Marshalstown Parish

05/06/2026

05/06/2026

🚨 IRELAND

The latest dig at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has found 6 bodies in which 'all of the latest remains were found in coffins'

Almost a year into the excavation there are NO signs that a single child died of foul play or was buried in a septic tank

05/06/2026

Newsletter for Saturday 6 June, 2026

04/06/2026

A REMARKABLE OCCASION...

Canon Lorenzo Cleary celebrated Mass in his home parish of Murrintown yesterday (3rd June 2026) on the 70th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood for the diocese of Ferns.

A retired priest of the diocese, Lorenzo has earned a reputation down the many years as a man of prayer, a devotee of Lourdes, and a genuine priest of encouragement of, and hospitality to, the priests of the diocese, for decades.

03/06/2026

01/06/2026

ROME 155 AD

Justin Martyr wrote of how he and other early Christians attended Mass:

'This food is called among us Eucharistia [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined.

For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.

For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus delivered unto us what was enjoined upon them; that Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, ‘This do ye in remembrance of Me, this is My body;’ and that, after the same manner, having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, ‘This is My blood;’ and gave it to them alone.”

29/05/2026

Newsletter for Saturday 30 May, 2026

23/05/2026