Author: Fr. Paddy
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The Pope Video
This wonderful initiative is designed to help get the Holy Father’s prayer intentions out into the world of social media and online life. Please check out the wonderful messages from Pope Francis each month by clicking this link
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Pastoral Area Pentecost Prayer Service
This week, members of the Pastoral Councils from the St. Colmcille’s Pastoral Area (which includes the parishes of Clogherhead, Termonfechin, Togher, & Monasterboice) recorded a prayer service for Pentecost. You can view this video by clicking this link We wanted to mark the Feast of Pentecost, or the coming of…
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Update on the Celebration of the Sacraments
On Thursday 14th May, we received a communication from the Diocesan Office re: arrangements for the Sacraments of First Confession, First Holy Communion & Confirmation. The current position remains: “In light of current public health advice, and whilst we await further detail in the published guidance and regulations in the…
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Dear Parishioners, welcome back!
In line with Government and HSE guidelines, Fr Paddy & the Parish Pastoral Council in consultation with the Covid-19 Support Team can confirm that all Churches will reopen for public worship from Monday May 10th. Our Mass schedule will remain as it was; Tuesdays 9.30am (Tenure) …
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The Shape of Parish – Week 4
The Shape of Parish: What are your thoughts on What it means to be Church, and how we might better be ‘God’s people’, & build The Kingdom in these post-pandemic times. Quotes from a chapter in a new book released ‘Maynooth College Reflects on Covid-19: New Realities in Uncertain Times’…
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The Shape of Parish – week 3
Amazingly after many decades of Catholic education, there are still many parishioners who struggle to know what their faith says about a particular topic, and to understand it. This is especially true about topics such as Sexuality and Morality. While there are a huge number of resources available for faith…
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The Shape of Parish – week 2
The Shape of Parish: As we prepare for returning to public worship, Fr. Paddy would like to offer an opportunity for parishioners to engage about what it might mean to come back to Mass, and what effects the Covid pandemic might have as we go froward. The recently retired Archbishop…
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Vocations Sunday
Sunday 25th April is the 58th Anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations also known as “Good Shepherd Sunday.” The purpose of this day of prayer is to publicly fulfill the Lord’s instruction to, “Pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest” (Mt 9:38; Lk 10:2).…
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Holy Week 2021 – Hallowing the Domestic Church
There have been so many difficulties and challenges associated with the Pandemic, that sometimes we forget to look for the blessings; Hopefully, we’ve all found support through the practical help of others, even receiving a card or a phone call. It’s a reminder that we don’t have to be doing…
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Prayer for the Anniversary of 1st Covid-19 Lockdown
We remember that it is a year since an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s announcement (‘I need to speak to you about coronavirus’) from Washington at 6pm on the 12th March, 2020. In it he said that Ireland would go into lockdown, with schools etc being closed. Little did we know then,…
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