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Christmas Mass Schedule 2024

St Mary & St John's Church
Tue 24 Dec 6:00pm Vigil Christmas Eve
Tue 24 Dec 10:00pm Vigil Christmas Eve
Wed 25 Dec 8:30am Christmas Day
Wed 25 Dec 10:00am Christmas Day
Wed 25 Dec 12:00 Noon Christmas Day

 

Christ our Light Church
Tue 24 Dec 6:00pm Vigil Christmas Eve
Tue 24 Dec 8:00pm Vigil Christmas Eve
Wed 25 Dec 11:00am Christmas Day
Wed 25 Dec 12:30pm Christmas Day

 

Confessions

St Mary & St John's Church
Wed 18 Dec after 9:30am Mass Confessions
Thu 19 Dec after 9:30am Mass Confessions
Fri 20 Dec after 9:30am Mass Confessions
Mon 23 Dec after 9:30am Mass Confessions
Tue 24 Dec after 9:30am Mass Confessions

Weekday Masses from Thu 26 Dec to Wed 1 Jan (inclusive) will be at 9.30am in St. Mary & St. John’s Church.

There will be no weekday Masses on these dates in Christ our Light Church

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Saida Salima, 28yrs, a mother brought her malnourished child to malnutrition clinic in Thobo county. Saida depends on farming but due to lack of rains last year, Saida and family ran out of food and have nothing to feed on, they have been surviving on nutritionally inadequate leaves and roots that have led to malnourishment of her child. She has received plumpy nuts to feed her child. The clinic is being run by Trocaire.Saida Salima, 28yrs, a mother brought her malnourished child to malnutrition clinic in Thobo county. Saida depends on farming but due to lack of rains last year, Saida and family ran out of food and have nothing to feed on, they have been surviving on nutritionally inadequate leaves and roots that have led to malnourishment of her child. She has received plumpy nuts to feed her child. The clinic is being run by Trocaire.

Trócaire Christmas Gifts of Change bring real hope and opportunity to families and communities living with poverty and injustice across our world, and a chance to create lasting and positive change from Somalia to Guatemala, from Sudan to Palestine

There are gifts for everyone starting at 5 euro for the Gift of Soap.

You can support the gifts by buying them...

online at trocaire.org/gifts

by phone 1800 408 408 / 021-427 5622

by post or in person to
Trócaire
9 Cook Street
Cork
T12 F583

 

"Even the winds and seas obey Him""Even the winds and seas obey Him"

Bishop of Cork and Ross invites people to respond to Church changes with a time of prayer, listening and discernment

On a weekend when heavy rain and winds had blown across his diocese, it seems more than coincidence that a new pastoral message from the Bishop of Cork and Ross should begin with a scripture quote: “Even the wind and the seas obey Him”.

Bishop Fintan Gavin read his message on Sunday to pilgrims attending the annual Mass at St. Finbarr’s Oratory, Gougane Barra.

Bishop Fintan’s message is a call to the people of the diocese to commit to a year-long time of prayer, listening and discernment about the future of the Catholic Church in the parishes and chaplaincies of the diocese.

In a time of unprecedented change in society and the Catholic Church in Ireland, people are understandably concerned about their parish’s future, he said.

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