Welcome

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.

New features on our website are the addition of our parish graveyard where burials and individual graves can be accessed on-line. To visit the graveyard click here.

We have also added a Prayer Request section to our site where people can submit requests for prayer, confidentially, these will be printed each day and given to the priest who is celebrating Mass and will be included by him, privately, in the prayers of the Mass. All that will be displayed on our site is the number of requests made. Each request will receive an e-mail informing them that their request will be included in prayer and at Masses that day. Please note Anniversaries should be submitted to the Parish Office in the usual way for inclusion in the parish bulletin. 

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. Thomas will celebrate his First Mass of Thanksgiving in the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption on Monday, 2 July, at 7.30 pm, followed by a refreshments in the O'Byrne Hall. He will celebrate Mass in St Patrick's Castledawson, on Tuesday 3rd July at 7.30 pm. Please remember Thomas in your prayers at this time.

The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred on the children of our parish on 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.

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.

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