July Newsletter eJ4

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You can read the newsletter here. As before, this month's issue contains the list of those who died in the previous month but now each name is a link opening onto the information given in rip.ie. 

This issue also contains a Parish Covid Diary (Shadow and Sunshine) giving a graphic summary of the past fifteen months or so of Covid in our pastoral area.  It can be viewed EITHER in the newsletter by clicking on the link underneath the title slide OR on this page here: Parish Covid Diary. There are speed controls in both cases at the bottom left of the screen -- click on the vertical three dots and choose the interval you want between each slide. 

The Diary is, of course, just one parishioner's account (Donal McMahon). Whoever wishes to do so is welcome to send in his or her own diary entry.

Share Your Thoughts!

"Archbishop Farrell has established a Task Force called Building Hope. The Task Force has been asked to begin with an assessment of the needs of the people of the Archdiocese emerging from Covid-19 and to work to support parish communities to undertake a radical renewal, looking to the future with creativity. Sharing your thoughts and experiences will be invaluable as we seek to enable the Archdiocese to act now so as to give effective witness and service in the years ahead.  Thank You".

The above is taken from the diocesan website here.  As a way to tapping into people's thoughts and experiences,  the Task Force invites us to fill in a  Questionnaire.  Even if we don't complete the questionnaire, some of the topics in it might prompt us to start thinking in ways that could benefit our own parish here, who knows, as we 'look to the future' in a hopeful and generous spirit. 

Deadline for completion of questionnaire: 18th July.

Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803-1878) and Our Former P.P. Fr Ciarán O'Carroll

 Photo from diocesan website

Report from the Irish Times, 25th June: "The remains of Ireland’s first cardinal and architect of the Catholic Church on this island were removed from Clonliffe College in Dublin this morning and reinterred at the Pro-Cathedral crypt in the city centre. Since his death in 1878 Cardinal Cullen has rested beneath the high altar of the chapel at Clonliffe, a college he founded in 1854. Clonliffe’s recent sale meant his body had to be reinterred in the Pro-Cathedral crypt. The ceremony was marked by a liturgy presided over by Archbishop Dermot Farrell, Cardinal Cullen’s successor as Archbishop of Dublin. Also in attendance was Msgr Ciarán O’Carroll, administrator at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Donnybrook and Cardinal Cullen’s successor as former rector of the Irish College in Rome. Msgr O’Carroll is also author of the 2009 biography Paul Cardinal Cullen : Portrait of a Practical Nationalist."

Msgr O'Carroll (seen in photo above) was parish priest of Saggart, Rathcoole and Brittas from 2004 to 2008. (Newcastle was a parish of its own from 1974 to 2010.) For the life of Cardinal Cullen see the Dictionary of Irish Biography here.