News & Events
The National Novena to Our Lady of Knock offers nine days of reflection and prayer and a chance to reconnect with your faith in a sacred space.
The programme for this year includes a wonderful line-up of guest speakers and workshops to help enrich and enliven faith. The theme is ‘Living Life to the Full’ and as the title suggests, there will be a strong focus on appreciating the gift of life and finding beauty in the everyday.
Registration for the World Meeting of families in 2018 is now open.
Visit the www.worldmeeting2018.ie/en/Tickets to access information on the different type of tickets and registration available.
A national Church collection will be held on the weekend of 22 July to fund life-saving aid for people currently affected by the devastating hunger crisis in East Africa. The money raised will go directly to Trócaire’s emergency response, which is helping to deliver food, water, healthcare and other life-saving aid to people affected.
Read more: Trocaire church collection to support emergency response in East Africa
Spirituality Course programme is now open for our Adult Education Certificate.
This is a two-year, part-time evening programme in Spirituality run in partnership with Lumen in the Lumen Dominican Centre, Sion Hill, Blackrock.
Read more: Spirituality Course – Lumen Dominican Centre, Blackrock
Faith for Life is an Adult Faith Course designed to help you to discover more energising and empowering ways to live out your faith in the reality of today’s world: through relationships, family, home, workplaces and the events of daily life. It aims to help you to be more active, open, faithful, confident, trusting and willing to work for change.
The annual Reek Sunday pilgrimage takes place on the last Sunday in July on Ireland’s holy mountain Croagh Patrick in the Archdiocese of Tuam. This pilgrimage has been carried out uninterrupted for over 1500 years. Croagh Patrick has over 100,000 visitors annually with up to 20,000 making the pilgrimage on Reek Sunday weekend each year. This year’s pilgrimage will take place on Sunday 30 July. Parishioners from all over Ireland are invited to participate in the pilgrimage.
We sincerely thank all our resident parishioners and those who live outside the parish who have contributed so generously during the period to Parish Funds. These funds are used exclusively to cover day to day running costs of the parish and costs associated with the maintenance of the church and parish buildings.
The Pathways Programme is geared towards those who wish to explore issues and questions of: faith; ministry; the Church today and the nature of belief, in an environment appropriate to Adult Learning and Adult Faith Development.
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 in 2018. This six-day festival of faith will take place from 21 to 26 August next year with the theme: “The Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World”.
Read more: Volunteers required for the World Meeting of Families in 2018
God of wisdom: guide me as I choose questions and in the way I answer them.
God of peace: keep me calm so that I will do the best that I can.
God of understanding: help me put all of this into perspective.
I ask these prayers in the name of Jesus, friend of students.
Amen.