Saturday 6pm Mass: The Youth Choir will be back from their summer break on Saturday 8th Sept! We welcome back our current members – and we invite new members & musicians to join us.If you are 7 or older and…
Saturday 6pm Mass: The Youth Choir will be back from their summer break on Saturday 8th Sept! We welcome back our current members – and we invite new members & musicians to join us.If you are 7 or older and…
Opening Ceremony | Pastoral Congress – RDS | Festival of Families | Papal Mass The parish is compiling a collection of personal reflections of the events of WMOF 2018. We invite parishioners to contribute a short account of personal experiences…
“The task of education is to make us sense that the world and society are also our home; it trains us how to live together in this greater home.” “Education of children is a ‘most serious duty’ and at the…
“The grandeur of women includes all the rights derived from their inalienable human dignity but also from their feminine genius, which is essential to society.” (Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia) How are our families and parish promoting and valuing the leadership…
“The family lives its spirituality precisely by being at one and the same time a domestic church and a vital cell for transforming the world” (Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia). Families are a privileged place where faith can be lived, celebrated,…
“In the family too, we can rethink our habits of consumption and join in caring for the environment as our common home” (Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia) During WMOF2018 pilgrims are invited into a conversation about caring for Our Common Home.…
All seats on the parish coaches have been filled. If you have booked your place but have not yet paid – please do so by the 10th August.The cost is €10 per adult, no charge for children. Payment to Christine in…
There is no family that does not know how selfishness, discord, tension and conflict violently attack and at times mortally wound its own communion. (Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia) Conflict is present at all levels of our lives, from global events…
Explore a programme in spirituality in Lumen –Dominican Centre, Blackrock: This two year part-time Certificate programme runs on Thursday evenings and six Saturdays to start 27 September 2018. It is exciting and inspiring. It’s open to all. No prior learning…
Pope Francis has a keen interest in technology, commenting regularly on social media. On the Pope joining Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg welcomed him, commenting: “No matter what faith you practice, we can all be inspired by Pope Francis’s humility and compassion.…
The Irish Cancer Society needs an extra 80 drivers for our volunteer Driver service in South Dublin to drive cancer patients to & from their chemotherapy appointments. We are looking for weekday drivers who have a car available. Drivers should…
The World Meeting of Families will focus on key issues related to family drawn from Pope Francis’ teachings in The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia). In the countdown to the events in August, for the next seven weeks we are…
OFFICIAL FAMILY PRAYER FOR WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES 2018 God, our Father, We are brothers and sisters in Jesus your Son, One family, in the Spirit of your love. Bless us with the joy of love. Make us patient and…
I am reading this book at the moment. It is highly pertinent to the technological times we live in where the author says’ always distracted, we lose the capacity for solitude and we‘are more distracted in each other’s company, and…
The theme chosen by Pope Francis for the upcoming World Day of Migrants and Refugees is “Welcoming, protecting, promoting, and integrating migrants and refugees.” (To read His Holiness’ full message, click here) As Christians, “we have the unique opportunity to advocate…
Coming to Ireland, I was filled with joy but not without some anxiety and fear of uncertainty. However, relief came when I got a placement in Mount Merrion Parish, to also serve in Kilmacud and Clonskeagh Parishes. Thanks to Archbishop…
Click [here] to go to the Irish Catholic Bishops’ online Advent Calendar . This year’s Advent Calendar will have a special focus on family as we prepare together for next year’s World Meeting of Families in Dublin from 21 – 26…
We are looking to form a new Parish Pastoral Council in January 2018 and we will be hosting a discernment meeting this coming Tuesday 28 November at 7.30pm in the church. As the number of priests continue to decline in the…
Why not visit our Parish Bookshop? We have the following goods on our shelves: – Advent Calendars – A selection of Christmas Cards – Mass Bouquets for Christmas – The Church Art Calendar – The Liturgical Calandar 2018
