Crosserlough Parish

Mother’s Day – March 22nd

Loving God, we thank you for our mothers,
for all they mean or have meant,
for the love they have shown and the care they have given.
Amen. 

Lá Fhéile Pádraig – St Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Breastplate is a popular prayer attributed to one of Ireland’s most beloved patron saints. According to tradition, St. Patrick wrote it in 433 A.D. for divine protection before successfully converting the Irish King Laoghaire and his subjects from paganism to Christianity.

Christ be with me,
Christ within me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me.
Christ beneath and Christ above,
Christ on my right hand,
Christ on my left.
Christ with me waking, walking and sleeping.
Christ in every heart that thinks of me,
Christ in every tongue speaking to me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me. 

Quote for March 2020
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you”. Carl Sandburg (Displayed on Divine Word Missionaries Calendar 2020)

Feasts during March 2020

St Patrick – 17th March
St Joseph – 19th March

Monsignor Patrick J McManus’ Month’s Memory Mass will take place on Saturday 7th March at noon in St Patrick’s Church, Kilnaleck

Monsignor Patrick J McManus 1921-2020

Born in the townland of Greaghnagee (Parish of Lavey), Monsignor McManus was ordained in Maynooth on 22nd June 1947. Having ministered in Ireland and England for almost thirty years, he became Vicar General of Kilmore Diocese in 1976. He celebrated seventy years of church ministry in 2017 and almost forty of those years were spent in Crosserlough Parish. Monsignor McManus passed away on Sunday 2nd February 2020. He was in his 98th year. His funeral Mass was celebrated in St Mary’s Church, Crosserlough on Wednesday 5th February. He was laid to rest at St Patrick’s Church, Kilnaleck. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Feasts during February 2020

St Bridget, Second Patron of Ireland – 1st February
The Presentation of the Lord – 2nd February
St Blaise – 3rd February
St Mel – 7th February
Ash Wednesday – 26th February

Quote for February 2020
“As spring returns across the land and sparkles on the sea; it brings new hope to wake the earth; Lord, wake new hope in me. As more green shoots and buds appear and winds blow fresh and free; spring touches all with healing hands; Lord, touch the soul in me “. Iris Hesselden.
(Displayed on Divine Word Missionaries Calendar 2020)

Feasts during January 2020

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God – 1st January
St Elizabeth – 4th January
Epiphany – 6th January
Baptism of the Lord – 12th January
St Ita – 15th January
St Agnes – 21st January
St John Bosco – 31st January

Quote for January 2020

“Go build of your worries a strong box have every part strengthened with care; when as strong as your efforts can make it enclose all your troubles right there. Store it in all thoughts of failure, and each bitter cup that you quaff, lock all your heartache within it, then sit on the lid and LAUGH”. Author Unknown
(Displayed on Divine Word Missionaries Calendar 2020)

Feasts during December 2019

First Sunday of Advent – 1st December
St Francis Xavier – 3rd December
St Nicholas, Bishop – 6th December
St Ambrose – 7th December
Second Sunday of Advent – 8th December
Immaculate Conception of Our Lady – 9th December
Our Lady of Guadalupe – 12th December
Third Sunday of Advent – 15th December
Fourth Sunday of Advent – 22nd December
Nativity of Our Lord – 25th December
St Stephen – 26th December
St John, Apostle – 27th December
Holy Family – 29th December