Light One Candle… Mary's Blog

Marino Nativity Knitting Group

Marino Nativity Knitting Group completed three sets of Nativity figures before  Christmas and donated them to the three primary schools – St. Vincent de Paul Infant School, St. Vincent de Paul Girls Schools and Scoil Mhuire Boys School.   We also had a great parishioner who made wonderful stables for each crib which can be used for storage and for backdrops when the crib is on display. The group, who only started in Oct, have about 10 members who meet once a month to compare efforts, help each other and chat! We will be meeting in Jan again to plan our next project.

 A highlight for the group  was being filmed by Kairos Communications on Saturday 5th December for the Angelus on RTE over Christmas.  This is being shown on RTE 1 at 6pm every second evening from Christmas Eve up to 5th January 2016.

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St. Vincent de Paul Church, Marino 

Christmas Carol Concert with Nativity Drama on Mon 21st December 2015 at 7.30pm.

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2 October 2014 7.30pm –  St. Patricks Church, Skerries

River of Song

 As part of the programme of events celebrating the 75th anniversary of St. Patrick’s Church, Skerries, the youth of the parish will provide an hour of song, dance and music on Thursday, 2nd October at 7.30pm in the church.  The Papal Nuncio, His Excellency The Most Rev Charles John Brown, will be joining us for the evening.  All are welcome to attend.”

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27 August 2014

25th anniversary of the opening of St. Maur’s Church, Rush in 1989.  Celebration Mass will be offered in the church by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on Sunday next 31st August at 11.30am. 

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20th May 2014

TV Mass

The 11.00 am Mass on Sunday 1 June 2014 will be broadcast on RTE TV from St. Maur’s Parish, Rush. Co. Dublin

First Communion Celebrations

Congratulations to all the children who have received their First Communion recently!

Final celebrations are this Saturday 24th May as follows:

Skerries – St. Patricks NS  10.00am

Rush – St. Catherine’s NS 10.00am      Rush NS  12.30pm

Lusk – Lusk NS 10,00am and 12.00pm

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath  moves through—listen to this music.

    —Hafiz

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The first reading at Mass today (30 Oct 2013) brings great comfort for those occasions when we just cannot find the words to express what we want to say to God in prayer….

(Romans 8:26-30 By turning everything to their good God co-operates with all those who love him)

“The Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to the mind of God.

We know that by turning everything to their good, God co-operates with all those who love him, with all those that he has called according to his purpose. They are the ones he chose specially long ago and intended to become true images of his Son, so that his Son might be the eldest of many brothers. He called those he intended for this; those he called he justified, and with those he justified he shared his glory”.

What great consolation this can give us. God recognises our weakness and makes provision for it and sends the Holy Spirit to help us. And of course the Holy Spirit can make our plea to God in a much better way than we ever could.  We could not have a better advocate!