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Bishop William Crean

13 July 2026

Conducted Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration

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

Church of the Holy Rosary, Midleton - Tuesday 28th July

Rosary at 7pm

Eucharistic Adoration at 7:30pm

All very welcome

Fr. John Keane

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

Carrigtwohill Parish Pilgrimage to Fatima 7th - 14th September 2026

Spiritual Director: Fr. Patrick Winkle

Direct return flights from Cork to Faro, with Bus to and from Fatima included
Full Board - breakfast, lunch and dinner each day
7 nights Hotel Steyler
Limited number of places
€1045 (single supplement extra) - limited single rooms, insurance is also extra
20kg baggage included with Aer Lingus flight.
Guided tours and full spiritual programme

Please make enquires to Fr. Patrick Winkle 021-4882439 or Joe Walsh Tours 021-2427190 or 01-2410800
Or book direct online with Joe Walsh Tours

2026 CARRIGTWOHILL PATRICK WINKLE 07 SEP CORK FARO Fatima Pilgrimage 2026

04 October 2025

Bishop William Crean meets Pope Leo on recent pilgrimage to Rome

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Bishop Crean meets Pope Leo

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July 2026
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October 2025
- Bishop Crean meets Pope Leo
September 2025
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Coram Fratribus

Drowning in Data I have found food for thought in this essay by Arianna Huffington, prompted by Pope Leo’s Magnifica humanitas. Speaking of the ‘gospel of Silicon Valley’ she writes: ‘AI is not divine. But it can paradoxically force us to have the conversation we’ve neglected since the Enlightenment: Who are we, and what truly defines us? Once that conversation begins, AI’s real superpower — personalization — can help us tap into the unique qualities that make us human.’ I am less optimistic than Huffington regarding the potential of AI in this regard. I do, however, agree, with this: ‘AI overtaking us in intelligence lays bare the massive category error we have made in increasingly defining ourselves by our intelligence.’ An insight that often occurs in the writings of the Fathers is the following: the index of true humanity is capacity for compassion, presupposing the winning of the heart. That is a thought to develop and practise. It might make us wise, an inalienably humane quality. As Huffington notes: ‘while we’re drowning in data, we’re starved for wisdom’.

Coram Fratribus

Where’s Consolation? Only in the beauty created
by others is there consolation,
in the music of others and in others’ poems.
Only others save us,
even though solitude tastes like
opium. The others are not hell,
if you see them early, with their
foreheads pure, cleansed by dreams.
That is why I wonder what
word should be used, “he” or “you.” Every “he”
is a betrayal of a certain “you” but
in return someone else’s poem
offers the fidelity of a sober dialogue.
From the collection Without End by Adam Zagajewski.

Coram Fratribus

A Vital Text It has been terrific, these past few years, to see Dom André Poisson’s remarkable text on the prayer of the heart, the best introduction to prayer I know, published in Spanish and Portuguese. As of this summer, there is finally an English version in print, in a handsomely produced, affordable booklet published by the CTS. I stand by what I say in the introduction: ‘I rejoice to recommend this little book with all my heart. It opened my eyes to ‘the boundless riches of Christ’; it pierced my heart with the light of a trust I had previously only known notionally; and it gave me a sense of what it might really mean to profess with the faith of the Church, defined at Nicaea: ‘I believe in the resurrection of the flesh’. It could do this because its author speaks with authority, of things he knows.’ Dom Poisson had a strong conviction that the life of prayer must embrace the whole person. He wrote: ‘Let us not pretend to be pure spirits. We are much better than that. We are children of God.’ For anyone interested, here is a German version, too, translated by a nun of Marienrode.

Coram Fratribus

Odyssey Everyone’s having an opinion about Nolan’s Odyssey these days. I’ll throw in my tuppence’s worth. Having read several reviews, I went to see it last night with high expectations. I was enthralled. The film is a magnificent achievement. Of course it does not render the complexity of the text or the range of Homer’s characters. That is the fate of any version. Richard Bentley said as much when he told The Odyssey‘s perhaps most famous translator: ‘It is a pretty poem, Mr Pope, but you must not call it Homer.’ What Nolan does is to show why the epic matters, why the image of Scylla and Charybdis, or of Penelope’s loom, still form our consciousness; why the names of Eurycleia and Eumaeus fill us with tenderness; why the thought of Circe (terrifically dramatised) makes us shudder. He renders the text’s urgency. The typology of a civilisation dying is laboured, yet it does touch a presently raw nerve. Therefore I’m happy to indulge it. It makes you think. And it makes you want to re-read Homer. Had I not had to make an early start this morning, I’d have stayed up late into the night, The Odyssey in hand. A film producing such an effect may, I think, be called a success.

Coram Fratribus

Alight in Audio ‘What weighs us down now lacks lasting substance. The weight of glory draws us upwards, towards a magnificent, multiple glory. Configured to a full share in Christ’s life, we shall know the patient joy of God who proclaims in Psalm 90, ‘I am with him in tribulation.’ He also says: ‘My delight is to be with the sons of men.’ ‘Oh Emmanuel,’ Bernard responds: ‘God with us!’ He adds: ‘Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you,’ delicately outlining the Marian character of graced growth into authentic Christian maturity. God knows what we desire and thirst for, what is truly to our liking. We must not settle for too little. We must know, and proclaim, in whose image we are made, what greatness we are capable of.’
From Alight with Hidden Glory, which today, on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, is launched as an audiobook.

Today is Reek Sunday. The day that thousands of pilgrims climb Croagh Patrick at Murrisk, Co Mayo.
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Photos from Cloyne Diocese's post Feast day of St. Joachim and St. Anne - grandparents of Jesus and World Day of Prayer for Grandparents and the Elderly- 26th July 2026
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Today we celebrate St. Bridget of Sweden.
St. Bridget of Sweden was a Mystic and Saint, and founder of the Bridgettine Nuns and Monks after the death of her husband of twenty years. She is also the patron saint of Read More 2 Comments

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Today 22nd July we celebrate the Feast of Mary Magdalene.
Mary was a follower of Christ and the first to witness His resurrection.
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Eucharistic Adoration Cloyne Diocese - 28th July 2026

Conducted Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration

Summer Gospel chapter a day programme 2026

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

Fatima Pilgrimage 2026 - Carrigtwohill Parish

Carrigtwohill Parish Pilgrimage to Fatima 7th - 14th September 2026

Bishop Crean meets Pope Leo

Bishop William Crean meets Pope Leo on recent pilgrimage to Rome

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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