Parish Groups for Ashford & Glenealy

Contact: Maeve O Connor via the Parish Office in Wicklow  (Email bethanywicklow@gmail.com )

The Bethany Bereavement Support Group is a voluntary parish-based Ministry, which aims to help the bereaved and grieving. In today’s world people tend to be unaware of the grief associated with bereavement.

It is not widely understood that the grieving process may be long and severe. Sometimes a person may need support to work through it in a positive way. It helps the healing process to talk with a trained listener and confront the very strong feelings associated with grief. Bethany members provide one to one bereavement support as needed and also organise public meetings once or twice a year on sonic aspect of bereavement.

This group also organise the annual mass for the deceased during the month of November.

The Support Group meets on the last Tuesday of the month in the Parish Pastoral Centre in Wicklow at 8 PM.

More information about Bethany can be found at www.bethany.ie

All three parishes of the St Mantan’s Pastoral Area have funeral ministry teams in place.  Funeral teams assist at the funeral liturgies. In addition to the teams, there are also a number of Funeral Prayer Leaders who have been trained to lead prayers in the Funeral Homes or at houses, prayers at the graveside and crematorium, and to lead Funeral Services without Mass.