Carol Service 21st Dec 2021 - Thomastown Parish

For this year’s Carol Service on 21st Dec, we have a very special choir participating which will be made up of local frontline workers. We already have the local fire service, An Garda Siochana and staff from St Columba’s Hospital involved. If however you, or anybody you know who works in our frontline services in other capacities would like to join the choir on the night, please let us know by texting your name to Kevin on 087-2213717. You will be needed for a rehearsal during December and then of course for the Carol Service itself. For the year that’s in it, it will be very symbolic to have our frontline workers involved.

May be an image of text that says 'CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR!'

Reflection

Following one’s vocation is a response from within to the needs outside us. A vocation meets the human needs of the world but with a motivation from within. We care for our children and grandchildren not just because they are sick or insecure, but because we love them. this love will move us out to help them in various situations. We find a call to be ‘people for others’ because our heart teaches us that with Jesus we are all brothers and sisters, and that God wants to save the world, and needs our help to do so. This is the Sunday we all pray that our particular vocation in life may become clear and may become stronger. God calls each of us to love God and love our neighbour. This is the first Christian calling at our Baptism; we then find the best way for each of us with our own particular set of gifts, talents and even weaknesses to live out that call to love. We think especially today of religious life and priesthood. There are needs for priests, sisters and brothers in most parts of the world. as a community in families and parishes we thank those who have given their lives in these vocations and pray they may increase.