Diocesan News
CONNECT Summer BBQ for young adults aged between 18 and 35 years
This will take place on:
Thursday 6 June
at 7pm
in Mardyke House
It is a wonderful opportunity to meet other young people from across the Diocese of Cork and Ross. The evening will include food, fellowship, music and much more. There is a nominal fee of €8.
Please do spread the word
Post-primary students were presented with awards which commemorate the life of a pope and acknowledges their faith and service in their parishes.
Students from Sacred Heart Secondary School, Clonakilty, had engaged in a host of faith-based activities and a range of social awareness activities within the parishes of Barryroe, Timoleague & Clonakilty.
They were presented with their Pope John Paul II awards by Bishop Fintan Gavin at Mass in Clonakilty on Sunday May 12th 2024.
The recipients were Sinead Walsh (Timoleague Parish), Ciara Collins (Clonakilty Parish), Lauren Eady (Clonakilty Parish), Saoirse Whelton (Barryroe Parish, (Caoimhe Ní Bhuachalla (Barryroe Parish), Sara O’Sullivan (Clonakilty Parish) and Sinead Crowley (Clonakilty Parish).
Students from Coláiste Éamann Rís in Cork were also presented with their Pope John Paul II Awards by Bishop Fintan on Saturday last, May 11th in St. Finbarr’s South Parish, Cork.
The photo includes Ms. Anne Marie Nolan, their Awards Mentor, and Fr. Kevin O'Regan, Co-PP..
The six students in the photograph are: Matthew Keder, Beatriz Amieiro, Laura Pason, Michaela Madankova, Katie O’Leary Luke Aibangbee. Two presentations in adstentia were to Conor Mc Carthy & Antonio Garcia-Cervigon Moreno.
Photo shows: (Back Row): Fr Fergus Tuohy CC, Saoirse Whelton, Bishop Fintan Gavin, Ciara Collins, Sara O'Sullivan, Paul Kelly, Co-ordinator of Faith Formation in Post-Primary Schools; (Front Row): Anne Marie Brosnan, Principal; Lauren Eady, Sinead Walsh, Sheila Gilbert.
Bishop Fintan at Mass to begin 24-hour adoration
Bishop Fintan was the principal celebrant at Mass on Friday, May 10th, in Saints Peter and Paul's Church, to officially launch perpetual Eucharistic Adoration 24/7 in the heart of Cork City.
To enable this to happen over 500 people have made a commitment to pray for one hour each week. Hundreds of those turned up for the special Mass.
The adoration will happen during the day from 8am in the morning until 8pm in Saints Peter and Paul's Church (just off Patrick's Street) and then it will continue during the night at the Dominican Church, St Mary's on Pope's Quay.
Bishop Fintan Gavin has welcomed the recent decision of the Minister for Education to officially sanction two new primary schools in the Diocese of Cork and Ross
Scoil Mhuire agus Bharra will open in Bantry Parish following the amalgamation of Our Lady of Mercy National School and St. Finbarr’s Boys National School in the town. The new co-educational primary school will be located in the existing school buildings.
Bandon Primary School will open in Bandon Parish following the amalgamation of Presentation Convent Girls National School and Scoil Phádraig Naofa BNS. This new co-educational school will be located in the current adjoining school buildings.
Two New Catholic Primary Schools to Open in the Diocese
Canon Michael Riordan RIPThe death has occurred of Canon Michael Riordan in Cork University Hospital, on 6th May 2024.
Canon Michael, a native of Kilmichael Parish, was ordained to the Priesthood on 23rd May 1959 in the Church of the Resurrection, Farranree, and began his ministry on temporary mission in the Archdiocese of Calabar, Nigeria for two years. On returning to the diocese, he ministered as Assistant Curate in Ballingeary, Curate in Muintir Bháire and Passage West.
He then served in the Cork and Ross South American Mission in El Porvenir, Trujillo, Peru, from 1965 – 1971. On his return home, he ministered as Curate in Watergrasshill, Carrigaline and St. Patrick’s Parish.
Canon Michael returned to Peru to again serve with the Cork and Ross South American Mission in La Esperenza, Trujillo, from 1985 – 1991.
He then ministered as Parish Priest in Togher Parish from 1991 – 2011.
May he rest in the peace of the Lord whom he served.
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