This year in his Lenten Message Pope Francis has taken the theme of the Exodus and how it can guide us on our Lenten journey. Over the weeks of Lent we will include excerpts from his letter in the Newsletter. This section speaks of God’s message as always being one of freedom.
“When our God…
Wednesday the 14th February is Ash Wednesday and it marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. This is the day when we wear ashes on our foreheads as a sign that we belong to Jesus Christ. It also represents an awareness of our sins but sins we believe that Jesus Christ gave his life…
Brief (less than one minute) daily multi-media spiritual reflections from Bishop Fintan will be available on the various social media platforms every day for Lent, Holy Week and the Easter Octave. Subscribe (at no cost – just click on the subscribe button) to https://www.youtube.com/@BishopFintanMonahan to keep up to date with many events around the…
Blessing of Throats will take place at Masses this weekend.
Let us pray that St. Blaise will protect all in our parish from “aliments of the throat and from every other evil.”
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The annual clergy retreat for the diocese will be in Knock from Sunday January 14th until Thursday January 18th. The clergy retreat is an important time for priests of the diocese to gather, pray together and deepen their relationship with the Lord. I appreciate the sacrifices parishes will have to make for the few days they will be…
‘What made these men of the East set out on their journey? Let us look to ourselves and ask: How is the journey of my faith going? This is a question that each one of us can ask ourselves today. Faith, if it is to grow, has to begin ever anew. It needs to be…
This month our prayer group will meet on Monday 8th January @ 7.30pm in Our Lady of the Wells Church.
Meetings are the second Monday of every month. For further information contact Mary by text only please on 087 3143289.
Newmarket-on-Fergus Parish