Bishop Michael Burrows, Church of Ireland; John Comer, ICMSA President; Mairead McGuinness MEP; Commandant Kieran Carey, ADC to an Taoiseach and James Healy, Macra President at the annual Ecumenical Embrace Farm Remembrance Service in the Church of the Most Holy Rosary, Abbeyleix. Photo: Roger Jones Nine-day charity walk from Dublin to Knock
The charity Mary’s Meals is planning a nine-day fundraising walk from Dublin to Knock next month.
They have issued a call for people to join in the walk for an hour, a day or even the whole journey. The walk begins on Bank Holiday Monday, August 7 at the Spire on Dublin’s O’Connell Street. Leaving at 8.30am each day the walkers will set out from Maynooth (August 8), Clonard Church (August 9), Mullingar (August 10), Rathowen (August 11), Longford Cathedral (August 12), Roscommon (August 13), Ballymoe Village (August 14) and Ballyhaunis (August 15). Finally participants will meet up with Mary’s Meals walkers from other parts of Ireland arriving together at Knock Shrine on August 15 at 11.45am.
Mary’s Meals has grown from its first feeding operation of 200 children in Malawi in 2002, to a world-wide campaign providing free school meals to over one million children daily.
For information contact: Fr Eamonn Kelly on steunanscathedral@eircom.net or 074-9121021, or Gerard Wade on gerardwade56@gmail.com or 085 8037479.
Large crowd attends Embrace Farm Remembrance Service
A large crowd attended the annual Ecumenical Remembrance Service in the Church of the Most Holy Rosary, Abbeyleix in Co. Laois to remember loved ones who have died or have suffered injury from accidents on Irish farms.
The service was led by CofI Bishop Michael Burrows and local Christian clergy were in attendance.
The service was also attended by Minister Michael Creed, Minster Oliver Flanagan and numerous representatives from the agricultural sector.
A number of families brought a handful of earth from the scene of their loved one’s accident to the service, which was carried outside by the ICMSA President John Comer and Macra President James Healy to where a tree was planted as a symbol of uniting the loss of loved ones in one place.