Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland.
“This World Day of Prayer offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation, raising to God our thanks for the marvellous works that he has…
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Monday 30th St. Fiacre travelled abroad to find a hermitage. He passed through Normandy and eventually met Faro, who was a great patron of Irish pilgrims at Meaux. Fiacre was given a hermitage near Breuil and there he stayed until…
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ALONE manage a national support line and additional supports for older people who have concerns or are facing difficulties relating to COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Professional staff are available to answer queries and give advice and reassurance where necessary. The support line…
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In today’s Gospel we see Jesus have a go at the Pharisees who he doesn’t hesitate to call hypocrites. In the weekday readings recently from Matthew we have had similar questioning of Jesus and his reacting in the same way….
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“It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.” – St. Thomas Aquinas
Saturday Vigil 6.10pm Sunday 8am, 10am and Noon. Weekdays: Monday to Friday 8am and 10am Saturday 10am. All Masses are televised on Saorview and streamed on the Internet. Church closes at 7pm.
Saturday 12 noon to 1pm in the Adoration Chapel. To get to the Adoration Chapel enter the church and go to Our Lady’s Chapel and use the entrance there.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will take place from after 10am Mass on Wednesdays and Fridays unless there is a funeral when it will begin after the funeral. The Blessed Sacrament will be reposed at 6pm.
Raymond Glavin, Kathleen Glavin, Maurice & Mary Stack, Con & Frances McCarthy, Dan & Anne McCarthy, Eamonn O’Driscoll (Correction of mistake made last week) Kathleen O’Sullivan, Kathleen Woods, Paddy O’Sullivan, Moss Lyons
“Let us pray for the Church, that she may receive from the Holy Spirit the grace and strength to reform herself in the light of the Gospel.’
This weekend is the last one dealing with John chapter 6. In it we see the reaction of those who were listening to Jesus speak about the bread of life. We are told that many of the followers said, ‘this…
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Monday 23rd St. Eugene, lived in the 6th century and was said to have been taken by pirates to Britain. On obtaining his freedom he went to study at Candida Casa, Galloway, southern Scotland and on returning to Ireland he…
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Probably the best known book written by St. Augustine is his ‘Confessions’. He commented about them in 427 and these are the first two paragraphs of what he says about them. It is interesting to see him, in the second…
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“Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow” St. Augustine
Saturday Vigil 6.10pm Sunday 8am, 10am and Noon. Weekdays: Monday to Friday 8am and 10am; Saturday 10am. All Masses are televised on Saorview and streamed on the Internet. Church closes at 7pm.