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  Fr Noel Doyle 24 September 1935 - 15 April 2022 Please remember in your prayers the soul of Columban Father Noel Doyle who died peacefully in the early hours of Good Friday and was buried here in St Columban's Cemetery, Dalgan Park, Ireland, yesterday, Easter Monday. Father Noel spent most of his life as a missionary priest in Japan. His obituary is  here . Hamabe no Uta - Song of the Seashore Composer:  Tamezō Narita [The instrument in the middle is an  erhu ] St Columban's Cemetery, Dalgan Park, Ireland

  Keiko Uemura on her First Communion Day, December 1971 Keiko died 27 April 1972, aged 14 To you have I lifted up my eyes, You who dwell in the heavens (Responsorial Psalm). Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel  Mark 6:1-6   (English Standard Version, Anglicised) Jesus went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.   And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?   Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.   And Jesus said to them,  “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own