New Year’s Eve Sermon
Sermon at Saint Matthias’ Church, Killiney on 31st December 2006
You turn us back to dust and say:
‘Turn back, O children of earth.
For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday,
which passes like a watch in the night.
You sweep them away like a dream;
they fade away suddenly like the grass.
In the morning it is green and flourishes;
in the evening it is dried up and withered. Psalm 90:3-6
There is a planting of trees on the Milltown Road between the townland of …