Notices

Pope Francis call for Prayer in Afghanistan

After the Angelus the Holy Father last Sunday Pope Francis called on us to Pray and Fast and do Penance for peace. 

“Dear brothers and sisters, with great concern I am following the situation in Afghanistan, and I take part in the suffering of those who are grieving for the persons who lost their…


Pope Francis Encourages Vaccines

Pope Francis encourages us to take vaccines.

In a brotherly spirit, I join in this message of hope for a brighter future.   Thanks to God and to the work of many, we now have vaccines to protect us from COVID-19. They grant us the hope of ending the pandemic, but only if they are available…


Communions and Confirmations

Confirmation will be celebrated on 16th September at 6 p.m. in Kilbeggan.                                                                                     First Communion…


CONGRATULATIONS

Thanks to all who have been so generous in supporting the Renovation Fund. Our debt is now down to €99,000 . This is an amazing response. The Envelope Collections, the funds from the Parish Charity Shop, the reclaims on tax,  generous gifts, concerts, raffles, and other events, have all played a part in reducing the…


POPE FRANCIS SPEAKS TO YOUTH : 3 GREAT TRUTHS WE NEED TO HEAR

Full Text “Christ is Alive” Pope Francis

CHAPTER FOUR

A great message for all young people

111. Putting all else aside, I now wish to speak to young people about what is essential, the one thing we should never keep quiet about. It is a message containing three great truths…


DEATHS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN 2021

In the first five months of 2021, more than 630 men, women and children drowned in the central Mediterranean Sea as they sought a better life in Europe.

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) the 632 recorded deaths represent an increase of 200 percent compared to last year.

Similar tragedies, the Italian Bishops…


Propaganda Fide: Promoting the Church’s mission to the ends of the earth

Cardinal Tagle   

The Dicasteries of the Holy See told from the inside: history, objectives and “mission statement,” how the structures that support the Pope’s ministry work. The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples is featured in this interview with the Prefect, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle.

By Amedeo Lomonaco –…


Statement by Bishop Tom Deenihan, Bishop of Meath on the cancellation of First Holy Communion and Confirmation ceremonies

Statement by Bishop Tom Deenihan, Bishop of Meath
on the cancellation of First Holy Communion
and Confirmation ceremonies.

As you will be aware, Government has, once again, decreed that the celebration of the Sacraments of
Confirmation and First Holy Communion should not proceed at this time. The decision was,
according to…


500 years since the conversion of St. Ignatius.

 

 

In May 1521 Ignatius was recuperating in his family’s castle at Loyola after his legs were damaged by a cannonball at the siege of Pamplona. Bored, he began to read a life of Christ and the lives of the saints. And so…


Lidia Maksymowicz, and Pope Francis

Pope Francis greets holocaust survivor at General Audience

Lidia Maksymowicz, a Pole of Belarusian origin, a survivor of the Nazi death camps and the experiments of Dr Mengele, shows Pope Francis the number tattooed on her arm, and presents him with three gifts, symbolizing memory, hope, and prayer. “With the Holy Father there…