Remembering our loved ones.
Every year a special Mass for the departed is said in each church and, after Mass, the priest blesses
the graves. For this occasion parishioners make a special effort to attend to their family plots and
array them with flowers. The graveyard committees, too, ensure that the grass, paths, and borders
are looking their best. This year, Mass was said in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Fenor,
on Thursday August 5th, and in the Sacred Heart Church, Dunhill, on Tuesday August 10th.
As the graves were looking particularly well, we took quite a few photos and have presented them
in two galleries for you to look at. We couldn't show all the graves as there are too many so we
simply showed a selection. You can see the photographs if you click the links opposite.
Presentation to Fr. Purcell.
At the Fenor Mass Fr. Paul Murphy, the parish administrator, presented Fr. Gerard Purcell with a
token of our esteem and gratitude on the occasion of his 60th year as a priest, many of those
years having been spent as our parish priest. The two photographs below were taken during the
Mass (thanks to Geraldine Middleton).
