Fr Mark James Leenane RIP

Fr Mark Leenane

Source: Diocese of Westminster

With sadness we announce the news of the death this morning, 6th July, of Fr Mark James Leenane. Fr Mark was at home, in the presbytery at Osterley, and was anointed by Fr Frans Azzopardi who was in the parish to celebrate the morning Mass. Despite the efforts of the ambulance crew Fr Mark was called to the Lord.

Fr Mark had been treated in hospital for a heart attack last Saturday and came home on Tuesday to convalesce.

Fr Mark was born in Dublin on 10th January 1964 and ordained at All Hallows Seminary, Dublin in December 1998.

Condolences are extended to Fr Mark's family, friends, colleagues and parishioners of St Vincent de Paul, Osterley where he had been Parish Priest since 2004.

Information about funeral arrangements will be shared here when known, as will an obituary in due course.

We pray for the repose of his soul, assisted by words from Journal of a Soul, the autobiography of Pope St John XXIII:

Death is the future for everyone.
It is the Last Post of this life and the Reveille of the next.
Death is the end of our present life, it is the parting from loved ones;
it is the setting out into the unknown…
Death, like birth, is only a transformation, another birth.
When we die we shall change our state, that is all.
And with faith in God,
it is a easy and natural as going to sleep here and waking up there.

Grant, we pray, O Lord,
that the soul of Fr Mark, your servant and priest,
whom you honoured with sacred office
may exult forever in the glorious home of heaven.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen

May the soul of Fr Mark, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.