House Blessing
Opening
We welcome the light. May the light be a sign of our willingness to make this house a home – a place of love, acceptance and safety for all who will find a home here.
First Blessing – The Hall
May all who enter the hall find a welcome, a…
Post Communion Reflection
Thanks – a word that brings us alive, for what once was can always give life thanks – a word that keeps us humble, for we know that we depend on others.
Thanks – a word that keeps us joyful for we know that in every day there are the meetings and…
Holidays
When Spring turns to summer our thoughts turn to holidays. Many of us are unaware that the word holiday comes from the Old English word for Holy Day. The word originally referred only to special religious days, such as Christmas, Easter, saint’s days etc.
What is the connection between holidays and holy days? Both…
Clane Hands of Friendship
Upcoming Autumn Events…
Dates to be advised in mid August
– Friendship walk in Donadea Forest Park
Come along and bring Family and Friends.
– Art Exhibition
Get creating your own art piece
for display at our Exhibition
– Spoken Word
Write a…
Blessed John Sullivan S.J.
Special Blessed John candles and Rosary beads
now on sale in Clane Parish Shop.
Prayer
God of life and death,
one life ends and another begins,
the cycle occurs again and again
many times we do not see this.
Hope filled cycle clearly
because of our pain.
What we give to others lives
on long after we die.
All of us in the Parish send our prayers, thoughts and blessings to Carla Anderson and her Children Kelly, Chiara, Rebecca, Amy and little Tadhg on the death of their beloved Katie, a beautiful, kind and caring young woman. Katie may you find rest now with the Lord in that place when every teer will…
Today
Today is a time to be grateful
for all God has done in our lives…
And a time to remember,
not to take anything for granted.
Not a single gift or any person
or even one moment in time for
when God gives it…
Prayer for life
Son of God – God and man – as soon as
He was conceived. John the Baptist leapt
in his mother Elizabeth’s womb when Mary
greeted her. Our Lady treasured Our Lord
in her heart and womb until His birth.
We, in our turn, commit ourselves to work
and pray for our…
’We cannot believe in Jesus
and promote war,
We cannot believe in Jesus
and kill the innocent.’
(Pope Leo XIV)