End of the Missalette and Return of the Missal?

As we can see, Templeogue parish is parting ways with the missalette as from today (Sunday 24th Nov., feast of Christ the King) and proposing, if so wished, use of a missal instead, e.g. that published by St Paul's Publications (Maynooth) at the very attractive price of €10 (see here). Each of us will, no doubt, have our own ideas as to the wisdom of such a move (e.g. maybe following the text in a missalette complements, rather than takes away from, listening to it, since what the reader really does is bring it to life on behalf of the congregation). So we come full circle, don't we, going back to the missals that we used in the 50s/60s but with the following big difference -- Mass in the ordinary (vernacular) language of the people and not in Latin, a change brought in after Vatican II. (By the way, if you would still like a bit of Latin (!), you can get a 2025 Sunday Missal (English + Latin) for another very attractive (though in sterling) price of £9.95 from the Catholic Truth Society in London (see here).) Anyway, it's good to talk about a topic that has come more and more to the fore in recent times what with so much being available online. By the way, as the parish notice above says, we too have the readings on the "the front page of our parish website", i.e. the home page of this site, Parish Website 2 (to your left here).

Remembering Parishioners Who Died This Year

Those who died in our parish of Saggart /Rathcoole/Brittas over the past year will be remembered at Mass in Saggart on Friday 22nd, 7.30 pm. The Memorial Mass for the deceased of Newcastle took place on Friday 15th in St Finian's.

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. (St John Henry Newman)

The names of those who, we pray, have found 'safe lodging', 'holy rest' and 'peace at the last' are here