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Easter

When asked to describe the mystery of Easter Carl Knudsen responded with the following story. ‘Years
ago an old lamplighter, engaged in putting out the street lights one by one, was met by a reporter who
asked him if he ever grew weary of this work. After all it was a lonely job and the night was cold and
damp. ‘Never am I cheerless’, said the old man. ‘For there is always a light ahead of me to lead me on’.
But what do you have to cheer you when you put out the last light?’ asked the news writer. ‘Then the
dawn comes’, said the lamplighter. One light after another did Jesus put out the light of popular acclaim,
the lamp of patriotic approval, the lamp of ecclesiastical conformity – all for the sake of God’s love,
which burned in his heart and showed him the way. At last the light of his life was to flicker out on the
hill called Calvary. What then? We hear Jesus’ voice, ‘Into your hands I commend my spirit’. And then
came the dawn. All did not end on Calvary because the cross was a passage to eternal life. We
celebrate today the Christ who lives and by whose rising a new day has dawned for all humankind. Our
belonging to Jesus precludes any hopelessness or pessimism; any hiding or wandering aimlessly in the
dark.

Fr. Kevin.

Easter 2026

Monday 30th March

7.30 pm             Penitential Service

**Church of Our Lady, Blessington

Holy Tuesday 31st March

3.00 pm             Children’s Stations of the Cross Workshop – Eadestown

Holy Thursday 2nd April           

7.30 pm             Mass of the Lord’s Supper – Eadestown

Ending with a vigil until 9.30pm

Good Friday 3rd April  

12 noon              Children’s Stations of the Cross – Eadestown

3.00 pm             Celebration of the Lord’s Passion – Eadestown

7.30 pm              Stations of the Cross – Kilteel

Holy Saturday 4th April  

11.00 am – 1.30 pm Confessions – Eadestown

9.00 pm               Easter Vigil – Eadestown

Easter Sunday 5th April

10.00 am            Mass – Kilteel

11.30 am             Mass – Eadestown

Easter Monday 6th April

No Mass

Mass Intentions

Sunday 22nd March

Eadestown

Patrick Clynch (Anniversary)

Eileen Corey (Anniversary)

Kilteel

People of the Parish

Mass Intentions

Sunday 15th March

Eadestown

Teresa & Patrick Murphy (Anniversary)

Kilteel

People of the Parish