Join us for a Carol Service

Thursday 18 December

at 7:30pm

Sacred Heart Church, Monkstown

We are delighted to announce that we recently replaced the Church Organ at Sacred Heart Church in Monkstown.

This was achieved with a loan and we invite you to consider helping us by donating to the

Sacred Heart Church Monkstown - Organ Fund

Candlelight Christmas, a heart-warming evening of festive music

Thursday, 4 December at 7.30pm

St John’s Church of Ireland, Monkstown

A wonderful line-up of singers and musicians, including Charlotte O’Connor, Denis Lane, Sinéad Tracey, David Payne, Louise O’Sullivan, Ciara Breen, and Ellen Bolger, plus performances from the Passage West Children’s Choir and Fonn Órga, it promises to be a beautiful start to the Christmas season
Candlelight Christmas

The programme will feature much-loved classics such as Hark the Herald, The Little Road to Bethlehem, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and Silent Night

Tickets are €20 and available from Louise (086 174 8649) or

Book Your Tickets Here

with limited tickets on the door

We warmly invite you to come and share this special evening in aid of Anam Cara (supporting parents after the death of a child)

SMA Novena in honour of St. Thérése is currently taking place up until 1^st October

at

St Joseph's SMA Church in Wilton

Location Map

Mass each evening at 7.30pm
except Saturday 27 September at 7.00pm

Each evening Mass will be celebrated by a different SMA Priest who will be joined by a guest choir/singer

Fr Wilhad Shayo, a Rosminian Priest, will be visiting the Harbour Parishes on the weekend of

Sat 24 and Sun 24 August

He will be making a Mission Appeal on behalf of the Rosminians work in East Africa.

The Rosminians have been in Ireland since the 1840s. Members of the Irish Province have worked in Tanzania where they established the Diocese of Tanga. They have also worked in Kenya.

Find out more about the Rosminians at www.rosminians.ie

Family of Parishes Newsletter

Summer 2025

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Year 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