Welcome

Happy 2012 and welcome to the Website of Magherafelt Parish, Co. Derry, in the Archdiocese of Armagh. We hope you find our site informative and interesting, if you have any suggestions or comments please feel free to visit our guest book. We soon hope to add a prayer section to our website where visitors may place prayer intentions which will be remembered before the Lord at Mass each day.

Our new year began with a another great Pantomine in the Parish Centre, this year the performance was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Anyone who attended any of the four performances was highly entertained, congratulations and many thanks to all involved.

Our parish Deacon Thomas McHugh, pictured below at his diaconate ordination last year, will be ordained a priest in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, on Sunday, July 1st, this year. A great honour for our parish. Please remember Thomas in your prayers at this time.

The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred on the children of our parish oin Sunday 18th March at 3.00 pm by Bishop Clifford. We keep these children and their parents and teachers who are preparing them in our prayers at this time.

There will be a Holy Hour in the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption this Tuesday evening, 17 January at 8.00 p m

Our Parish Pastoral Council continue to implement their Pastoral Plan for 2010-2012, to view a copy click here. I want to commend our Pastoral Council on their work and pray that it will bring much renewal and blessing to our parish.

Our new FOOP Youth Group (Future of our Parish) is doing great work and no doubt we will hear more from them as the year progresses. There are many active groups working on behalf of our parish, SVDP, Apostolic Work, St Colmcille's Catholic Guides of Ireland, to name but a few, and we encourage them to make use of our website to let the parish know about their work.

If anyone would like to help with the upkeep and updating of our website, please contact me on 028-79632439.

Hopefully there is something of interest for all on our website. We would of course be delighted to hear from you with comments, suggestions or queries.

Le gach dea-ghuí agus beannacht