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  • Easter Reflections – 7 Sayings from the Cross

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    Introduction Cry 1 – Father forgive them Cry 2 – Today you will be with me in paradise Cry 3 – Dear woman, here is your son Cry 4 – My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Cry 5 – I thirst Cry 6 – It is finished Cry 7 – Father into…

  • April Gerald and Louise update

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    Hi everyone,  We hope you are doing well. We are now coming to the end of our time in  the UK. We have had a great time although sleep has been in even shorter supply than it was in Kenya – we hope that will improve when they realise they are back in the home that is…

  • How can you help Ukraine?

    How can you help Ukraine?

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    We may feel powerless. What can you do? I was struck by these words: “For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced… For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death.…

  • Dear despairing young person (5)

    Dear despairing young person (5)

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    Do you ever feel like no one understands you? Maybe something has happened to you and you just feel that no one else gets it, no one is there to support you.  Hagar felt a bit like that.  She had been badly treated and ended up pregnant.  She felt no one would understand, not one…

  • A prayer for the family and friends of Oran Donohoe

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    Loving Lord we come to you with heavy hearts this week on the loss of another young man in our local area. On this day when they have buried their dear son, Oran, we pray that you would comfort his mother Jacinta and his father Seamus and their partners, Tony and Ann. We also pray…

  • Dear despairing young person (4),

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    I’m so thankful that you’re still reading these letters because today I have some more wonderful news for you.  Maybe sometimes you feel that life is pointless, just a cycle we’re trapped in. You get up, you go to school, you come home, do some homework, maybe play some sport/work on the farm, and then…

  • Dear despairing young person (3)

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    You are dearly loved In my first letter to you I told you that you are precious because you are made in the image of God. In my second letter to you, I agreed with you that the world is broken, and said that the answer to why and whether it can be fixed is…

  • Dear despairing young person (2)

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    Thanks for coming back, I’m so glad you’re reading this. I said yesterday that you were precious because you are fearfully and wonderful made. But if that’s true why do things sometimes feel so rubbish? Why is there an emptiness that nothing seems to fill? Why is there a pain that nothing can numb? Why…

  • Dear despairing young person

    Dear despairing young person

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    I just want you to know that you are incredibly valuable.  Please hear that again, you are incredibly valuable.   I imagine sometimes you feel you’re not, sometimes you feel life is not worth living, sometimes it hurts so much that you think it’s not worth carrying on, but please listen again, you are incredibly…

  • A prayer for the family and friends of Cillian Boyle

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    Loving Lord, this week many in our community are grieving the tragic sudden loss of Cillian Boyle. Please comfort his heartbroken family, his father Michéal, his mother Maria, his sisters Katie and Ciara, and his brother Darragh, and all his wider family and friends.  Thank-you that you are near to the broken hearted. Please draw…