Medjugorje Pilgrimage from Cork Airport

With Spiritual Director

Group Leader Jim Keogh

This pilgrimage travels to Medjugorje from Cork with Aer Lingus on 3^rd June 2026.

Everyone is most welcome! Full daily programme which includes a visit to all the apparition sites where Our Lady first appeared to the six children in June 1981.Our 4star hotel is conveniently located close to the village centre and the St James Church. Luxury air-conditioned coach transfers to and from Medjugorje to Dubrovnik airport. 7 nights 4* hotel accommodation. Half board: breakfast & dinner each day. Check-in assistance at airports. For further information and full details please contact Jim Keogh 021 4885371 / 0872678793 Please note €100 off per person for bookings paid in full before 3rd November 2025!  N.B. Our places are limited and can only be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Meeting and Quiz notice - Pioneer Association

As we begin another term of activities may I thank you again for your ongoing support for the Pioneer Association. 

le gach dea ghuí agus beannacht

Sorcha Uí Laoghaire

Chairperson, Cork  Regional Pioneer Council 

The next meeting of Cork Regional Pioneer Council will be held in the S.M.A. Parish Centre on Wednesday 15th Ocotber at 8p.m. All Are welcome. 

The Cork Pioneer Diocesan Council is  holding a Family Table Quiz  at 7.30 p.m. on Friday 14th November in Togher Community Centre T12 TX2Y. Entries by 7th November

€20 per table. For further details contact Aislinn Cogan  0879699488.  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Sorcha Uí Laoghaire  0863642619 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CONNECT 7 – an invitation to young adults (18 to 35 years)

Connect 7 will take place on Saturday 18^th October in the Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint Anne, Cork City. The day begins at 2pm and includes keynote talks from Fr. Conor McGrath (Vocations Director, Diocese of Down and Connor) and Lorraine Buckley (Faith Development Coordinator, Diocese of Cork and Ross).

This year’s theme is: ‘Finding purpose – God’s plan for my life’. As well as the talk, we will have Mass, adoration, pizza, a panel discussion, confessions and much more! Registration is €10 on Eventbrite.ie – search CONNECT 7.

YEAR OF PRAYER, LISTENING AND DISCERNMENT

Last September, Bishop Fintan invited us to join with him in a Year of Prayer, Listening, and Discernment across the diocese. During the year, following our information meetings, there was a series of gatherings in each of the 16 Families of Parishes, with religious communities, the new Irish communities as well as engagement with our school communities. The gatherings focused on the themes of:

• Baptism
• Sunday Eucharist
• Review of the Family of Parishes

These gatherings gave us an emerging sense of what God is calling us to do, what we should strive for, and what we must prioritise in this time.

Bishop Fintan would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all those who engaged in the journey so far and to those who supported it with their prayer.

Bishop Fintan has written an initial response to what has emerged from the gatherings and invites us to read this Pastoral Letter which is now available at the back of the church. The Pastoral Letter and the thematic summary of the responses from our Family of Parishes and the diocese as a whole are available on the diocesan website (www.corkandross.org).

An invitation to the 99th Cork Eucharistic Procession:

Please join us for the 99^th Eucharistic Procession which takes place on Sunday, June 22^nd leaving the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Anne at 3.00pm. It would be great to continue the tradition of parishioners from parishes throughout the city and beyond to walk in the procession.

Parking is available in the grounds of St. Anthony’s Convent, St. Mary’s Road (across from the Cathedral). This year to accommodate the growing large numbers it was decided to take the final prayer and Benediction outside onto a specially constructed platform down at the end of Grand Parade near the National Monument. For more details see www.corkandross.org

Matt Talbot Centenary weekend services

A  Cork celebration of the centenary of Matt Talbot's death will be held in The Church of the Ascension, Gurranabraher parish at 7.30 p.m. on Friday 27th June.

Fr. Tomás Walsh will be the celebrant and homilist at the mass and special prayers for Matt's beatification will be said.

Thank you for your help and support at all times

le gach dea ghuí agus beannacht

Sorcha Uí Laoghaire

Chairperson, Cork Regional Pioneer Council.

Pope Francis Remembrance

Following the announcement by the Holy See that Pope Francis has ‘returned to the
House of the Lord’, Bishop Fintan Gavin invites the people of the Diocese of Cork and
Ross to unite in prayer to God at this time. “I invite the parishioners, priests, deacons
and religious of our diocese to join as one with the faithful across the globe as we
commend Pope Francis to the Lord.

We give thanks to Almighty God for the gift of Pope Francis as shepherd of the people
of God and we thank God for his selfless service and dedication to the end of his
earthly life. We remember Pope Francis as one who challenged us to reach out to those
on the margins and to bring God’s mercy to all those we encounter. We pray together
that Pope Francis’ call to all of us to make this Jubilee Year a Year of Hope may be
fulfilled.

In what was to be his last pastoral message to the faithful on Easter Sunday, Pope
Francis said: ‘All those who put their hope in God place their feeble hands in his strong
and mighty hand; they let themselves be raised up and set out on a journey. Together
with the risen Jesus, they become pilgrims of hope, witnesses of the victory of love
and of the disarmed power of Life.’

We pray together now that Pope Francis prayer will be answered and that his soul
may be in eternal peace with God.“
An online Book of Condolences has been opened by the Irish Bishops' Conference and
people are invited to submit their messages of sympathy. Here

CHURCH OF THE WAY OF THE CROSS, TOGHER – HOLY WEEK/EASTER 2025

Holy Thursday

7:30 p.m. Mass of the Last Supper - Followed by Holy Hour at Altar of Repose

                                                                           Good Friday                                                                             

12:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross

3:00 p.m. Celebration of the Lord's Passion

Holy Saturday

8:00 p.m. Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday

Masses: 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 6:30 p.m.

Easter Week: Mass: 9:30 a.m. only