Church St James St. Hugh’s ChurchSecond Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday)

8 p.m. Joseph Scally9.30 a.m. Michael Moorehead First Anniversary11.a.m. Vincent Lennon First AnniversaryPaddy and Annie Claffey and deceased family, Cumminstown

James Hennessey Third Sunday of Easter8p.m. Anthony and Mary Daly and their daughter Úna9.30a.m.11a.m. Frank and Nancy Ryan

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Breeda Bracken, mother of Sinead Egan, may she rest in peace.

We will have a meeting of the Altar Society in the Church in Kilbeggan after 10 a.m. Mass on Saturday. If you are interested in helping regularly or occasionally, please come along.

RAHUGH SOCIAL SERVICES are holding a meeting on Wednesday 1st May at 8.30pm

MEATH DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES 9-14 September 2019. Bookings can be made with Pilgrimage Abroad Ltd, Lower Baggot St, Dublin 2. Tel 01-6359300. email:info@pilgrimagesabroad.ie Hospital Pilgrims contact Pat Lynagh 0876628468

I will bring Holy Communion to the sick and the housebound on Thursday and Friday this week. If a member of your family or a neighbour is housebound and would like to receive Holy Communion,

please let me know.Coffee Morning each First Friday 10 – 11 in the Parish Centre All are welcome to a warm and cheerful environment in the Lady of Lourdes Room . Meet some friends. Teas, coffees, biscuits and cakes provided.

https://mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-james-church Or you can go to the parish web page and click on CHURCH CAMERAS which is on the right hand side of the screen under HELPFUL LINKS.

Your donation this Lent can support communities to adapt to the challenges of climate change by installing

water conservation and irrigation systems. This will help families to increase their crop harvest and grow more nutritious food to eat.  Where your money goes: 91% goes on direct charitable expenditure8% is spent on fundraising and publicity activities.1% goes on

governance costs. Please put your donation for Trocaire in an envelope and bring it to Mass

Blessing of Expectant Parents and Child.

Parents who would like to receive a blessing for themselves and their expected baby can do so in a small ceremony after 11 a.m. Mass on the First Sunday of each month in the Baptismal Area. It is a simple ceremony for expectant parents lasting a few min lasting a few minutes.

Pope Francis continues to speak about the Our Father in his audience on Wednesdays.Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our continuing catechesis on the “Our Father”, we now consider the expression: “as we forgive those who trespass against us”. Since everything we have, including our very existence, comes as a gift from God, we are always in his debt, for our life was not simply willed, it was also loved into being. We can be confident, then, that the Lord will always forgive our trespasses when we ask him with contrite hearts. Yet this grace also calls us to forgive others, just as God has forgiven us. We see this in the parable of the unmerciful servant, who though having his own enormous debt written off, in turn refuses to cancel a much smaller debt owed to him. The message is clear: if you refuse to forgive, then you will not be forgiven. God, however, grants every Christian the grace to be able to transmit to others the precious gift of forgiveness, which we can do with a word, an embrace, or a smile.

We remember our brothers and sisters who have died around the world for their Christian faith. We remember especially those ho have died on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. “The death of the martyrs is similar to the death of Christ on the Cross, because like his, theirs has become the beginning of new life. This new life was manifested not only in themselves - in those who underwent death for Christ - but it was also extended to others. It became the leaven of the

Church as the living community of disciples and witnesses to Jesus Christ. "The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians": this phrase from the first centuries of Christianity is confirmed before our eyes.” John Paul II at he Canonisation of the Korean Martyrs in 1984.

Kilbeggan Defibrillator Launch Day at Kilbeggan Youth Reach Centre Comagh Rd. Thursday 2nd May at 11a.m. launching 4 new defibrillators by Kilbeggan Youth Reach, Shamrocks G.A.A., Men’s Shed, K.P.D.A.. The event is being held in conjunction with local paramedics, guest speakers and demonstration will be held. All are welcome to attend. Rosary will be prayed in Portuguese each Monday evening at 7 p.m. in the Church. Teremos uma missa em português aqui na igreja, Sábado, dia 4 Maio. às 19h. Todos estão convidadosPlate: €1,880 Easter Offerings: €2,510,Lenten Offerings: €250. Yearly Offerings: €200Trocaire: €1,175 Building Fund Envelopes: €545, Flowers: €50. Thanks to all who are so generous.