Lent 2025
There was a very great attendance at Mass in the church on Ash Wednesday. It’s an expression of our wish to turn our hearts to God during the Lent in preparation for Holy Week and Easter. This is a special time of the year and may we never forget the importance of embarking…
Celebration of the Sacrament of First Confession will commence this coming week. There remains a wonderful innocence about these. The joy of parents and families is evident too. While the faith landscape in our world is changing rapidly, the innocence of the children and the joy of parents endure. In our parish, the First Communion…
Sacrament of Confirmation
Welcome to the Sixth Class Confirmation candidates and their families to our Vigil Mass this weekend. Their enrolment for the Sacrament is celebrated as a parish this year by gathering for this Mass.
We all realise that life is increasingly complicated and we gather to pray for our young people…
Celebrate Baptism
This weekend we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord as Jesus is baptised in the River Jordan by John. Jesus enters into the waters of baptism in the same way that we celebrate the baptism of so many children in our own parishes. He ‘joins the line’ with…
Happy Jubilee
We have crossed the threshold from the old year into the new one this week. The new year is a time of hope and a fresh start. 2025 is also a Jubilee Year in the Church, a time of celebration and gratitude for the great gift of the Incarnation and of…
When we will kneel in front of our Church Crib on Christmas Eve, Christmas morning, or at another time, we will have our own thoughts. We may be thinking of the people who are not with us this year, thinking of our families, thinking of the year gone by, thinking of health, perhaps saddened by…
The Children’s Voices
Our church is a very busy place these days as schools rehearse and celebrate their Christmas carol concerts and nativity plays. It’s great to hear the voices of the children and young people in the church. We are grateful to their dedicated teachers and school staffs who give so much…
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…
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