What Do You Think of Our Church Readers?

The Irish Catholic, 22 February 2024

Feedback, we all agree, is very welcome, provided it is constructive. We can all improve, and people's well-intentioned views can help us do so (in the form, " Well done!"+ "Maybe you could etc.").  What do you think of Ossory priest Martin Delaney's approach to the subject in this recent article?  (For bettter magnification, click here.)

If anyone would like to offer his or her services as reader (and raise the standard maybe!), please contact the reader coordinator for Newcastle, Rathcoole or Saggart. (For contact details, under 'Parish Team' on the menu-bar above, scroll down to 'Parish Groups' => 'Ministers of the Word'.)

Let Us Pray for the Dead 2017-18

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)

Amy Quinn	Richard Grace
Jennie Mansfield	Thomas Browne
Liam Russell	Patricia Timmins
Richard Walsh	Michael Kelly
Annie Timmons	Mary Hollingsworth
Thomas Molloy	Sean Fagan
Jessie Murray	Kathleen Walsh
Patrick Moriarty	Mary Kavanagh (Cooney)
Celine Delaney	Laurence Walsh
Richard Anthony Kenna	Sean Hackett
Brian McKee	Marie Kelly
Anne (Golly) Murphy	Denis Lawlor
Stephen Kenna	Kevin McGurk
Jeremiah Roche	Karen Plunkett
William Crofton	Sharon Middleton
Kathleen Attley	Richard Morton
Joanna Joy	Margaret Proctor
James Mullally	Margaret Stack
Bridget O’Rourke	Anthony McDermott
Christopher Lucey

New Cemetery, Newcastle

William Shorten	Robert Farrell
Patrick McGarry	Ann Coffey
Sean Fitzgerald	Joseph Blackmore
Colin Prendergast	Breda Heffernan

Also prayed for at the Remembrance Mass in Newcastle on Friday 23rd was an East European man called Agris (a Latvian first name) who.worked in Greenogue Business Park  He was found dead in the car in which he lived (located on the Village Green) in late May. The facts of this sad case were reported in the Tallaght Echo for June 1st.  A collection was taken up in Newcastle to pay for the funeral expenses. His son took the ashes home.