Thank you to everyone who attended cemetery prayers in Rathmore, Hill of Ward and in the cemeteries in Athboy.  Thank you for the great work carried out to cut grass and tidy family plots in the weeks and days leading up to our ceremonies and for your generosity to the collections in Rathmore & Athboy.

A gentle reminder to continue taking any unwanted flowers, shrubs or greenery and dispose of them at home.

“Since in baptism the body was marked with the seal of the Trinity and became the temple of the Holy Spirit, Christians respect and honour the bodies of the dead and the places where they rest.”        Order of Christian Funerals

  Prayer of Saint John Henry Newman

May the Lord support us all the day long,
Till the shades lengthen and the evening comes,
and the busy world is hushed,

and the fever of life is over,
and our work is done.
Then in his mercy may he give us a safe lodging,
and holy rest, and peace at the last.  Amen.