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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The prophet Jonah 3:1-5
‘Only forty days more and Nineveh is going to be destroyed.’ And the people of Nineveh believed in God; they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least. God saw their efforts to renounce their evil behaviour. And God relented: he did not inflict on them the disaster which he had threatened.
First letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 7:29-31
Those who have wives should live as though they had none, and those who mourn should live as though they had nothing to mourn for; those who are enjoying life should live as though there were nothing to laugh about; those whose life is buying things should live as though they had nothing of their own; and those who have to deal with the world should not become engrossed in it. I say this because the world as we know it is passing away.
Mark 1:15
The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’
We now also for the sake of each other, need to make great sacrifices for the next 40 days to overcome this pandemic.
Parish notes 23rd Jan:
We congratulate parishioners Peggy and Donal Cashman on the 60th anniversary of their marriage.
The parish office is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 9:30 am to 1 pm.
St. Joseph's Church in open daily for personal prayer.
Mass tomorrow Sunday is online from St. Joseph's at 10:30. Mass Monday to Friday is 10 am. See link t.co/q1jiuEq3Mr
The week of prayer for Christian unity continues to Monday - we pray from our homes.
We wish Rory Mcllroy the best in the Abu Dhabi golf championship today.
Stay safe, be gentle with yourself and have good week.
Charles Péguy (1873-1914) in Portal of the Mystery of Hope talks about Jesus’ crown of thorns, then writes of an alternate crown of supple budding branches, the crown of hope, he calls it. The crown of thorns marks the end. The branches have no use beyond pain and anguish, leading to death. The crown of hope still has life in it, hidden deep within, which can be coaxed out if tended carefully.
- This a very Christian hope and faith. We today also hope to coax out new life after this pandemic where we can meet each other again. God help us persevere and endure in hope, while caring for each other.
Thomas Merton's Prayer
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you and I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.
And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road although I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Glanmire Parish,
Springhill,
Glanmire,
Co. Cork,
Ireland.
T45 TW72
Email office@glanmireparish.ie
Tel: +353 (0) 21 4820654
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