The Bishop of Galway Martin Drennan has written to his priests asking them to invite representatives of each parish to a service of Reparation in the Cathedral on Palm Sunday, March 28th, at 3.00pm. In the letter Bishop Drennan told the priests – “We’ll be asking God’s forgiveness for crimes of physical, sexual and emotional abuse that have brought shame on all of us. In our prayer we’ll remember all who are survivors of abuse, all in need of healing, in need of the peace that only God can give.”
Bishop Drennan goes on to ask that each parish would place a sprig of palm on the altar at the service “to express the penitential mood of the day”.
“It would be ideal” he writes, “if each parish could be represented and bring a bunch of palm to place on the altar.
Parishes may decide on particular ways to express the penitential mood of the day before setting off for the Cathedral.
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