Remembering our Faithfully Departed

As we approach the month of November we prepare ourselves for our annual time of commemoration of all our faithfully departed. Since 1st November 2025 we have said farewell to 66 parishioners and so many families have had to shoulder the most painful cross in life – life without their most loved ones. During the coming month we will of course pray in a special way for all our faithfully departed, but in those prayers it’s only right to also give thanks for the goodness of their lives because that is what made them all so special and to honour them by not only thinking of what they were and did, but honouring them by building the goodness of their lives into a legacy of good works lived by us all so that they may never be forgotten and may ever bless our world.  We pray for those who struggle most now in their loss, whether a recent or a long lived struggle.  To pray is wonderful, but sometimes the best prayer is a little time given, a listening ear offered or just a gentle help to face life again with the hand of friendship at our back.  This month remember fondly, love generously and if you can ease the burden of life for any bereaved soul that may just be the greatest prayer of all.

Our annual novena of Masses for all on the Parish List of the Dead will begin on Tuesday 27th October and conclude with the annual Remembrance Mass on Wednesday 4th November.  

May God grant rest to the departed, strength to the bereaved and eternal life to us all one day in His Kingdom.

With every blessing – Fr O’Neill