Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland.
The Sacrament of Matrimony is dealt with in the Catechism from paragraphs 1601 to 1666. N.1601 is the definition of the sacrament taken from The Code of Canon Law: “The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish…
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Answers to the Five Questions last week: 1. Our Father 2. Simon and Saul 3. 50. 4. Slane. 5. 94 Questions this week: St. Thomas Aquinas gave a number of proofs {known as ‘ways’) of God’s existence. How many ‘ways’…
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“God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived” : – St. Anselm
Sunday 8am, 10am and Noon; Monday to Saturday 10am. Night Prayer — every night 8pm Church opens after 10am Mass (unless there is a funeral) and closes at 7pm, except for Saturday evening when it closes at 5pm.
Dermot O’Sullivan, Sean O’Farrell.
St. Teresa of Avila had great devotion to St. Joseph. Teresa was responsible for great reform in the Carmelite Order and she would pray to him for guidance. At the beginning of her book ‘The Way of Perfection’ she opens…
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Tuesday, 13th April, Pope Martin I, also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to his death. He was Pope Theodore I’s ambassador to Constantinople succeeded him as pope. He was the only…
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We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis.
Today’s Gospel sees Jesus appear in the presence of the disciples in the closed upper room. This is the first appearance to them since the night of his arrest. He comes with peace — Peace be with you he says…
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We began Chapter 4 last week. We look at the first of the sub-sections in that chapter today: ‘Borders and their Limits’. In this sub-section, Pope Francis acknowledges that the ideal situation would be that “unnecessary migration ought to be…
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Year of the “Amoris Laetitia” Family finishes on 26th June 2022. Between now and then we have been given objectives to work on. One of them is to explore the content of ‘Amoris Laetitia’. At the moment we are exploring…
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“Let not your hearts be troubled” My dear friends, The Pandemic has really rattled us all over this past year and we are not “out of the woods” yet. More patience and resilience is being asked of us. It is…
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Sunday 8am, 10am and Noon; Monday to Saturday 10am. Night Prayer — every night 8pm. Church opens after 10am Mass (unless there is a funeral) and closes at 7pm, except for Saturday evening when it closes at 5pm.
David Hogan, Seán Fitzgerald, Jack O’Keeffe, Bobby & Bina Hayes, Jerry Horgan, Louis Doyle, Annette Madden.