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Our Lady's Shrine, Knock
Saturday 31 May 2025
Rev. Fr John Harris OP
For more information contact Máirín Ní Shúilleabháin, B. Div., Co-ordinator,
Tel. 087 795 0325
Email:
Web: www.catechism.ie
Knowing and Living our Catholic Faith
There is a "Come and See" afternoon for men aged between 18 and 40 who may be thinking about Priesthood for the Diocese of Cork and Ross.
It will take place:
Sunday 25 May 2025
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Mardyke House, Cork City (T12 W8RP)
The afternoon will include time for prayer, reflection, discussion and a social dimension.
For more information email
to see an invitation from Fr. Marius and Fr. Cian.
Come and See 2025There's a charity cake sale on
Saturday 24 May
10:00am to 12noon
Marmulane Church
(up the road from St Mary's Church, Passage West)
Entry €5
Charity Cake Sale - Saturday 24 MayPlease 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.
Leaving Cork Friday 6 June at 9:00am Returning Monday 9 June
St. Patrick’s Purgatory, more commonly referred to as Lough Derg because of its location in the lake of the same name in County Donegal, is a pilgrimage site which dates back to the 5th Century. Since then, for over 1500 years, it has been a place of Christian pilgrimage and prayer.
The pilgrimage takes place on Station Island, and it has Saint Patrick as its patron. The original monastery on Saints Island in the same lake claimed Saint Davog, one of Patrick’s disciples, as its founder abbot.
Telephone Paddy on 021 450 2572 for Booking and Information
Lough Derg - 4-day Pilgrimage - 6-9 June 2025Singing the Scriptures: How our hymns tell the story of God
7:00pm Sunday 11 May 2025
Cork Methodist Church, Nursery Drive, Ballinlough, Cork. T12 VX20
Access via Gus Healy Swimming Pool car park
Rev. Eugene Griffin
Kinsal Union of Parishes
"Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures" [Luke 24:45]
Unfolding the story of the Resurrection in Luke's Gospel
7:00pm Thursday 15 May 2025
the Crypt, Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, Dennehy’s Cross, Cork. T12 W728
Dr. Marian Mortell & Dr. Phil Mortell
Cork Scripture Group
All are welcome
Email
Cork Ecumenical Bible Week
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.
Altars of repose
There will be a special walking Jubilee Year Pilgrimage to seven Cork City Churches on Holy Thursday Evening 17 April led by Bishop Fintan
This will begin after the 7.30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper in The Cathedral with a brief period of adoration at the altar of repose.
The pilgrim walk will then proceed to St Mary's on Pope’s Quay, Holy Trinity on Fr. Mathew Quay, St. Finbarr’s South on Dunbar St., St Augustine's on Washington Street, St Francis Church on Liberty Street and on to Ss Peter and Paul's. The pilgrimage will finish with Night Prayer at 10pm.
People are also welcome to make their own pilgrimage starting at any of the churches on the pilgrim route.
This is a special way to mark the Jubilee year and as part of this there will be a plenary indulgence granted to those who participate in the Night Prayer in Ss Peter and Paul's at 10pm, whilst meeting the necessary conditions.
These are that a person go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, perform an act of charity and pray for the Pope’s intentions. The indulgence can be applied to the souls in Purgatory.
The Diocese of has announced plans to bring a group of young adults to Rome to join with young people from across the world in this Jubilee Year
During the launch, youth leaders Fr. Marius O’Reilly, Fr. Ronan Sheehan, Sheila Kelleher, and Mary-Claire Scanlon shared insights on the significance of a Jubilee Year, the logistics of the pilgrimage, and fundraising plans.
Sarah Ryan-Purcell, who travelled to World Youth Day in 2023, also gave a personal testimony about her experience as a pilgrim at that event.
Spaces are limited and filling up fast; for more details and to book in, contact Sheila at
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