Magazine Launch

Magazine Launch

The 11th edition of the Kikelly-Kilmovee Parish Magazine was launched at Ireland West Airport in recent weeks. As always, it was a lively and enjoyable event.  Full credit to all involved.  A TV feature was done around the launch, including visits to the parish, conversations with some of its people and some footage from the night itself.  The programme was broadcast and is available via YouTUbe.  I feature myself (at the very end).

A card received a heart warmed!

A card received a heart warmed!

On Friday last (February 18th) I had the privelege of baptizing a young girl in Monasteraden.  She’s seven and will, in a few weeks time celebrate her First Confession and a few weeks after that receive her First Holy Communion.  I have known her and her family for a number of years.  We had planned on a baptism before but for a variety of reasons it did not happen at the time.  The family asked me to go back to the parish to baptize her and the priests of the parish were kind enough to facilitate that.  I went into the church and she walked towards me and handed me a card which I put in my pocket.  It was so strange to have the one being baptized walking around, chatting and smiling.  She was so happy.

It was a lovely celebration of baptism – made all the more special because of the sincerity of her listening and watching.  Her dad gently lifted her, as I’m sure he’s done many times, and held safely in his arms, we watched as the Water of Baptism trickled back into the font from her long dark hair.  She was baptized – full of Faith and joy.  It was truly a Spiritual moment.

Later in the day, I opened her card and was really taken by her words.  They were so childlike, trusting and sincere.  I can be a hoarder of things, though I’ve started shredding a bit, but I’ve decided this card is a keeper!

God bless you Kitty Mae Regan – may you bring to others the joy you so obviously received and wllingly shared on Friday last.

A card received a heart warmed!

Pentecost Sunday

Liam Clancy R.I.P.

Hello there!

Just in from 10am Mass in Kilmovee.  It’s Pentecost Sunday and I had a few words ready about something that happened a few years ago on a journey from Galway to Castlebar where I met a man, by chance, whose words reassured me and reminded me I was on the right road – not just to Casltbar but in my life.  In some way, I felt, it was the Holy Spirit at work.

Before Mass I was listening to some music and Makem and Clancy’s version of “Will you go lassie go” came on.  I listened to it and then noticed the last verse and chorus where Liam Clancy (R.I.P.) spoke the lines for the audience that the spoken word could immediately become music and lyric.  Again, this speaks of the Holy Spirit who knows we have within us what it takes to sing the song of Faith and feeds us the lines.  The spoken become the sung – the hidden the revealed and the gift within expressed. 

Listen to to the song but listen especially to the last minute or so – the guidance of a master storyteller and gifted singer, encouraging others to find their voice.  “Come Holy Spirit – fill the hearts of your faithful …..”

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