The Festival Day of St Oliver Plunkett is celebrated in St Peter’s Church, Drogheda, on Sunday 5th July.
This year we are particularly pleased to welcome as homilist the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin.
The Festival Mass in St Peter’s Church, the Memorial Church of St Oliver Plunkett, will be led by Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop of Armagh. Music will be by St Peter’s Male Voice Choir directed by Mr Edward Holly.
One of the features of the day is the colourful Procession of the Relics of St Oliver Plunkett accompanied by the Knights of Columbanus and members of other Orders. The Procession leaves Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 3.00pm to arrive for Mass at St Peter’s Church at 4.00pm.
DUNDALK, COUNTY LOUTH:
Ballybarrack
Annual Mass at the Shrine of St Oliver Plunkett, Ballybarrack will take place on Sunday 13th July, at 3.00pm
The Archdiocese of Dublin has launched a new temporary website in preparation for the International Eucharistic Congress which will be held in Dublin in 2012
Cardinal Brady of Armagh celebrated Mass in Dundalk on Friday using the ‘Benedictine Altar Arrangement’. The Mass was in held in Thanksgiving for the Pauline Year which concludes today. Thanks to a reader who sent in this picture.
It is understood that a young person associated with the Mass asked for this Altar Arrangement to be used!
Great to see that the Benedictine reform is making waves in Ireland too!
PONTIFICAL TRIDENTINE HIGH MASS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY FORM
From the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Pontifical Tridentine High Mass of the Extraordinary Form on the Solemnity of the Most Precious Blood
1st July, 13.00 Encore: 23.00
POPE BENEDICT XVI: A PROFILE
Largely narrated by his older brother Fr. Georg Ratzinger, this documentary traces the life of the Pope Benedict XVI from the small Bavarian towns of his youth, through his eminent professorial career, to his appointment as the 265th Pope.
15th July: 9.30 & 20.00
16th July: 04.00
19th July: 06.00
THE PAPACY OF REASON
Pope Benedict XVI is leading the Church of the 21st Century in a clear and unmistakable direction; this insightful overview of the principal themes of his Pontificate reveals the unique approach he uses to guide the Church in truth and love, and includes key interviews with Church leaders, Vatican experts, and prominent Catholic journalists.
Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien received a great welcome as he arrived as the Papal Legate of Pope Benedict XVI at St Columba’s Church Long Tower on the feast of St Columba and the centenary of Long Tower.
Cardinal O’Brien arrived in cappa magna, seen in Derry for the first time since Vatican II. The particular cappa magna worn by the cardinal initially belonged to Cardinal Heard, the first Scots-born Cardinal appointed since the Reformation. The cappa magna then passed on to Cardinal Gray — then to Cardinal Winning — and now is in the possession of Cardinal O’Brien with this solemn event being the first occasion on which he has worn it.
Rev Thomas Philip Donnelly (senior priest of the diocese), Pontifical Mission to the Papal Legate, and Rev Michael Canny (Administrator, St Eugene’s Cathedral) accompanied the cardinal.
(Read the entire report at the site of the Scottish Catholic Observer here)
Would you like to see the Motu Proprio ‘Summorum Pontificum’ applied in your Parish? This doesn’t mean that all the Masses will be in Latin, but at least 1 per week. Very interested to here from Irish readers in particular. If you would like to add comments, please do. All comments will be moderated.
The rubrics of the New Mass approved specifically (“in forma specifica“) by Pope Paul VI presume that the priest will be facing the altar in the traditional manner as the norm for its celebration. The rubrics instruct the priest to turn to the congregation at specific moments of the Mass and then to turn back to face the altar, e.g. No 25, 104, 111, 113. These rubrics can also be found in the General Instruction, 107, 115, 116, 122, 198, 199. Where the rubrics governing the actual celebration of Mass are concerned, both in Order of Mass and in the General Instruction, there is not one which envisages a celebration facing the people.
The Mass On Sunday broadcast on RTE One TV has improved drastically over the past number of weeks?
Today’s Mass was to celebrate the ‘Year for Priests’ with Mass parts by Haydn, a wonderful recessional by the same! To make it more impressive, the choir were all young!
Two weeks ago, Mass was celebrated by the Schola Cantorum from Mullingar, and before that a Solemn Mass from Drogheda with the Latin Mass parts from the Mass of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Brick by brick from RTE? Here’s hoping!
Still waiting to see a Latin Mass from St. Kevin’s in Dublin though.
Archbishop Nichols celebrates Mass for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart and the start of the Year for Priests.