Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland.
Sunday Saturday Vigil 6.10pm Sunday Morning 8am, 10am and Noon Weekday Masses: Monday to Saturday 10am; Fridays during Lent also at 7.30pm Night Prayer at 8pm every evening. All Masses and Night Prayer are televised and on the internet. Opening…
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Kathleen Keniry; Vera Foley; William Barton; Miah Crowley; Marie Crowley; Miriam O’Sullivan; Noreen Watts, Eily Barry. Lenten Station Masses will be organized after the 5 March depending on Covid regulations at that time.
Mass will be offered on Thursday 25th February at 10.00a.m. at the Church of the Most Holy Rosary Midleton to remember the volunteers from Midleton who died at the ambush and to remember all those who died during or as…
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“We pray for women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society and may have their sufferings considered and heeded.”
Chair of St. Peter, Monday 22nd; An early feast related to an early Roman custom at this time of the year of remembering the ancestors of the family, those who presided over the family fortunes. The feast celebrates Peter as…
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Chapter 3 (nn. 87 to 127) “Envisaging and Engendering an Open World” Chapter Three of the encyclical begins with paragraph n.87. It is an introductory paragraph and from there the chapter is divided in to six sub-sections: (i) nn.88 to…
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This weekend’s Gospel passage is Mark’s version of the Temptation in the Desert’ and what happens when it comes to an end. Mark keeps it brief in comparison to Matthew and Luke. We are told the Spirit drove him into…
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“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future” – St. Augustine
Sunday Saturday Vigil 6.10pm Sunday Morning 8am, 10am and Noon Weekday Masses: Monday to Saturday 10am: Wednesday and Friday this week 7.30pm. Night Prayer at 8pm every evening. Ash Wednesday: This Wednesday, 17th, is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent….
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Mary O’Brien, Mary Lee, Tess Crowley, Cormac Ryan, Bill O’ Driscoll, Tony McDonnell, Sheila Hurley, George Heaphy, James O’Shea, Dinah O’Brien.
(i) 2, Matthew and John; (ii) The missing book of the Pentateuch was Leviticus; (iii) Genesis and John’s Gospel both begin with ‘In the beginning’; (iv) The servants at the wedding feast in Cana; (v) St Paul and he chose…
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“We pray for women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society and may have their sufferings considered and heeded.”
After reflecting on the parable of the Good Samaritan during the week I returned to chapter two and picked out some points made by Pope Francis that struck me most — in n.76 he refers to the injured man. He…
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Conscious of the fact that we cannot distribute ashes this Ash Wednesday, I decided to look at the Gospel reading for that day. It is the same one every year. Taken from Matthew’s Gospel, the passage sees Jesus giving some…
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“Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you” – Saint Teresa of Calcutta