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Pope’s Easter Urbi et Orbi message: “The contagion of hope”
Apr 2020
Pope Francis’ 'Urbi et Orbi message on Easter Sunday challenges us to ban indifference, self-centredness, division and forgetfulness during this time of Covid-19 – and to spread the “contagion” of...
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World Day of the Sick 2020
Jan 2020
The World Day of the Sick Seminar will take place on Saturday, February 8th from9.30am to 1.00pm in the Newtown Parish Pastoral Centre, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin.This year’s theme is...
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Pope Francis Urbi et Orbi & Christmas Message
Dec 2019
From the womb of Mother Church, the incarnate Son of God is born anew this night. His name is Jesus, which means: “God saves”. The Father, eternal and infinite Love, has sent him into the world not...
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Pope Francis’ message for Vocations Sunday 2019
May 2019
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
After the lively and fruitful experience of the Synod devoted to young people last October, we recently celebrated the Thirty-fourth World Youth Day in Panama City. These two...
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Lenten Reflection
Mar 2019
Lenten Reflection 2019. (Inspired by Edward Hayes)
Come, life giving Spirit and awaken my slumbering heart.
As you breathe upon our wintered earth, calling it to new life,
Awaken me as a child of...
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Message of His Holiness Pope Francis For Lent 2019
Mar 2019
“For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God” (Rm 8: 19)
Dear Brothers and Sisters
Each year, through Mother Church, God “gives us this joyful season when we...
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Pope Francis’ message on cyberbullying 2019
Jan 2019
Archbishop Eamon Martin warmly welcomed the content of Pope Francis’ message, published today on the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, for World Communications Day 2019. This annual celebration will...
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What are we celebrating at Christmas?
Jan 2019
While Christmas is the birthday of Jesus, that may or may not be what we are celebrating. In countries where Christian faith is the root of our culture, many who are no longer believers, no longer...
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Advent 2018– Beginning Again
Dec 2018
As we begin a new Church year, the Gospel (Lk. 21: 25-28) of the First Sunday of Advent, curiously, presents vividly a picture of a world collapsing. Creation is falling apart. The work of God’s...
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Donnybrook Parish Gathering 2018 - Context and Strategy for our Response
Oct 2018
The Parish Gathering prayed and then considered two questions, (a) ‘What do you want to celebrate about your parish/ what are we doing well?’ (b) ‘What can we do better/ what else can we do?’ The...
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Pope’s message for World Mission Sunday 2018
Oct 2018
Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all
Dear young people, I would like to reflect with you on the mission that we have received from Christ. In speaking to you, I also address...
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Pope gives us 3 words: Sorry, Please, Thank You
Aug 2018
During Pope Francis visit to Ireland on the occasion of the Catholic Church’s 9th World Meeting of Families (WMOF) which took place in Dublin, August 21-26 he gave us 3 words "Sorry", "Please",...
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‘Pope Francis: A Man of His Word’
Aug 2018
In advance of this month’s papal visit to Ireland, Wim Wenders’ new documentary on the current Bishop of Rome receives a cinema release. ‘Pope Francis: A Man of His Word’ is intended to be a...
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Volunteers required for the World Meeting of Families in 2018
Jun 2018
At least three thousand volunteers are needed to assist with the planning and organising of the ninth World Meeting of Families which Pope Francis asked Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to host in Dublin...
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The Referendem on the Right to Life of the Unborn
May 2018
Sermon by Monsignor Lorcan O'BrienSixth Sunday of Easter, B, 6th. May, 2018.
The referendum on whether or not to repeal the 8th. amendment of the Irish Constitution is a most serious question of...
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Pope Francis will be attending World Meeting of Families 2018!
Apr 2018
Pope Francis will travel to Dublin, Ireland in August to attend the World Meeting of Families. He made the announcement at his weekly General Audience on Wednesday
The Pope will arrive in Dublin on Saturday,...
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MESSIAH, an Easter performance
Mar 2018
To celebratethe 50th Anniversary of the School of Philosophy & Economic Science, the ‘Kirtanham Choir’ of the School of Philosophy in Ireland present Handel's Masterpiece, the MESSIAH at its...
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This Week’s Lenten Reflection
Feb 2018
The primary place of encounter with God for most adults, and children, is family life. For Christians, the family is the first experience of Church; “It is within the family, the domestic church,...
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Pope Francis’ Message for the World Day of Peace 2017
Jan 2018
Peace to all people and to all nations on earth! Peace, which the angels proclaimed to the shepherds on Christmas night, is a profound aspiration for everyone, for each individual and all peoples, and...
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"Urbi et Orbi" - Pope Francis Christmas Message 2017
Dec 2017
In Bethlehem, Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary. He was born, not by the will of man, but by the gift of the love of God our Father, who “so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that...
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Pope Francis' three Christmas ingredients: joy, prayer, gratitude
Dec 2017
Pope Francis said three simple attitudes can help prepare us to welcome Jesus Christ.
“Saint Paul invites us to prepare for the coming of the Lord by assuming three attitudes: constant joy,...
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World Day of the Poor
Nov 2017
Pope Francis has named the thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary time the World Day of the Poor. The inaugural World Day of the Poor will be celebrated November 19, 2017. What should parishes do to mark...
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AMORIS: LET’S TALK FAMILY! LET’S BE FAMILY!
Nov 2017
“Does the Family continue to be good news for today’s world? I am sure the answer is yes! And this yes is firmly based on God’s plan.” - Pope Francis, March 2017.
WHAT IS THE AMORIS: LET’S TALK FAMILY!...
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All Souls' Day
Oct 2017
All Souls' Day is marked on 2nd November (or the 3rd if the 2nd is a Sunday), directly following All Saints' Day, and is an opportunity for us to commemorate the faithful departed. They remember and pray...
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Message of Pope Francis for World Mission Sunday 2017
Oct 2017
Once again this year, World Mission Day gathers us around the person of Jesus, “the very first and greatest evangelizer” (Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, 7), who continually sends us forth to proclaim the...
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We don't earn God's love - it's freely given, Pope Francis says
Jun 2017
Pope Francis said that God’s love isn’t something we earn or deserve by our good works, but that it is free and unconditional – no matter what.
“God's first step towards us is that of an anticipated and...
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Ecumenical Bible Week 2017
Jun 2017
Ecumenical Bible Week takes place from Pentecost (4th June) to Trinity Sunday. There’s a wide variety in the programme this year, including a symposium on the Reformation and Thinking Allowed Itis...
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Sesquicentenary 150 - Closing Event Sunday 4th June
Apr 2017
Sunday 4th June: Celebrations at the Church of the Sacred Heart to close the 150th Year Events10:30am Family Mass12:00noon Mass Celebration with the Parish Choir.Parish Community Fun Day in the Church...
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The Invitation of Holy Week
Apr 2017
At the beginning of his Passion, in the Garden of Gethsemene, Jesus invites his disciples to ‘Stay here and keep awake with me’. This is his invitation to all his disciples at the beginning of Holy...
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Pope’s letter for Dublin World Meeting of Families
Apr 2017
At the end of the Eighth World Meeting of Families, held in Philadelphia in September 2015, I announced that the subsequent meeting with Catholic families of the world would take place in Dublin. I now...
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Pope Francis’ World Communications Day Message
Jan 2017
I wish to address this message to all those who, whether in their professional work or personal relationships, are like that mill, daily “grinding out” information with the aim of providing rich fare...
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Young Parishioners Group
Oct 2016
As young people in our parish we would like to start something new. We hope to create a group of young parishioners where everybody can feel free to bring their own needs and experiences, a group...
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Celebrating The 150 Years Of Our Parish Church
Jul 2016
On 26th August 1866 Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin,celebrated the opening of the new Church of the Sacred Heart for the Parish of Donnybrook with a High Mass.
We are now one hundred and fifty...
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A Prayer For Nice
Jul 2016
We pray in heartfelt solidarity with the people of Nice. We pray for those who died, those who are injured, the traumatised and all their families.
We pray that though we are deeply disconcerted by such...
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Statement Of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin On Orlando Shootings
Jun 2016
People all around the world are shocked with the news of the terrible loss of life at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
I have asked that in the Prayers of the Faithful at all Masses in the...
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Ecumenical Service of Remembrance to mark month’s memory of the tragic deaths in Brussels (22nd March 2016) - Speaking and Homily notes
Apr 2016
Speaking and Homily notes of Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin
Late last year I led a delegation of Irish Catholic Bishops to Brussels to meet with representatives of the European...
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Being Church- Being Parish?
Sep 2015
Over the Summer the Migrant Crises in Africa flowing over into Europe has been one of the big stories. Tens of thousands of people, fleeing terror, war and destitution, seeking at great risk a life...
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Living the Joy of the Gospel
Jun 2015
Living the Joy of the Gospel, is a Diocesan initiative, aims to support and sustain the three pillars of Catholic Parish life, the Church and gathering places, lay involvement in evangelisation, ministry...
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Marriage, Family and Society.
Jan 2015
This coming year a constitutional referendum on Marriage is planned with the stated aim of extending the possibility of marriage to same sex couples. The reason given is to accord to same sex...
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Prayers for Marriage and Family
Jan 2015
God’s Plan for Our Marriage and Family
As we answer God’s callin our vocationin the Sacrament of Marriageto follow Christ and to servethe kingdom of God in our married life,we ask, in and through...