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The relics of St. Bernadette of Lourdes will be in our diocese on Oct 30th, 31st and Nov 1st.
Here Bishop Fintan invites everyone "to create in Cork and Ross something of what people experience in Lourdes".
Invitation to visit St. Bernadette's relics
Children from two schools sang at the Masses
Bishop Fintan Gavin welcomed school principals, teachers, chairpersons and members of Boards of Management and parent representatives across the 174 catholic schools in the Diocese of Cork and Ross to two Masses for the opening of the school year.
They were celebrated in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clonakilty, on Monday 14th October and in the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne on Tuesday 15th October.
Prayer is an essential part of Alpha as we rely on the Holy Spirit to change lives
During Alpha, prayer ministry times are set aside so that hosts and helpers can pray for guests. And for guests, these moments are often when they experience God in a life-changing way. Praying for others might be a new concept for your team, and many guests may have never been prayed for before. For this reason, it’s important that your team understands the core values of prayer ministry and how they act as a guide as we pray for others on Alpha.
We are offering prayer ministry training for existing and new Alpha Team members in two venues:
Wednesday 23 October 2024
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Visitors’ Centre of The Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne, Cork
and
Thursday 24 October 2024
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Parish Centre, Clonakilty
Bishop Donal Roche introduces the pastoral letterIreland's Catholic Bishops’ issue pastoral letter on immigration: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes?
The Irish bishops’ have launched a new pastoral letter A Hundred Thousand Welcomes? and Bishop Fintan invites all people to read it and reflect on it.
The theme of A Hundred Thousand Welcomes? is about people welcoming the migrant in contemporary Ireland as modelled by the parable of the Good Samaritan.
The pastoral letter encourages people to welcome the migrant and to reject voices that attempt to sow division and also calls on State authorities to provide more services at a community level.
In the video clip, Bishop Donal Roche introduces the pastoral letter.
There is a short version of the pastoral letter as well as the expanded text at this link:
The Relics of St. Bernadette of Lourdes are on pilgrimage in Ireland and will be in the Diocese of Cork and Ross from 30 October to 1 November
St. Bernadette witnessed eighteen apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes in 1858 and countless millions of people have visited Lourdes since.
This visit of St. Bernadette’s relics will afford to the many people who can’t go to Lourdes an opportunity to be close to St. Bernadette and to Our Lady of Lourdes.
People will be able to venerate the relics at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne, Cork, and at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Clonakilty.
The programme is as follows:
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