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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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Coram Fratribus

School of Athens Raphael’s School of Athens in the Apostolic Palace in Rome is endlessly fascinating, yet there is something almost more moving about seeing the cartoons on display in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan. The artist comes very close when you can trace individual pen-strokes. There is such perfection of balance in the whole. I was struck by this detail, which I am not sure I’d noticed before. These two figures are not representations of historical personages or contemporary characters. They embody the type of a pair: that of the teacher and pupil. The pupil is absorbed in his reading. He may be in the process of underlining something, or putting glossa in the margin. The teacher does not impose himself, but accompanies the pupil’s exploration, at hand to answer questions or to correct a mistaken reading. One of the best teachers I have had once told me that a teacher’s chief task is to make himself superfluous, providing his pupil with the knowledge, wisdom, and tools to learn and research responsibly on his own. Raphael somehow shows this process at work.

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Revelation A few days ago, Mother Christiana Reemts, the abbess of Mariendonk, presented this reflection: “Nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known’ (Matthew 10.26). Is this a threat or a promise? Perhaps a bit of both. In every life, every family, every community, there are secrets one would never want to be made known because one is ashamed of them and fears losing face. At the same time I see how exhausting it is to keep the lid on the pot. In the case of some people, this exercise drains all their vital energy. How liberating, then, it can be when this, suddenly, is no longer required. Regardless of this, it is quite right not to tell everybody everything. People who constantly lay bare their innermost selves rarely serve the cause of truth. Often enough, they are merely trying to make themselves seem important.’

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Madness The aria Il dolce suono from the last act of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) must be one of the most realistic depictions of insanity in musical drama alongside the madness scene from Giselle (1841). In both works, a woman has been crossed in love. The stakes, though, are different. Giselle discovers she has been lied to. The man she had thought of as her fiancé turns out to be committed to someone else. Lucia has been forced to marry a man she does not love to benefit her penniless brother, the villain of the piece. Donizetti renders Lucia’s departure from her senses by means of extraordinary orchestration featuring a glass harmonica. The sound of it is at once beautiful and profoundly disturbing. It can draw goose bumps forth even from prepared listeners. We are brought to a depth of experience where wounded affection breaks down, or overrules, rationality. We don’t talk about those depths much now. It is striking that nineteenth-century drama was prepared to face them so honestly.

Coram Fratribus

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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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