Let Us Pray for the Dead 2016-2017

May He support us all day long, 
till the shades lengthen and the evening comes, 
and the busy world is hushed, 
and the fever of life is over,              
and our work is done.

Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, 
and a holy rest,
and peace at the last.   (John Henry Newman)

Saggart Cemetery (New Section)

Maura Browne	Wayne Keogh
Michael O'Dwyer	Christine O'Reilly
Christina Blackburn	Mary Dullaghan
Frances Whelan	Judy Lucey
Mary Drury	Bernie Callaghan
Eamonn Fitzgerald	Michaela Gonda
John O’Brien	Denis Kelly
Joan Mulvaney	Carmel McDermott
Rose McGlynn	Monica Hanlon
Charles Rudden	Maura Greaney
John Paul English	Eamonn Kenny
Elizabeth Erritty	Thomas Fairbanks
Brian O’Brien	Mary Gibbons
Marie O'Dwyer	Barry Lenihan
Joseph Rainsford	Thomas Moore
Susan Gibbons	James Murphy
Donald Hall	Esther Kenny
Kevin Shiji	Thomas Joyce
Jean Gordon	Eileen Ryan
Declan Slater	John Malone

New Cemetery, Newcastle

Joseph Sharry	Ernest Mooney
Ellen Fox	Patrick Farrell
Noel Mannix	Mary Rogers
Stephen Donnelly	Matthew Lee
Ann Kelly	Angela Burke
Una Healy	Imelda Nolan
Mary Condron	Mary Feely
May Hayes	Mai O’Reilly
James Kilgallon	Brenda Tier
Agnes Janssens	Robert Burke
Pauline Cullen	James Leonard

Louis Delahogue's Tribute to Fr Andrew Hart

Anno 1815
From the Epitaph of Fr Andrew Hart,  St Mary's, Saggart           

                            

                          A Little Historic Moment

Two years ago, on Sunday 22 November 2015, the bicentenary was marked of the death of Fr Andrew Hart, P.P. of the ‘United Parishes of Saggart, Rathcoole and Newcastle Lyons’ (d. 20 November 1815, aged 30).  Since the Mass that morning happened to be a children’s Communion Preparation Mass, the talk delivered by Donal McMahon had to be adapted for a young audience, with the emphasis being put on the 'man on the wall' (see the report here). On Sunday 19th this year, the day before his anniversary, Fr Hart’s life was again recalled, this time for grown-ups. On this occasion the focus was the address (in Latin) given to the students in Maynooth the day after Fr Hart’s funeral by Louis Delahogue, the French-born Professor of Theology who had taught him there, had known him there later as Dean, and who had attended his funeral. This address was now heard for the first time in English more than two hundred years later in Fr Hart's own parish church, not far away from the site of his burial, a site distinguished, as we know, by a fine life-sized effigy.

          Andrew Hart and Louis Gilles Delahogue