Midleton parish invites all parishioners and especially the children of the parish to bring their baby Jesus figures from your home crib to be blessed at all Masses on the weekend of Saturday 14th / Sunday 15th December in both Holy Rosary Church Midleton and in Ballintotis Church. Children are invited to wrap the blessed figurines in Christmas wrapping when they return home, and to place them under the tree, to be opened as the first gift of Christmas, thus encouraging young children to make the connection between the gifts they receive on Christmas Day and the gift of the presence of Jesus in our lives and homes.