Congrats to Canon Pat who was recently nominated to the Cathedral Chapter by Bishop Brendan Leahy 

For all St Anthony of Padua devotees, his annual novena commences on June 5th in St John's Cathedral.

In Honour of St Anthony

St John’s Cathedral

Thursday 5th June - Friday 13th June 2025

Mass each day at 10am & 5.45pm

(Saturday 10am & 6pm) (Sunday 10.30am only)

With Novena Prayers, Homily and Blessing with Relic

Wednesday 11th Prayers for Expectant Mothers 10am

& 5.45pm

Thursday 12th Prayers for the Sick 10am & 5.45pm

Friday 13th Blessing of Lillie's 10am & 5.45pm

On 7 June, the International Eucharistic and Marian Shrine at Knock will host the 40th Annual All Ireland Rosary Rally – a powerful day of prayer, reflection, and devotion that has united Catholics from across Ireland and beyond for four decades in honour of Our Lady.

Annual Pilgrimage to Knock takes place on June 28th

A bus will leave from our church car park at 9.00am

Cost €25 which includes a cuppa along the way.

Contact the following to reserve a place:

Sr Anne Collins 086 3465220 

Margaret Hogan 086 8297304 

We are nearing the finish of Easter Season 2025 as we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord on June 1st and Pentecost Sunday on June 8th

On June 6th the Communications Office of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference will host a seminar to celebrate year’s theme for World Day for Social Communications: Communicating Christian Hope.  This was the last annual communications message  written by the late Pope Francis, and it will formally be marked on Ascension Sunday, 1 June.

Jubilee of Youth Pilgrimage to Rome takes place July 24 - Aug 4th Details are on Newsletter of May 25th

A faith gathering of young adults from around the country will take place in Knock on 14 June and is expected to be the largest such gathering of young adult faith leaders since the visit to Ireland of the late pope, now Saint John Paul II, over three days in September/October 1979 

As Hilda Joseph Ayyad, a parishioner taking refuge at the Holy Family Catholic Parish in Gaza, celebrates her 20th birthday, she shares the weight of war and her spark of hope that conflict may soon end.

(Story courtesy of Vatican News 24/05/25)