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Bishop William Crean

29 June 2026

Monday 13th July 2026

A one-day trip to Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain in Co. Mayo

Age range: 13 to 20 years of age

This pilgrimage will suit those who can hike up a mountain (about 3 hours hiking in total, including the descent)

Bus Details: Pick up at Town Park, Fermoy, Co Cork at 8.30am

Returning at 10.30pm to the same spot, the same day

The bus can pick up others on route, if convenient

Cost: 30 Euro per individual, covering bus and evening meal
Participants are asked to bring a packed lunch

Mass will be celebrated at Ballintubber Abbey

Organised by Fr. Eamon Roche and the Camp Creideamh leaders

For details and booking please click here or call Fr. Eamon on 086-9972539

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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

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

Annual National Grandparents Pilgrimage
Celebrating the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

Sunday 26th July 2026 - Knock Shrine

A day of grace and blessing for the whole family as we honour Grandparents and the Elderly

Schedule:
Annointing of the sick - 2:30pm
Mass - 3:00 pm
Rosary Procession (Weather permitting)

ALL ARE WELCOME

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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

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How Grace Works A conversation with Mark Makowiecki was an opportunity to talk about what makes a good teacher and about the impact good books can have, about how God’s grace works in ordinary people’s lives, about monasticism – and about Catholic life in the North. You can listen to the whole conversation here.
On Sigrid Undset: ‘In addition to the great medieval cycles there are her so-called conversion novels, The Wild Orchid and The Burning Bush, both re-published in English, alongside many other Undset titles, by Cluny Media, that heroic enterprise which does so much to bring out excellent literature in new editions.’
The witness of a perseveringly faithful community is a strong incentive not to despair of one’s own circumstances. At a time when so many boats are being burnt and portcullises are lowered and walls are being built (unfortunately all these metaphors correspond to facts), it is really important to have places where there is an unconditional welcome.
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Bach How would the official broadcaster of a state committed to dialectical materialism portray the Fifth Evangelist? With curiosity I approached the four-part series Bach made as a DDR-Hungarian coproduction in 1985. It is remarkable: carefully researched, humanely written, splendidly acted. Ulrich Thein makes a credible JSB. He looks uncannily like him. Franziska Troegner is excellent as Anna Magdalena. A scene towards the end of Part One shows the famous incident when Louis Marchand left Dresden in stealth to avoid facing Bach in a public contest, having heard what Bach was capable of: ‘He knows’, says Marchand, ‘a different kind of music. He knows the circle of fifths the way people in the Antipodes know the backside of the moon, and strolls within it delightedly.’ This man oppressed by the stuffy air of small provincial towns has ‘made a new musical universe’. (Parts I, II, III, IV). The DDR production acknowledged that Bach was devout. It does though say little, it is true, about what devotion means. Supplement it with the account of Marie-Claire Alain.

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St Sigrid? ‘One can imagine the response of Sigrid Undset, had she been told that the Church would one day consider her a possible subject for a cause of beatification. She would have chortled. She might even have permitted herself a well-chosen expletive. Certainly, she is no plaster-cast saint. Her Christian trajectory was marked by struggles. She knew the complexities of life and love. That is why she speaks to us the way she does. And when we consider her life at a distance — she died in 1949 — we see that she did embody heroic virtue. She was one of the twentieth century’s foremost Catholic intellectuals, who used her creative gifts to proclaim Christ’s gracious truth. She was a fearless advocate of justice: this she showed to the full during World War II when, rushed into exile, she thundered against Nazism. She was an exemplary mother, not least in the way she cared for her handicapped daughter. She was a woman of prayer. I have been struck for years by signs emerging here and there, all over the world, of spontaneous devotion to Sigrid Undset, devotion sprung not only from love of her literary work but from a sense that she truly was, and remains, a friend of God. Her witness of unsentimental devotion and intelligent integrity is just what we need, I’d say, here and now.’ From an exchange with Luke Coppen on the launch of a causa for Sigrid Undset.

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Inkling of a Call The latest chronicle of St Cecilia’s Abbey in Ryde features an obituary of Sr Marie Bernard Eckhardt, who died in March after 68 years of monastic life. This intelligent woman of deep prayer, a native of Switzerland, was to the end ‘courteous, interested in everything and everybody, sometimes quite blunt in her opinions, always full of kindness’. The seed of her monastic calling was sown early. In an account written when she was just shy of 80, she traced her vocation back to an experience entertained when, aged four, she had asked her father why she had no grandfather: ‘My father explained that he had died and then went to heaven where he would remain for ever. This was called eternity and I remember lying on my bed, closing my eyes for a minute or two and then saying to myself: “No, eternity is much longer than this.” It gave me a great thrill to “play eternity”.’ How natural eternity is for a child whose mind and sensibility have been quickened by baptism. How convoluted life can become when this quickening has not taken place and the child, growing up, lacks coordinates by which to understand the infinite longing of which the human soul is by nature possessed.

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