Westport Parish Newsletter Reek Sunday 27th July
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FREE GUIDED TOUR OF:
St. Mary’s Church on Thursday’s at 2pm during the summer. Watch out for the sign outside the church. Thanks to our Tour Guide Barbara Rabbett.
LOUGH DERG: JUBILEE YEAR:
Three-day Pilgrimage to Lough Derg, Friday 8th Aug – Sun 10th. Bus departing from St. Mary’s Church, Westport @ 8.00a.m. Ph No. 087-7401391
COVIE WEEK 2025:
Continues until 31st July, for more details see Poster on notice board.
NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS PILGRIMAGE 2025:
Celebrating the world day for grandparents and the elderly Sunday 27th July 2025 at Knock Shrine
See Poster on notice board.
PRAYER FOR GRANDPARENTS:
Lord Jesus, you were born of the Virgin Mary, the daughter of Saints Joachim and Anne. Look with love on grandparents the world over. Protect them! They are a source of enrichment for families, for the Church and for all of society. Support them! As they grow older, may they continue to be for their families’ strong pillars of Gospel faith, guardians of noble domestic ideals, living treasuries of sound religious traditions. Make them teachers of wisdom and courage, that they pass on to future generations the fruits of the mature human and spiritual experience. Lord Jesus, help families and society to value the presence and role of grandparents. May they never be ignored or excluded, but always encounter respect and love. Help them to live serenely and to feel welcomed in all the years of life which you give them. Mary, Mother of all the living. Amen.
THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025:
Pilgrims of hope Croagh Patrick Exhibition will be in the Town Hall Theatre Westport during the month of July. Thanks to all who supported this exhibition.
The Croagh Patrick’s Exhibition also continues at the back of St. Mary’s Church Westport this sacred landscape for future generations.
LEAVE NO TRACE:
Interested in becoming a Croagh Patrick Volunteer
Ambassador? Help to protect the Mountain’s fragile ecosystems and deep cultural heritage
Welcome visitors and offer guidance
Please contact: - leavenotraceireland.org
YOUTH 2000 SUMMER FESTIVAL:
Register online at Youth2000.ie or for more information contact [email protected] - see you there!
PATRICK’S PATH. A SPIRITUAL GUIDE 4:
On the summit – a moment to bow your head
“Praise God in his holy place”. Ps 150:1
Lord, I’ve made it! And I thank and praise you!
I thank you for the beauty of creation, the wonder of my being, the challenge of life’s path, the promise of eternity, the gifts of endurance and hope, the blessing of people along the way. I thank you, above all, for drawing me towards you: towards the realisation that I am loved, that my life truly matters, that you seek my friendship and want me to share in the task of making your kingdom come…I thak and praise you, my Lord and my God!
During the time on the summit find a place for yourself to stand, sit or kneel. Be still. God is present. Listen to the promptings of His Spirit. Speak from your heart. Remember, also, your departed loved ones. Their life’s pilgrimage is over. Commend them to the Lord: Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. Amen.
REEK SUNDAY NOTICE:
2025 is the Jubilee Year Pilgrims of Hope. This year the Annual Pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick takes place on the weekend of July 25th – 27th. Reek Sunday is on July 27th
Pilgrimage Mass on the Summit is at 10.00a.m.
Evening Mass in Murrisk Car Park at 7.30p.m.
Reek Saturday July 26th 8.30am
Tochar Phádraigh Pilgrims of Hope Jubilee Pilgrimage at Ballintubber. Contact 094-9030934
6.30p.m. Vigil Mass in St. Mary’s Church, Westport with Archbishop Francis Duffy.
Reek Sunday Masses hourly on the Summit from 8.00a.m. – 2.00p.m. Confessions 7.30a.m. -2.00PM.
FÁILTE CUPPA:
Sunday 27th July after 11.00a.m. Mass in Carrowbeg House. All welcome.
MÁMÉAN:
The annual August pilgrimage to Máméan will take place on Sunday, 3 August 2025. Turas na Croise at 3.00 p.m. followed by Mass.
MINI VIGIL KNOCK
The monthly mini vigil takes place on Friday, August 1st at Knock Shrine. Confessions from 8pm to 9pm in the Chapel of Reconciliation. Vigil takes place from 9pm to Midnight in Knock Parish Church. All are welcome.
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP:
Bereavement Support Group meeting at the Family Centre, knock each Wednesday at 11am.No booking required. Further information from Monica Morley on 094-9375320
