Thought for the Week
Don’t wait for friendship to come knocking on your door. Go knocking.
Broadcasting to the parish from Quin on FM 107.9 megahertz on Sunday at 11am.
Daily Mass this week: Monday to Friday at 10am St Mary’s Church Quin
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1st February 2026: Edwina O’Brien & Sarah Shally
8th of February 2026: Kate Mc Inerney & Imelda Mc Namara
› read more about the churchThis Friday 6th February with Mass at 10am in St Mary’s Church.
› read more about the churchToday Sunday 1st February is the feast of St Bridget, the Patroness of Ireland, a day of celebration of our faith and Irish traditions passed on from St Bridget. The St Bridget’s Cross is a reminder to us of the presence of God in our daily lives and work.
› read more about the churchOn Tuesday 3rd we celebrate the feast of St Blaise, whose intercession we seek with the blessing of our throats. Blessing of Throats will take place after all Masses this weekend and on Tuesday at the 10am Mass.
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The Diocesan Finance Committee has asked all parishes in the Diocese to hold 6 Priests Collections in the year to support priests working in parishes and Pastoral Areas of the Diocese. The dates of these collections are to be the same in all parishes of the Pastoral Area. We hope this will not inconvenience any of our parishioners and we
› read more about the churchThis weekend we start our new box of envelopes. Our thanks to the parishioners and team who prepared and distributed the envelopes in recent days. If you did not receive a box or would like to start using a box of envelopes, please contact Mary in the Parish Office 065 6825612. By using the envelopes, tax payers who contributed €250
› read more about the churchThe annual novena to our Lady of Lourdes and in preparation for World Day of the Sick will take place in the Cathedral Ennis from this Tuesday 3rd February to Wednesday 11th February – the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Weekdays at 7.30pm, Saturday at 11am & Sunday at 11.30am. The Novena can be viewed on Cathedral webcam ennisparish.com
› read more about the churchOur thanks to all the Readers from the Pastoral area who attended the course last Tuesday night. For those who didn’t get the chance to attend, the course will be repeated this Tuesday at 7.30pm in St Joseph’s Church Ennis.
› read more about the churchThe Annual Matt Talbot Novena continues on Wednesday, March 25th, at 7:00 PM in Tulla Church with Mass and Benediction. Fr. Pat Malone, Clarecastle, will be the celebrant on the night. Petitions may be left at the shrine in the church during the Novena. You are warmly invited to join us on this pilgrimage through Lent. Attending the Novena could
Quin/Clooney Apostolic Work was established 70 years ago and since then we have gone from strength to strength thanks to the support of our community. Unfortunately, due to the dwindling numbers of Irish missionaries we will be holding our last display as the Killaloe Apostolic is in the process of winding up. Therefore we would like to announce we are
Céad míle fáilte to our parish website! We want to make our parish website an interesting and worthwhile location for both parishioners and visitors to keep up to date with what’s happening in our parish. We hope that all parish and community groups will see it as a useful resource for getting information out to people. We welcome your feedback!
The Parish of Quin Clooney Maghera is in the Diocese of Killaloe and forms part of the Abbey Cluster with the parishes of Ennis, Clarecastle and Doora/Barefield.
Broadcasting to the parish from Quin on FM 107.9 megahertz on Sunday at 11am.
Daily Mass this week: Monday to Friday at 10am St Mary’s Church Quin
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1st February 2026: Edwina O’Brien & Sarah Shally
8th of February 2026: Kate Mc Inerney & Imelda Mc Namara
› read more about the churchThis Friday 6th February with Mass at 10am in St Mary’s Church.
› read more about the churchToday Sunday 1st February is the feast of St Bridget, the Patroness of Ireland, a day of celebration of our faith and Irish traditions passed on from St Bridget. The St Bridget’s Cross is a reminder to us of the presence of God in our daily lives and work.
› read more about the churchOn Tuesday 3rd we celebrate the feast of St Blaise, whose intercession we seek with the blessing of our throats. Blessing of Throats will take place after all Masses this weekend and on Tuesday at the 10am Mass.
› read more about the church
The Diocesan Finance Committee has asked all parishes in the Diocese to hold 6 Priests Collections in the year to support priests working in parishes and Pastoral Areas of the Diocese. The dates of these collections are to be the same in all parishes of the Pastoral Area. We hope this will not inconvenience any of our parishioners and we
› read more about the churchThis weekend we start our new box of envelopes. Our thanks to the parishioners and team who prepared and distributed the envelopes in recent days. If you did not receive a box or would like to start using a box of envelopes, please contact Mary in the Parish Office 065 6825612. By using the envelopes, tax payers who contributed €250
› read more about the churchThe annual novena to our Lady of Lourdes and in preparation for World Day of the Sick will take place in the Cathedral Ennis from this Tuesday 3rd February to Wednesday 11th February – the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Weekdays at 7.30pm, Saturday at 11am & Sunday at 11.30am. The Novena can be viewed on Cathedral webcam ennisparish.com
› read more about the churchOur thanks to all the Readers from the Pastoral area who attended the course last Tuesday night. For those who didn’t get the chance to attend, the course will be repeated this Tuesday at 7.30pm in St Joseph’s Church Ennis.
› read more about the churchThe Annual Matt Talbot Novena continues on Wednesday, March 25th, at 7:00 PM in Tulla Church with Mass and Benediction. Fr. Pat Malone, Clarecastle, will be the celebrant on the night. Petitions may be left at the shrine in the church during the Novena. You are warmly invited to join us on this pilgrimage through Lent. Attending the Novena could
Quin/Clooney Apostolic Work was established 70 years ago and since then we have gone from strength to strength thanks to the support of our community. Unfortunately, due to the dwindling numbers of Irish missionaries we will be holding our last display as the Killaloe Apostolic is in the process of winding up. Therefore we would like to announce we are
Palm Sunday next weekend – Palms will be blessed at all Masses in the parish. 7pm St John XXIII Clooney, 9:30am St Stephen’s Church Maghera. 11am St Mary’s Church Quin.
Monday 30th March – Reconciliation service for parishes in the Abbey Pastoral Area at 7.30pm – 8.15pm in the Cathedral. ‘Lord, make us instruments of your peace’. Priests available for individual confession.
Wednesday 1st April – Chrism Mass. All are invited to the Diocesan celebration of the chrism in the Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul Ennis at 7.30pm. This
The annual collection to support the work of Trocaire and the Christian Places of Worship in the Holy Land will be taken up at all Masses next weekend. This annual appeal gives us all the opportunity to share with the poor throughout the world. The call to support the Holy places in the Holy Land helps the Franciscan Friars maintain
