Prayer service for peace in Gaza Friday 7.30pm in Mucklagh Church .Please join us in our prayer service for peace in Gaza on Friday6th June at 7.30pm in ,Mucklagh church  The prayers will include some Scripture readings, music and reflections on peace, together with lighting candles for peace. The prayer service is based on a template prepared by Trócaire. We would like to have a number of people helping out with the prayer service. If you would like to help us arrange the prayer service or do a reading at it, call parish office on Wednesday at  057 9378181.We hope to have joint church choirs singing at it. Please help us to spread the word about this prayer service both inside and outside of our parish . Joint Church Choirs —Choir Practise in Mucklagh church on this Wednesday at 8pm (after Mass ) in preparation for Prayer Service for Peace on Friday. Pope Leo XIV reiterates his appeal for peace in Ukraine and calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, along with the liberation of hostages and renewed efforts to protect children. Pope Leo XIV forcefully appealed for a “ceasefire now!” in Gaza, along with the liberation of all hostages, and that humanitarian law be fully respected. “From the Gaza Strip,” the Pope said, we hear “rising ever more insistently to the heavens, the cries of mothers and fathers who clutch the lifeless bodies of their children, and who are continually forced to move about in search of a little food and water and safer shelter from bombardments.” The Pope’s appeal came at the Wednesday General Audience, just one day after almost 50 people were injured trying to receive food aid at distribution sites in Gaza.