"Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return. "

The Church calls us to penance, by fasting and by abstaining from meat, on this day. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent.

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

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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