My friends,
I wish to draw your attention to the new “Light a Candle” feature on the Diocesan Website.
This is not a virtual candle. For those who wish to participate, a candle will be placed in the Cathedral in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament for your intentions.
For the month of November, the focus will be on remembering our deceased loved ones. “Indeed, the church in its pilgrim members, from the very earliest days of the Christian Religion, has honoured with great respect the memory of the dead.” (Directory on Popular Piety and the liturgy, 251)
Themes will vary during the year, following to some extent the Liturgical Calendar but also including other celebrations and occasions as they arise.
Donations received will be used for the ongoing maintenance of St Colman’s Cathedral.
With gratitude always for your support and prayer.
Yours sincerely,
+ Wm. Crean
Most Rev. William Crean, D.D.,
Bishop of Cloyne.
Munster Konkans, a community of families originating from Mangalore in South West India, and currently living in and around the Munster region, gathered together for the celebration of ‘Monthi Fest’ (Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary) on Sunday, 8th September.
This is the biggest family feast of the year in the Konkan culture, and is also celebrated as a harvest festival, where the first fruits, vegetables, and grains of the season are offered to God in a gratitude for His blessings.
The visitation of the holy relics is an opportunity to have Lourdes come to our diocese so that we can all experience the pilgrimage in Lourdes at home in Cloyne.
Petitions
There will be an opportunity for pilgrims to leave petitions and personal intentions to Our Lady of Lourdes and St Bernadette.
Petitions should be written at home and brought to the churches. A petition box will be located at the Marian shrines in the churches.
Veneration of the relics ends at 9pm each evening in both churches.
Our Lady of Lourdes help our faith!
Bishop William Crean, Bishop of Cloyne, has made the following new appointments which will come into effect on Saturday September 14th 2024.
I, as Bishop, and the people of the Diocese are deeply grateful to our priests for their generosity of spirit and commitment.
I’m grateful to those involved in these new appointments. Change always involves uprooting from the familiar to new and less known people and situations. We are indebted to all for their generous spirit of service to the people of God entrusted to them.
Their ministry is a sharing in the commitment of so many people, priests, religious and lay women and men who quietly, yet so effectively, nurture faith and life in our parishes.
The Jubilee Year 2025 (Holy Year) has been designated a celebration of Hope – which never disappoints. Sadly, the lives of too many are marked by despair and darkness. Our faith enables us to be people of light. But we need each other to nurture that hope in and for one another.
We, in the Diocese of Cloyne, are blessed with the ministry of so many priests still. It is important that parish communities who have witnessed the decline in attendance wake up to loss of purpose and meaning that is taking place in and among us.
Let this Year of Jubilee be a graced time for us to put fresh heart into our families, schools and parishes.
Let us pray for those taking on new assignments. We pray the blessing of contentment upon them.
+ William Crean
Bishop of Cloyne
Further information: Contact Fr Jim Moore
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