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Bishop William Crean

07 October 2026

February
Mitchelstown - Tuesday 9th
Ballyhea and Ballyclough - Thursday 11th
Castletownroche - Tuesday 23rd
Conna - Thursday 25th

March
Aghada - Thursday 4th
Imogeela - Tuesday 9th
Midleton - Wednesday 10th
Cobh - Thursday 11th
Killeagh - Tuesday 16th

Confirmation Dates 2027

Carrigtwohill Parish - Rosary week 4th -9th October

From Sunday 4th of October to Friday 9th of October each evening at 7pm there will be Rosary and Reflection in the Church in Carrigtwohill to mark the month of the Rosary

People are encouraged to join in this prayer reflecting on Mary’s life and her example of faith

The Rosary is a Powerful Prayer connecting us to Jesus and his Blessed Mother

“From your hands fall are heaven’s blessing” (Hymn) Let us seek blessing from Mary, Gate of Heaven at this time

Pope Leo invites us to pray the Rosary for Peace in this month of October.

Carrigtwohill Parish - Rosary week 4th - 9th October

05 October 2026

Conducted Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration

Led by Fr. John Keane , Director of Eucharistic Adoration Holy Hour

St. Peter's Church, Dungourney - Thursday 8th October

Holy Rosary at 7pm

Eucharistic Adoration at 7:30pm

All very welcome

Fr. John Keane

22 September 2026

Bible Study Course led by Fr. Eamon Roche and Deacon John McCarthy

The course will cover the Book of Revelation and will run for 14 weeks, either side of Christmas. It will have something for all levels, beginners, intermediate and advanced and is a good opportunity to nourish your faith and meet others

Open Day, a Come-and-See meeting about on Tuesday 6th October at 7.30pm in the Accord Building, Monument Hill, Fermoy (P61X866)

The course begins the following week and will run on Tuesdays, 7.30pm to 9pm. The cost is 20 Euro per person

For more information please contact Fr. Eamon on 086-9972539 or the Parish Office 025-30856

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Coram Fratribus

Amoris Laetitia ‘The indissolubility of marriage […] should not be viewed as a yoke imposed on humanity, but as a gift’ (62). ‘Jesus, who reconciled all things in himself, restored marriage and the family to their original form’ (63). ‘The married couple are […] a permanent reminder for the Church of what took place on the cross’ (72). ‘[The child born of the mutual love of spouses] does not appear at the end of a process, it is present from the beginning of love as an essential feature, one that cannot be denied without disfiguring that love itself’ (80). ‘When the search for pleasure becomes obsessive, it holds us in thrall and keeps us from experiencing other satisfactions’ (126). ‘To believe that we are good simply because we feel good is a tremendous illusion’ (145). ‘Families should not see themselves as a refuge from society, but instead go forth’ (181). ‘God has given the family the job of domesticating the world’ (183). ‘Nothing is more volatile, precarious and unpredictable than desire. The decision to marry should never be encouraged unless the couple has discerned deeper reasons that will ensure a genuine and stable commitment’ (209). ‘Each must set aside all illusions and accept the other as he or she actually is: an unfinished product needing to grow, a work in progress’ (218). ‘In order to avoid all misunderstanding, I would point out that in no way must the Church desist from proposing the full ideal of marriage’ (307).

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Notre Dame To see the restored cathedral of Notre Dame is marvellous. The brightness of the stone, the clear brilliance of the rose window, the pristineness of everything let us share the exhilaration our Medieval forebears must have felt on entering this space at a time when the Gothic style was not only not old, but cutting-edge. How it has endured, transcending time. The same cannot be said for the rather peculiar new altar, manifesting the urge to leave a contemporary mark. Already, after a couple of years, it seems dated. It disturbs the eye. Oh well, one has simply to raise it. I was enchanted by a feature I’d never noticed before: the sculpted wall along the back of the choir, a fourteenth-century work showing scenes from the life of Christ. I love this representation of the apostles asleep during Christ’s prayer in Gethsemani. There is intimacy in their dereliction. Huddled together, they display a natural tendency to seek comfort in human warmth faced with the solitude of Christ’s Sacred Passion. That tendency is not sinful – the sleepers are haloed – but must be cleansed and directed. What is human in us has to be raised up by power from on high, equipped to face God’s awesome holiness, something each of us must do in his or her own name. No one can do it on our behalf.

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Hidden Life Living as we do in the midst of rapid societal change, certain questions haunt us. How do we emerge from isolation into community? Are there durable values without which civilisation withers? Does our constant flood of words carry meaning? These are among the questions addressed in a book published this week, a conversation with Nicolas Diat structured on the discourse Pope Benedict XVI gave at the Collège des Bernardins in 2008. That text remains a powerful summons recalling us to the monastic roots of western culture. For my part, I’d venture to maintain that ‘the theologian’s task is to say the unspeakable with purified words, not to invent, but to restore. It is humble work, a discourse born of silence, on our knees. […] A monastic theologian resembles a restorer of paintings. First he removes impurities, accumulated layers of dust, in order to find his way back to the original, pure form of words; then he undertakes to use these with reverence. To accomplish anything in this respect, humility is called for. This search for transformed words is intimately linked to the pursuit of silence.’

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After DEI? ‘Wherever truth is genuinely sought, there must be a willingness to reason carefully, to acknowledge complexity, to distinguish matters of principle from matters of prudence, to learn from those with whom we disagree, and to submit our own judgments to rational scrutiny. These habits of mind are, alas, rare in our public life. They are nevertheless indispensable, not only to scholarship, but also to the health of any free society.’ With these words Professor Robert P. George introduces, and commends, a book just out. It brings together a series of papers presented at a 2024 Princeton seminar in which I was privileged to participate. I spoke then of a need to ‘rescue from mythicised mists precious notions needed to speak afresh a common, desirable human purpose.’ I still believe that holds. This book provides helpful inspiration and guidance.

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Hospodi pomiluj One of the loveliest moments at this year’s SingCon was the repeated experience of singing, at the end of the vigil for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Lvovsky’s 72-fold Hospodi pomiluj (Kyrie eleison) in four-part harmony, following a chromatic pattern that first descends into the depths, then rises hopeful, and ultimately jubilant, to the tonal norm. You can find a recording here. The refrain accompanied the presiding bishop’s gracious gestures of reverence. Each aspect of the celebration conspired to make one realise that Christ’s mercy, poured out on the Cross, effectively follows us everywhere: ‘If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me’ (Psalm 139.8-10). May we never forget it. As an example of how a prayerful acclamation can cross cultural boundaries, you may wish to compare the recording indicated above with this one, which is simply terrific.

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Confirmation Dates 2027

October - Month of the Rosary - Rosary Week 4th - 9th

Carrigtwohill Parish - Rosary week 4th -9th October

Eucharistic Adoration Cloyne Diocese - 8th October 2026

Conducted Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration

Bible Study Course - Fermoy and surrounding Parishes

Bible Study Course led by Fr. Eamon Roche and Deacon John McCarthy

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