon, Lisdoonvarna, Kilshanny, and Florida. Ann McMahon, Caheramore, 40th anniversary.
19th, Toovahera: John Garrahy, Ardeamush, 2nd anniversary. Bridie and Eileen Deffew.
26th, Lisdoonvarna: Margaret Hurley, Glasha, Doolin.
SATURDAY 7PM VIGIL MASSES FOR AUGUST 2025
2nd, Doolin: Jacko, Nora, and William Shannon, Fisher Street. Michael Fitzgerald, 18th anniversary. Anthony and Bee Moloney, James and Pat Moloney, Ballyvara. Connie and Margaret O’Connor, Doolin, and Boston USA.
9th, Kilshanny: Bridget “Biddy” Neylon, Annfield. Tim Dowling, Listowel. Paddy and Mary-Kate O’Loughlin, Carrowmanagh. Paddy O’Loughlin, Carromanagh and Ennis. Aisling O’Loughlin, Rochestown, Cork.
16th Toovahera: no booking as yet
23rd and 30th, Lisdoonvarna: no bookings as yet.
Parish News
THANK YOU FOR LAST WEEK’S COLLECTION: €1323
LIGHT THE FIRE EVENT on the Hill of Slane is an event of faith-renewal featuring Dana, Archbishop Eamon Martin, and Deacon John Taafe, who exercised his wonderful healing ministry in our parish, along with Deacon Pat Butterly. Together they run the Apostles of Love ministry, apostlesoflove.ie. The event starts at noon on Sunday, August 3rd, and will feature a talk by Michael Murphy on Matt Talbot, who gives great hope to anyone suffering from addiction.
PARISH PILGRIMAGE TO MEDJUGORJE will take place please God next summer, July 1st, 2026. To book your place contact Helen McNamara on 087 9763559.
RELIC AND TALK ABOUT ST. BERNADETTE OF LOURDES: Saturday, July 26th, 4pm, Lisdoonvarna Church. Sponsored by Aid to the Church in Need.
Jesus, You wait for me. You let yourself be found when I think there’s no hope. I need to put down the burdens of my history, my life, my sins, at your feet, to consign to you the weight of my past. No matter how burdensome, how complicated, how terrible, it is always possible for me to consign it all to you, my loving and merciful God, and set out anew on life’s journey. You show me the sick bed can be a holy place, where charity and love turn away indifference, and gratitude nourishes hope. Suffering can make me feel exiled, cut off, but with you it isa place of encounter, a school where I learn to love and be loved, with humility and grace. Teach me, Lord, so that I may imitate this in my life. May the true measure of my life be shown in my relation to the sick and suffering. May I not banish suffering and those who suffer, from my surroundings. May I not exclude those who are frail and housebound. Like the Good Samaritan, may I have compassion for those who suffer so much more than me. Like Our Lady, St.Carlo Acutis, St. Therese, may I have the strength to embrace life’s sufferings and offer them to you, for the Church, and for the healing of the world. Give me your hope so that I may not fear, because with your death and suffering comes life-eternal life: something extraordinary awaits us. (Based on reflections by Carlo Acutis and the late Pope Francis).