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Let God's light shine forth
Benedict XVI
Morning sunlight . . through glass . . upon stone Rathkenny Parish Church
just after 9am weekday Mass
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 The Month of the
Holy Family
The Son of God chose to be born into a human family, in an obscure town on the periphery of the Roman Empire. Although the Gospels tell us little about the first thirty years of his life, we can imagine that Jesus led a very "normal” family life. Pope Francis
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 ORDINARY TIME
From the end of the Christmas Season until Ash Wednesday and from the end of Pentecost until the first Sunday of Advent, the Church is in Ordinary Time...but is it ordinary?
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Catholic hospital may have performed Ireland’s first abortion
Pro-life advocates assembled outside Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, just north of Dublin, after social media claims that the first abortion was scheduled to take place at the Catholic medical center on Jan. 7. Catholic priests asked for prayers so that the mother of the endangered child might have a change of heart.
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 THE ANGELUS BELL
which first tolled from this church in Rathkenny in 1869, and silent since 1974, rings out once more from the old belfry...
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