by Gerard Bennett | Feb 5, 2025 | Events
Our Perpetual Novena to St Anthony takes place every Tuesday night at 8:00pm. Mass is celebrated and with have the Novena prayers before blessing with a relic of St Anthony. We look forward to welcoming...
by Gerard Bennett | Feb 2, 2025 | Events
Feast of St Blaise – Blessing of the Throats The feast of St Blaise takes place on Monday, February 3. As this is a Bank Holiday, blessing of throats will take place after the 9:00am Mass on Monday morning. Thereafter, the main opportunities for a...
by Gerard Bennett | Jan 20, 2025 | Headline, History
The growing spirit of discontent and political unrest which was manifesting itself among the Catholic rural population of Ireland through most of the latter half of the eighteenth century made itself strongly felt in Co Westmeath in 1797. In June 1796, military action...
by Gerard Bennett | Jan 17, 2025 | Headline, Reflections from Fr Kieran
As we begin a new year, with its traditional resolutions, I thought it would be beneficial to check that our new year resolutions are in accordance with God’s will? And by this, I don’t mean some general sense applying to all Christians, but to the particular calling...
by Gerard Bennett | Dec 16, 2024 | Reflections from Fr Kieran
The scripture readings for this Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday, seem to be a strange mix. We would expect the Gospel text to mirror the earlier readings, especially the first, which calls on the daughter of Zion to “shout for joy” (Zephaniah 3:14) and portrays God...