It’s Lent Again

YOU will be getting this newsletter on or around 1 March, which this year is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent in the calendar of the Christian churches. For Christians the season of Lent, lasting from now until Easter on 16 April, is traditionally a time for fasting, abstinence

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St Edmunds is now Livestreaming masses

We reached a great milestone this week and we broadcast our first services from St Edmunds. On Wednesday morning the 10am mass became the first event to be broadcast followed by the funeral ceremony of Paula Vella. That service was watched by her family and friends in Malta, Australia and

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Canon Jack Madden

Canon Jack died peacefully on Friday 16th December 2016. Father Jack was born on 26 September 1939 in Ballaghadareen, County Roscommon. His father had been a member of an Garda Siochana and was one of the last people to have seen Michael Collins alive before Collins was shot in August

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New Parish Website

Welcome to the updated St Edmund’s Parish website. You can see we have added many new features and you can now update your information on ChurchApp, the new St Edmunds App. Go here to learn more. You can still download forms as before and you will find these in the Resources section. We

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Departure of the Parish Sisters

The Parish Sisters are members of this world-wide Congregation, which was founded in Spain in 1877 by St. Raphaela Mary who was canonized in 1977. The Congregation continues to live in the spirit of their Foundress by daily adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, helping education at all levels, maintaining houses

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