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Una Healy, 39, and her ex-husband Ben Foden, 35, both took to Instagram on Saturday to celebrate their eight-year-old daughter Aoife making her First Holy Communion.
A CALL has been made for parishes in Carlow to hold the line on first communions and confirmations for August, as some celebrations of the sacrament take place…
Today is the feast day of the Carmelite mystic saint, St Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi of Florence. A new painting is being inaugurated and blessed on this day at the parish church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Fleur-de-Lys. Today at 5.30pm, the children who are going to receive the First Holy Communion this Saturday will have their confession in preparation of the First Holy Communion. At the end they will pray and offer flowers to St Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi. It was believed that St Mary Magdalen de’ Pazzi could read the thoughts of others and predict future events. During her lifetime, she a...
penguin sandycove, 352 pages, $25.74 Ireland nowadays seems filled with people who are content to ignore, forget, or step around what’s left of Catholicism, including the actual church buildings themselves. Don’t be fooled by the shaky residual attachment to things like First Holy Communion. As I write, almost uniquely in Europe under COVID, Ireland has made offering or attending Mass a criminal offense. Even outdoor confession is illegal. This is the true measure of how things stand. Nevertheless, some in the opinion-forming classes and on social media continue (to borrow a phrase from...
new! jb - all is forgiven - you RULE!! Karen - loved your story....wonder why the Cliff House was a nice place for a family to celebrate a First Holy Communion? Maybe it was a tradition for some Catholic families at the time...