Calling all Eucharistic Ministers and Readers of The Word: The Abbey Pastoral Area is organising a short refresher course for all who serve as Eucharistic Ministers and Readers of the Word in any of the Churches in our Pastoral Area. The course will be offered on two nights each so as to give all involved an opportunity to attend ONE
Blessing of Babies: On Sunday next 11th January we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of our Lord. We invite all children who were baptised in the parish in the last year to a special ceremony of blessing for their first year of life. The ceremony will take place on Sunday next at 3pm in St Mary’s Church Quin.
Children’s Liturgy / Play & Pray: Sunday, January 4th: Nicola Walsh & Emma Colleran Sunday, January 11th: Siobhan Morris & Marissa McCarthy
Feast of the Epiphany: On Tuesday 6th January we celebrate the arrival of the Wise Men as part of the Christmas story, a holyday. Mass will be celebrated in St Mary’s Church Quin at 10am on Tuesday and we will be joined by the school children to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany.
As our Jubilee year of Hope comes to a close in the coming days, it is an ideal opportunity to offer a few words of gratitude to so many people who make the life of the parish operate so efficiently. Our parish is not a building, but a living body of Christ, a praying community and it is your faith
Year after year the same invitation goes out, “come to the crib”. Stand or kneel or sit before the crib and take in the beauty of it. Close your eyes and allow the peace, the quietness and the calm to surround you, come to the crib
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