April 28, 2020
The annual May Procession will not take place this year due to Covid-19 restrictions. Please build a May altar at home to honour this lovely month of May. On Sunday May 3rd do place May altars on your windows and front gardens as per other years. The daily rosary at the Marian shrine is also postponed […]
April 7, 2020
(From Cork & Ross) For the first time in living memory most people will not be able to go to their local church for the most sacred week of the year. During Holy Week (between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday) Christians contemplate the suffering, death and resurrection of Christ and prayerfully attend a series of […]
April 3, 2020
From Cork & Ross updates. Holy Week and Easter ceremonies on RTE Television and Radio Palm Sunday 5 April 1100-1150 Mass on Palm Sunday. Rev Professor Michael Mullaney, President of Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, celebrates Mass in the Kairos chapel studio, Maynooth, Co Kildare, with music from internationally acclaimed singer, Celine Byrne, accompanied by Ronan […]
March 26, 2020
Our Diocese of Cork and Ross offer you a simple Way of the Cross for families to pray at home… This Stations of the Cross was originally written to be led by children in a parish setting – this year we can all pray these nine stations in our homes. If you gather as a family […]
March 14, 2020
16-March-2020 : Updated Statement from Bishop Fintan Gavin 14- March- 2020 : Updated Statement from Bishop Fintan Gavin. 12- March-2020 : Statement from Bishop Fintan Gavin, Cork & Ross, re: weekend masses [Copied from Cork & Ross website, corkandross.org] Bishop Fintan Gavin has written to all priests in the diocese requesting “that the celebration of […]
March 14, 2020
16-March-2020: All public masses discontinued until further notice 14th March 2020 : Sunday Masses Discontinued until further notice. Updated statement from Bishop Fintan. 12- March-2020 : Statement from Bishop Fintan Gavin, Cork & Ross, re: weekend masses Last […]
March 13, 2020
Litany to the Holy Spirit O Mary, you shine continuously on our journey as a sign of salvation and hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick. At the foot of the Cross you participated in Jesus’ pain, with steadfast faith. You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need. We are […]
February 11, 2020
16-March-2020.Bishop Fintan Gavin has written to all priests in the diocese requesting “that the celebration of a public mass with a congregation be discontinued also on weekdays”, until further notice. Glanmire parish has 2 churches, St Joseph’s Springhill and St Michael’s Upper Glanmire. Mass and confessions are held in each as follows: Share post Follow […]
December 5, 2019
A huge thank you to the transition year students of GCC for building and installing a new crib for Christmas this year. The vice principal of the GCC constructed the previous year “many years” ago and it certainly has served us well. Mr Kennefick travelled to St Joseph’s for the installation of the new crib […]
October 24, 2019
The annual blessing of babies ceremony took place in St Joseph’s on 6th October. This ceremony is organised by the Baptism Group and invites all families to attend but especially families with babies baptised in the past 12 months. The ceremony asks everyone to remember the day the child was baptised and to recall any […]