for parishioners who have died in the past year and for the comfort of their families, will be offered next Saturday 2nd November, at 6.15pm.
Please join in remembering your own deceased family members and friends during this time of prayer, music and reflection.
A List of the Dead envelope was distributed to every home in the parish in September, additional envelopes are available at the box beside the ambo in Athboy Church.
Please return your completed list no later than Friday this week, to the Parochial House or to the box in Athboy Church.
On All Souls Day…
“From the very earliest days, Christianity has honoured with great respect the memory of the dead; and “because it is a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins” (Mac 12,46) she offers suffrages for them.” Directory on Popular Piety & the Liturgy
All Souls…
“We celebrate our brothers and sisters who have welcomed the light of God in their hearts and have passed it on to the world,
each according to his or her own hue.” Pope Francis
Holyday of Obligation Mass Times: 10am & 7.30pm Friday
will visit Mullingar Cathedral between 2pm on Monday 21st October until 9pm on Tuesday 22nd October. All welcome
Monday 21st October, Solemn Vespers and Candlelight Procession at 7pm.
Tuesday 22nd October, Mass and Anointing of the Sick at 2pm.
The relics will be in the Cathedral each day for veneration outside these ceremonies.
Pope Francis has chosen the theme ‘Go and invite everyone to the banquet’. Mission, he said, is a tireless going out to all men and women, in order to invite them to encounter God.
World Mission Sunday is the Holy Father’s annual appeal to support overseas mission and missionaries. It takes place in every single…
A new financial year in the parish begins this weekend. The Parish Finance Committee recently met and approved the Financial Statement for 2023, copies of the statement are available at Mass to take home this weekend.
Thank you to all the volunteers who distributed letters, new envelopes and a List of the Dead envelope to…
This weekend we welcome the children from Second Class in our schools who are preparing to receive Holy Communion for the First Time. We support them and their families in prayer as they bring their Do This in Memory candles to a number of weekend…
Candidates from our parish schools enrol this weekend to be confirmed by Bishop Deenihan, on 28th February 2025.
We support them in prayer this weekend as they begin preparing to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Prayers to the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, I want to do what is right. Help me.
Holy…
Your child in Second Class will have the opportunity to celebrate the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion in 2025.
Fr Padraig invites parents to the following: