Year of Listening, Prayer and Discernment – Representatives from our parish participated in a diocesan gathering last Sunday in the Rochestown Park Hotel. Representatives of Blackrock Parish and the other three parishes in our Family of Parishes will meet in the Spring to reflect on the central questions as to how can we make baptism…
November Novena for the Dead will continue until Sunday 10th November. Novena Mass on Mon – Friday this coming week @ 9.30am. November Lists and Envelopes remain available in the church.
Blessing of Graves in St. Michael’s Cemetery on this Sunday 3rd November @ 3pm.
Sacrament of Confirmation 2025…
It already looks as if November will be as expected, wet, windy and the kind of weather that mirrors our liturgical time of remembrance and prayer for the faithful departed. The falling leaves mirror the cycle of life and death. As always, Jesus Christ guides us to places where He has already gone Himself. That…
A Prayer Service to celebrate the Season of Creation will take place in Holy Cross Church Mahon on Thursday 3rd October @ 9.30am
The Season of Creation is a time to renew our relationship with our Creator and all of creation through celebration, conversion, and commitment together. The season starts on 1 September, the World Day…
Autumn – We are already into the middle of September and school life has fully returned. We are grateful that all these things take place without all the interruptions and concerns that we experienced during the Covid pandemic. So much changed during those years of restrictions and trauma.
Things also changed in our parishes. We…
Welcome – Schools in the parish re-opened during the past week and normality has returned for families. Best wishes to all the children, their families, teachers, schools and so many grandparents who are ‘back on duty’. It’s a lovely time of the year filled with excitement and energy.
Parish Life – will return to normal…
“Do you also wish to go away” has a very contemporary feel to it, as so many have indeed gone away. It does raise questions: Why am I still here? What still draws me? Our personal response very likely takes some form of “we have come to believe and we know.” We should not be…
One could launch the reflection by recalling significant situations in which the costly gift of self nourished others, leading perhaps to the gift of new courage and new life. Christians believe that Jesus gives life by giving himself. This is also the path of discipleship—the believer also gives life by the gift of self. Such…
For us eternal life usually means the next life and it can sound remote and unreal. The Fourth Gospel, where the expression occurs seventeen times, can be of help. The last occurrence (17:2) teaches that eternal life is a quality of relationship which begins now in the present moment and which is indestructible (Heb 7:16).
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There are times when we struggle to know what to do or how to respond to something. It might be a seemingly impossible decision or how to give an answer to someone in the family. Where do I look for guidance and support? On Pentecost Sunday we see where to turn. There is another person…
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