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Bishop William Crean

28 May 2026

Fermoy, Kilworth and Araglin Corpus Christi Procession

Sunday June 7th following 12pm Mass

Processing from St. Patrick's Church to Fermoy Town Park

All are welcome!

Please feel free to leave flower petals to be strewn in the procession in Patrick's Church on Wednesday - Saturday before the Sunday

Corpus Christi Fermoy, Kilorth & Araglin

28 May 2026

Changes to Mass schedule will commence 7 June in Cloyne and Aghada Parish

Sat 6 June	6:00pm	(Vigil) St Colman's Church, Cloyne
Sun 7 June	9:00am	Start of the Sea Church, Ballycotton
Sun 7 June	9:30am	St Mary's Church, Ballinrostig
Sun 7 June	10:15am	Church of the Immaculate Conception, Shanagarry
Sun 7 June	11:00am	St Erasmus Church, Aghada

Sat 13 June	6:00pm	(Vigil) St Colman's Church, Cloyne
Sun 14 June	9:00am	St Colmcille's Church, Churchtown South
Sun 14 June	9:30am	St Mary's Church, Ballinrostig
Sun 14 June	10:15am	Church of the Immaculate Conception, Shanagarry
Sun 14 June	11:00am	St Erasmus Church, Aghada

Sat 20 June	6:00pm	(Vigil) St Colman's Church, Cloyne
Sun 21 June	9:00am	Start of the Sea Church, Ballycotton
Sun 21 June	9:30am	Church of the Mother of God, Saleen
Sun 21 June	10:15am	Church of the Immaculate Conception, Shanagarry
Sun 21 June	11:00am	St Erasmus Church, Aghada

Sat 27 June	6:00pm	(Vigil) St Colman's Church, Cloyne
Sun 28 June	9:00am	St Colmcille's Church, Churchtown South
Sun 28 June	9:30am	Church of the Mother of God, Saleen
Sun 28 June	10:15am	Church of the Immaculate Conception, Shanagarry
Sun 28 June	11:00am	St Erasmus Church, Aghada

Masses will revert to the usual times from Sunday 5th July 2026

Cloyne Aghada Mass Schedule June 2026

28 May 2026

Shalom Charleville Parish Retreat Centre Co. Cork P56 YP79

Wednesday 17th June 2026, 11:30am - 3:30pm

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25 May 2026

Ordination of Rev. Tiernan Burke

St. Colman's Cathedral, Cobh

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Coram Fratribus

Living within Love

Jesus said to them, ‘I will ask you a question, only one; answer me and I will tell you my authority for acting like this. John’s baptism: did it come from heaven, or from man? Answer me that.’ And they Read More

Coram Fratribus

Ciudad Silenciosa

Today, on the Day of Pentecost, was broadcast a conversation I was privileged to conduct a few weeks ago with María del Ser for her weekly programme, La Ciudad silenciosa, always worth listening to.
María asked what is unique to music Read More

Coram Fratribus

Living within Love Jesus said to them, ‘I will ask you a question, only one; answer me and I will tell you my authority for acting like this. John’s baptism: did it come from heaven, or from man? Answer me that.’ And they argued it out this way among themselves: ‘If we say from heaven, he will say, “Then why did you refuse to believe him?” But dare we say from man?’ – they had the people to fear, for everyone held that John was a real prophet. So their reply to Jesus was, ‘We do not know.’
Christ’s words (Mark 11.27-33) to the chief priests, elders, and scribes touch a question specific to the circumstances in which they were spoken. But they carry timeless resonance.
If we take them to heart, they challenge us, now, to ask: ‘What are the coordinates by which my judgements are formed? What do I hold to be true?’
In so far as I face these questions squarely, I may find myself enlightened, and possibly a little humiliated, by them.
For I may find I’m not, in fact, living terribly coherently — that I’ll affirm something as being axiomatic in one setting only, just next door, to forget all about it.
When we come to Mass, we enter the church quietly and reverently genuflect. We stand and kneel according to the rubrics. We come to holy communion whole-heartedly saying ‘Amen’ to the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
But do we then recall, once we step back into Soho, or wherever it might be, that we are in effect a walking tabernacle, supremely blessed bearers of a supremely graced Presence?
‘Keep yourselves within the love of God’, writes Saint Jude. Those are profoundly encouraging words. They tell us that we can in fact subsist within that love.
God’s love has been poured out on us. All we need to do is to let it act, collaborating with it, enjoying it.
We shall also need, of course, to abandon all sabotage, be it conscious or unconscious, of the kind we commit when we leave God’s love behind for the sake self-love. And after all, there’s not much delight to be found in that airless room.
Why not rather be joyful and free, astounded to be loved, and so made able to love?
Follower of Maarten van Heemskerck: Christ among the Pharisees, on sale at Sotheby’s.

Coram Fratribus

Transition Liszt’s Variations on a Motif by Bach from 1862 came about in tragic circumstances: the composer was dealing with piercing personal grief. Liszt found the motif he chose to develop in the achingly beautiful sinfonia of Bach’s cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (‘Weeping, Wailing, Cares, Trembling’), structured by descending semitones. Liszt developed and stretched it in all possible directions, seeking expression for the height and depth, length and breadth of deep emotion. The theme of wailing is not given the last word, however. The final transpositions lead into a proclamatory development of the F Major chorale (‘What God does is well done’) that concludes the Bach cantata. A disposition of determined faith could hardly have been made more explicit. The Variations are a bravura piece, fit to end a recital programme. This evening, at Wigmore Hall, Alexandre Kantorow, one of our time’s finest musicians, began with it, yet managed to maintain a rising curve. It was extraordinary.
This interpretation by Balázs Fülei, though very different from Kantorow’s, is also excellent.

Coram Fratribus

A Remarkable View One could be forgiven for thinking this the portrait of a languid lady bored with her needlework yet not quite having the energy to pick up a book, preferring instead to daydream. In fact it is the right half of a large canvas portraying ‘Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth‘. The lady isn’t whiling time away. She is intently watching a young man occupied with handiwork: seated on a stool plaiting a crown of thorns, he has stung his finger, drawing blood. Once you see what the topic is, the lady looks different, full of foreboding. You notice the tears running down her cheek. This painting, which belongs to the Cleveland Museum of Art, is now on display in the National Gallery’s wonderful exhibition Zurbarán. Few painters affect me as deeply. As Charlotte Higgins wrote in a review: ‘It’s impossible not to think about the very act of painting when looking at this work. Painting as an act of devotion, wonder and prayer. Painting as a means of seeing the divine. Painting as a way of imparting visions that hover between the real and the unreal, the illusory and the tangible.’

Coram Fratribus

A Sign Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet, once referred to his cousin Oscar as ‘a man who taught me not to despair’. He went on: ‘I learned much from him. He gave me a deeper insight into the religion of the Old and New Testament and inculcated a need for a strict, ascetic hierarchy in all matters of mind, including everything that pertains to art, where as a major sin he considered putting the second-rate on the same level with the first-rate. Primarily, though, I listened to him as a prophet who loved people’. I thought of that description when yesterday a kind person sent me this poem, appropriate for the time after Pentecost. Czeslaw Milosz wrote it at Berkeley in 1961. I suppose he could only frame the aspiration of the final lines because he had somewhere, dimly, already known its fulfilment.
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Coram Fratribus

Ciudad Silenciosa Today, on the Day of Pentecost, was broadcast a conversation I was privileged to conduct a few weeks ago with María del Ser for her weekly programme, La Ciudad silenciosa, always worth listening to.
María asked what is unique to music as an art form. I stumblingly answered:
What is specific to music among the arts? It’s terribly difficult to define! But I do find that music has a singular immediacy. I admit that mine is a subjective judgement. Some people are more susceptible to poetry or the visual arts. But if one is of this particular bent of mind, has that sensibility, music enables an immediacy that I, certainly, don’t find in other arts. I can be affected by them, by all means, but not as viscerally as I am by music.
We talked about many things: my experience of hearing Così fan tutte as a child; the excellence of Jan Garbarek; the sublimity and banality of Geirr Tveitt; the inexhaustibility of Beethoven’s Quartets; and the thought behind Coram Fratribus.
You can listen to our conversation, in Spanish and English, here.
And here‘s the duet from Così.
From Hans Memling’s triptych of Five Angels Playing Musical Instruments the Church of Santa Maria la Real, Nájera.

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As we celebrated Pentecost yesterday, we now re-enter Ordinary Time with the celebration of the feast of Mary, Mother of the Church.
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Corpus Christi Procession - 7th June 2026

Fermoy, Kilworth and Araglin Corpus Christi Procession

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Changes to Mass schedule will commence 7 June in Cloyne and Aghada Parish

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Shalom Charleville Parish Retreat Centre Co. Cork P56 YP79

Ordination of Rev. Tiernan Burke - 24th May 2026