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Family of Parishes NewsletterYear of Prayer, Listening and Discernment
Last September, Bishop Fintan invited us to join with him in a Year of Prayer, Listening, and Discernment across the diocese.
During the year, following our information meetings, there was a series of gatherings in each of the 16 Families of
Parishes, with religious communities, the new Irish communities as well as engagement with our school communities.
The gatherings focused on the themes of:
- Baptism
- Sunday Eucharist
- Review of the Family of Parishes
These gatherings gave us an emerging sense of what God is calling us to do, what we should strive for, and what we must prioritise in this time. Bishop Fintan would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all those who engaged in the journey so far and to those who supported it with their prayer. The Bishop has written an initial response to what has emerged from the gatherings and invites us to read this
Bishop Fintan - Pastoral Letter
You can also read the following:
Thematic Summary from our Family of Parishes
Detailed Responses from the Family of Parishes
Year of Prayer, Listening and DiscernmentMass will be celebrated in Passage West Cemetery
on
Friday 29 August 2025
at 7:30 pm
This Mass is weather dependent
If it's raining Mass will celebrated in St. Mary's Church
Passage West Cemetery Mass - Fri 29 Aug 2025The Finance Committee members of Monkstown and Passage West met in May 2025
Full Financial Reports from P.F. Lynch were presented along with summaries for this website.
Monkstown Parish Accounts Summary 2024
Passage West Parish Accounts Summary 2024
Following the approval and signing off of the Reports the Accounts were then forwarded to the Diocesan Office.
Monkstown: There will be ongoing correspondence with the Diocese around the matter of the Bulging Wall on Church Hill.
Ringaskiddy: Continued contact with the Diocese regarding a derelict site
Passage West: Attention will centre around the upkeep of the Presbyteries until such time as they are likely to be sold.
I would like to express my sincere thanks the members of the Committees for their great help and support.
Fr Dave O'Connell
Harbour Parish Financial Reports
Actions from the Meeting:
- To inform the Diocese that some Parishioners were concerned about the danger around the bulging wall on Church Hill.
- To ask P.J. Lynch for any thoughts on what the Other Expenses of €18,000 might be managed?
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Volunteers NeededThe Eucharistic Procession will take place on:
Sunday 22 June 2025
This year marks 99 years since it began with the first Procession in the Cork city streets taking place on 6 June 1926 where tens of thousands of people participated.
The idea of taking the Procession through the streets of Cork emerged in the years after the War of Independence and the Civil War in a bid to heal division.
The Procession will commence at 3pm from the Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint Anne. A number of additions have been made to the Procession this year.
To facilitate the increasing numbers taking part each year, the liturgy and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will take place on a specifically erected stage and altar on the Grand Parade.
Music is a big part of the procession so we have invited the choirs and music groups from the parishes in the city and beyond to participate. The procession will be led by the Butter Exchange band.
Eucharistic Procession 2025Radio Maria Ireland receives no commercial advertising, no state funding, we rely totally on Divine Providence and the generosity of listeners
We are facing an extraordinary financial shortfall of €69,000. Without your help, we may not be able to pay our wonderful staff, who bring you daily Mass, Rosary, Adoration and Catholic teaching. We are launching our Miracle Appeal Day and we are praying for 69 people who could give €1,000 or 690 people who could give €100.
Please note there will be no weekday 10:00am Masses at Ringaskiddy Oratory or Shanbally - Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary during June, July and August 2025
First Holy Communion 2025 in the Harbour Parishes
The following are the dates of Masses in the Harbour Parishes at which children from the local schools will receive their First Holy Communion.
Online Book of Condolence is openFollowing the announcement by the Holy See that Pope Francis has ‘returned to the House of the Lord’, Bishop Fintan Gavin invites the people of the Diocese of Cork and Ross to unite in prayer to God at this time.
“I invite the parishioners, priests, deacons and religious of our diocese to join as one with the faithful across the globe as we commend Pope Francis to the Lord. We give thanks to Almighty God for the gift of Pope Francis as shepherd of the people of God and we thank God for his selfless service and dedication to the end of his earthly life. We remember Pope Francis as one who challenged us to reach out to those on the margins and to bring God’s mercy to all those we encounter. We pray together that Pope Francis’ call to all of us to make this Jubilee Year a Year of Hope may be fulfilled.
In what was to be his last pastoral message to the faithful on Easter Sunday, Pope Francis said:
‘All those who put their hope in God place their feeble hands in his strong and mighty hand; they let themselves be raised up and set out on a journey. Together with the risen Jesus, they become pilgrims of hope, witnesses of the victory of love and of the disarmed power of Life.’
We pray together now that Pope Francis prayer will be answered and that his soul may be in eternal peace with God.“
An online Book of Condolences has been opened by the Irish Bishops' Conference and people are invited to submit their messages of sympathy here.
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