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Welcome to Ashbourne Donaghmore Parish
Welcome to the Ashbourne Donaghmore website. We see ourselves as a parish without walls, a parish that reaches out to and welcomes everybody. While the parish has to attend to day to day things, essentially it is about deeper things of the heart. Read More...
"Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent". (DH Lawrence, taken from "Dive Deeper" by Michael Paul Gallagher.)
We look forward to hearing from you because we want to listen and engage with you and your concerns and issues. We hope you will get the information you need on this website, but also that all of us will hear the good news of God's great love for us.
While all of us want to share the kind of parish we want -
"The real pastoral problem is simply to make a parish want the right thing, to instil in it a yearning for Christ. Then the rest will follow". (Carlo Maria Martini)
The real question is what kind of parish does God want Ashbourne Donaghmore parish to be.
75th Anniversary Celebrations of the Order of St Camillus in Ireland
St Camillus – Patron Saint of the Sick and Those who care for the Sick
This year the members of the Order of St. Camillus in Killucan, and in other centres in the country, celebrate the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Camillians in Ireland.
A key part of the celebrations will be arrival in Ireland next week of the most coveted relic – the heart – of the Italian Patron of the Sick. The visit to Ireland of this precious relic will commence with public veneration and blessings for four days at the St. Camillus Chapel & Nursing Centre in Killucan – this will be only the third time ever that the relic has left Italy.
Ashbourne-Donaghmore Parish
July Prayer
Jesus Christ our Saviour, in this month dedicated to Your Precious Blood we recall the protection given by Our Heavenly Father to the Israelites through the blood of the sacrificial lamb. Jesus, Lamb of God, we claim the protection of Your Precious Blood for ourselves, our families, our country and all believers. We thank You for showing Yourself to us at Knock as the Lamb pierced for our sins. Jesus, we honour the Blood and Water which gushed from Your pierced side where we come to drink of Your Divine Mercy.
As with St. Bridget of Sweden, may our meditation on Your sacred Wounds bring us to a greater awareness of Your suffering for us and the grace of true and lasting repentance for our sins. With all the martyrs ,especially those of our own country we ask the grace of faithfulness to our Christian calling to the end. Read the full post »
POPE BENEDICT XVI’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JULY
VATICAN CITY, 1 JUL 2010 (VIS) – Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for July is: “That in every nation of the world the election of officials may be carried out with justice, transparency and honesty, respecting the free decisions of citizens”.
His mission intention is: “That Christians may strive to offer everywhere, but especially in great urban centres, an effective contribution to the promotion of education, justice, solidarity and peace”.
SUNDAY EUCHARIST AND THE WITNESS OF CHARITY
VATICAN CITY, 16 JUN 2010 (VIS) – At 7.30 p.m. yesterday in the basilica of St. John Lateran the Pope inaugurated the diocesan congress of Rome, which has as its theme this year: “‘Their eyes were opened, they recognised Him and announced Him’. The Sunday Eucharist and the witness of charity”. The congress is being held from 15 to 17 June.
“The faith”, said Benedict XVI, “can never be taken for granted, because each generation needs to receive this gift through announcement of the Gospel and knowledge of the truth that Christ revealed to us. Thus the Church constantly strives to present the heritage of the faith to everyone. This also includes the doctrine on the Eucharist”. Unfortunately, though, this doctrine “is insufficiently understood in its profound significance and in the relevance it has for believers’ lives. It is important, therefore, for people to have a more profound knowledge of the mystery of the Body and Blood of the Lord”. Read the full post »
