Death Notice

Fr. McGoran celebrating Mass in Clonard, during the Solemn Novena of 2001
Father Robert G. McGoran, C.Ss.R.
Died in hospital 12th December 9:15 am May he Rest in Peace

Funeral arrangements
Removal from Clonard Monastery, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday evening (14th December) to Clonard Church, arriving for the 6.15 p.m. Mass,

Funeral Mass on Friday (15th December) at 11.30 a.m. with burial immediately afterwards to Miltown Cemetery.

McNIFFE
Please pray for the happy repose of the soul of Fr. Maurice McNiffe, Columban Missionary, who died on Friday 27th October 2006.  Fr. Maurice was the brother of the late Fr. Charles McNiffe, C.Ss.R., of Clonard Monastery, who died in Belfast in 1997.

R.I.P.

McKEEVER
Please pray for the happy repose of the soul of Patrick McKeever (late of Brookvale House, Cliftonville Avenue, Belfast), who died on Friday 22nd September 2006, at the Mater Hospital, Belfast. He was the father of Fr. Martin McKeever, C.Ss.R. (Rome).

He is mourned by his wife, Catherine, sons and daughters: Mary, Ann, Gerard, Fr. Martin, John, Patricia, Pauline, Angela, Michael and family circle.

Requiem Mass was celebrated in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Belfast, at 10 o'clock on Tuesday 26th September, funeral afterwards in Milltown Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast.

R. I. P.

MULROONEY
Please pray for the happy repose of the soul of Fr. Peter Mulrooney, C.Ss.R. who died in Cebu, Philippines on Thursday 7th September 2006.

Fr. Peter was born in Gurteen, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary on the 18th August 1912. He professed his vows as a Redemptorist on 8th September 1934 and was ordained a priest on 23rd September 1939.

During the Second World War he served as a military chaplain in the Far East.

In 1946 he was appointed to our mission in the Philippines and for the past six decades he has continued to minister in that country. Over the years he held the offices of Vice-Provincial and superior and in his early years he preached parish missions throughout the southern Philippines. Even though he suffered from ill-health in recent years he continued to exercise his priestly ministry.

Fr. Peter's funeral took place in Cebu on Monday 11 September.

May the Lord grant him eternal rest and Mary, Our Mother of Perpetual Help cast her mantle over him.

R.I.P.