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Bishop William Crean

23 June 2026

A Summer Gospel chapter-a-day programme took place 4 summers ago in 2022
Perhaps you might like to consider taking part in a 2026 summer programme

Each day via WhatsApp you will receive an audio recording of one chapter of the Gospel followed by a short commentary

The schedule is as follows:

Beginning
July 1st - Mark chapter 1
A chapter a day until
July 16th - Mark chapter 16
Then Gospel of Luke - July/ August
Then Gospel of John - August
Then Gospel of Matthew - beginning September 1st

Summer Gospel chapter a day programme

On Saturday 20th June, the date of the anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Bishop William Crean celebrated Mass and blessed the Presiders Chair , Ambo and Crucifix in St. Mary’s Church, Carrigtwohill

A presentation was made by Carrigtwohill Parish to Bishop Crean on the occasion of his Golden Jubilee

Cake and refreshments were enjoyed by all!

Carrigtwohill 20th June 2026

16 June 2026

Holy Hour of Directed Adoration

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

Mitchelstown Parish Church - Monday June 29th at 7:30pm

All very welcome

Fr. John Keane

15 June 2026

St. Aloysius Summer Faith Camp 30th June - 3rd July

For Boys and Girls (5-14 yrs.)

It's a summer camp with a twist! It’s an opportunity for young people to develop confidence and character, and to know and experience the love of God through Sports, Arts & Crafts, Music, Dance, Drama, Prayer & Catechesis.

€50 for the first child & €30 per additional child from the same family!

Venue: Youth Community Centre, Mallow (Beside the swimming pool)
Days: Tuesday 30th June – Friday 3rd July 2026
Time: 9.30 am to 3pm

Registration forms available from CDYS Office, Mallow

For more information please contact Bernadette on 086-8031126

Summer Faith Camp 2026

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Holiday I’ll take a summer break for a couple of weeks or so.
For seasonal entertainment, try a terrific performance of Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – or this film version of Shakespeare’s play with Judi Dench, Helen Mirren and others, a curious monument to the year 1968. Wonderful for any season is Abbado’s recording of the Brandenburg Concertos with the Orchestra Mozart from 2007, at the end of which there’s a shower of flowers.
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Man and Machine Still pondering the richness of Magnifica humanitas, I am haunted by an observation Hannah Arendt made in 1957, in The Human Condition. She reflects on man’s increasing obsession with the thought of creating himself instead of receiving existence as something given. Given the fast progress of human ingenuity she envisages a time in which man will not be able to understand the things he can do. ‘In this case, it would be as though our brain, which constitutes the physical, material condition of our thoughts, were unable to follow what we do, so that from now on we would indeed need artificial machines to do our thinking and speaking. If it should turn out to be true that knowledge (in the modern sense of know-how) and thought have parted company for good, then we would indeed become helpless slaves, not so much of our machines as of our know-how, thoughtless creatures at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible, no matter how murderous it is.’ How crucial, then, to practise thinking and to help others both to practise it and to take delight in it. That’s surely today’s great educational task.

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The Sacred Heart ‘Any baptised Christian is called to know the Heart of Jesus from within. I love the old Latin prayer, ‘Iesu, mitis et humilis Corde, fac cor nostrum secundum Cor tuum’: ‘Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like your heart.’ […] In John’s Gospel, the mutual indwelling of the believer and Christ is expounded in eucharistic terms: ‘He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.’ Holy communion is an exchange of hearts, possibly in more palpable terms than we commonly realise. It is intriguing that in the case of alleged eucharistic miracles the changed specimens, submitted to scientific analysis, almost invariably show traces of cardiac tissue. Such miracles are not truths of the faith: no-one is obliged to acknowledge them. But anyone can find here a telling symbol.’ From Healing Wounds.

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A Curious Story A kind correspondent has alerted me to a remark of Sigrid Undset’s found in the archives of John Mooney, the biographer of St Magnus. Mooney must have asked Undset about something he had heard on the grapevine about a possible film version of Kristin Lavransdatter. She responded in a letter dated 25 August 1937, with indignation that can still be felt after almost ninety years: ‘I really wonder how this story about refusing an offer from America for the film rights of Kristin Lavransdatter all of a sudden has gotten out – it really happened some years ago, and I never mentioned it as far as I know – I believe it was Miss Garbo wanted to impersonate Kristin. Now I never liked Miss Garbo very much, so the offer did not tempt me at all.’ The idea that the heroine of Camille should turn up as Mistress of Husaby is tinged with absurdity. I doubt it’s a great loss that the plan was never realised.

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Mahler 2 Since I wrote, in The Shattering of Loneliness, about the experience of first hearing Mahler’s second symphony, I have had many conversations about this extraordinary music. I have received letters from people who have likewise been inwardly awakened by it. The recording I heard, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic, remains dear to me. I wasn’t prepared, though, for the discovery I made the other day when I found that incomparable critic and enthusiast, Dave Hurwitz, proclaim it ‘the best recording ever‘. Bernstein is, says Hurwitz ‘the most literal and faithful exponent of Mahler’s music. There is nothing that he does that you cannot find reason for, good reason, in the score. And beyond that he gets to the essence of the music behind the printed page.’ It’s hard to disagree. Hurwitz says he was twelve when he first heard the symphony, finding himself sitting up in bed, amazed, during the final movement, then needing to listen to the whole work again from the beginning. This music can define a life. Here it is.

Summer Gospel chapter a day Programme
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Summer Gospel chapter a day programme 2026

A Summer Gospel chapter-a-day programme took place 4 summers ago in 2022
Perhaps you might like to consider taking part in a 2026 summer programme

Carrigtwohill Parish - 20th June 2026

On Saturday 20th June, the date of the anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, Bishop William Crean celebrated Mass and blessed the Presiders Chair , Ambo and Crucifix in St. Mary’s Church, Carrigtwohill