McDonald Reilly Memorials

16/02/2021

Lent begins tomorrow... here’s a few fasting ideas for you to consider ☺️

24/01/2021

We can learn this when it’s too late... or no matter how many special days we have with a loved one it can never be enough 😢🙏🏼

Thought for the Week!

23/01/2021

Go easy on yourself, it can be quite the adjustment 😢🙏🏼💫

10/01/2021

Good night everyone 🙏🏻

08/01/2021

To welcome, heal, feed, build... let’s do this 💪🏼🙏🏼

Now the work of Christmas begins......

31/12/2020

Sending warm wishes to all 🙏🏼 Stay safe and we hope 2021 brings peace in your heart and in your home 🥰

A prayer for New Years Eve.

20/11/2020

The older we get; the shorter we seem to think life is...

Creative design: Kirstie Arnold

13/11/2020

A lot to aspire to... and a great time to start 🌈

‪Thought for the Day: be the saints of the new millennium! ‬

06/11/2020

Did you know today was a feast day for all the Saints of Ireland 👌🏼🙏🏻 🇮🇪😇

02/11/2020

🙏🏼💖🙏🏼 Thinking of all our customers and friends loved and lost 😔 sending hugs to heaven xx

Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed.
The Church has encouraged prayer for the dead from the earliest times as an act of Christian charity. “If we had no care for the dead,” Augustine noted, “we would not be in the habit of praying for them.” Yet pre-Christian rites for the deceased retained such a strong hold on the superstitious imagination that a liturgical commemoration was not observed until the early Middle Ages, when monastic communities began to mark an annual day of prayer for the departed members.

In the middle of the 11th century, Saint Odilo, abbot of Cluny, France, decreed that all Cluniac monasteries offer special prayers and sing the Office for the Dead on November 2, the day after the feast of All Saints. The custom spread from Cluny and was finally adopted throughout the Roman Church.

The theological underpinning of the feast is the acknowledgment of human frailty. Since few people achieve perfection in this life but, rather, go to the grave still scarred with traces of sinfulness, some period of purification seems necessary before a soul comes face-to-face with God. The Council of Trent affirmed this purgatory state and insisted that the prayers of the living can speed the process of purification.

Superstition easily clung to the observance. Medieval popular belief held that the souls in purgatory could appear on this day in the form of witches, toads or will-o’-the-wisps. Graveside food offerings supposedly eased the rest of the dead.

Observances of a more religious nature have survived. These include public processions or private visits to cemeteries and decorating graves with flowers and lights. This feast is observed with great fervor in Mexico.
Praying in a special way today for all our beloved dead.

27/09/2020

I’m sure you can all relate to this analogy 💫🙏🏼😥

08/08/2020

🙏🏼🌟😇 imagine the joy we could bring to others if we carried out this simple idea 😍

20/05/2020

Pray for this little fighter 🙏🏼

17/05/2020

History tells of lots of hard times; this must have been particularly difficult however I can’t help but think ‘at least he was coming back’

Fantastically sung by Dan McCabe 👌🏼 best version we have heard!

https://youtu.be/QJ35N9Crnfc

Come My Little Son

15/05/2020

☺️🙏🏼👌🏼

Good morning 🙏

26/04/2020

A lovely easy little prayer to say with the little ones 🙏🏼💖🌱

Have a blessed day.

22/03/2020

🙏🏼 To all our ‘no longer earthly’ and devine mothers 💖

Happy Mothers Day In Heaven Quotes, Miss You Mom Forever

16/03/2020

What a beautiful thought 💭.

Last weeks freedom was taken for granted, we are sorry Lord!

While we wait out this ‘reset’ period look after us Lord.

Help us to paint and laugh and walk and create.

We can love from afar and trust and hope that the next time we are close, we will feel the closeness!

Let this period teach us gratitude for freedom and love!

Like never before, let us appreciate and give utmost gratitude to our health care workers and service providers!

Help us Lord to play our part! Help us Lord to stay at Home, to ride the storm and to come out the other side refreshed and full only of love 💕

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌨⛈🌥🌤☀️☀️☀️