Happy New Year
We had a wonderful celebration of Christmas in our parish and throughout our Family of Parishes this year. We had huge attendances at all Christmas Masses in St. Michael’s. There was a sense, this year, that attendances continue to return to normal after the pandemic. Please God, this will continue…
Happy Christmas
This has been a hard year for many people and families. While advertisers and social narrative suggest a perfect world, we approach Christmas looking for comfort and reassurance that the promise made to us in our faith will be fulfilled that ‘A Saviour is born to us, He is Christ the…
The presence of the newborn infant in our church crib on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning will put a smile on our faces. Our faces can be tired and worn from the events of life and of the past year. Perhaps this year someone is absent from your house? We lovingly remember those who have…
Sounds and Voices of the Children
It’s important to say that we are still in Advent. Over the next two weeks our church will be a very busy place as schools practice and celebrate their carol concerts and nativity plays. There is always great excitement and energy as the children prepare with their…
O Come Emmanuel
Happy New Year or, more correctly, Happy New Church Year! Yes, we start the new year this weekend on the First Sunday of Advent as we light the first candle on the church Advent Wreath. This one candle looks a bit lost and isolated for a week or two until the full…
02Unexpectedly during the past week, events unfolded in Dublin which have deeply affected people. We think of the children involved, their families, their carers and school community. The subsequent street violence has shaken people sowing fear, doubt and vulnerability. We all continue to be grateful for the dedication and bravery of our emergency services and…
On a pilgrimage to the Holy Land a number of years ago, one of the pilgrims in our group asked the guide if a certain place that we were passing through was in Palestine or Israel. The guide who was Arabic and worked as a teacher in Nazareth memorably replied, ‘this is all the Holy…
This Saturday evening, we welcome the second class children and their families from our parish who are preparing for the Sacraments of First Confession and First Holy Communion next year. We will begin our Do This in Memory programme in the parish with the children and their families as they enrol for the sacraments in…
Praying and Remembering
During the week we celebrated a poignant and beautiful Remembrance Mass here in the church in memory of those who died during the past year. There was a very big attendance as we prayed together. Families were very grateful for the opportunity to gather together in this way. We will continue our…
November
November can be a very dreary time and exactly mirrors our liturgical time of remembrance and prayer for the faithful departed. The falling leaves mirror the cycle of life and death.
As always, Jesus Christ guides us to places where He has already gone Himself. That is the hope of our Christian remembrance and…
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