On Good Friday and Holy Saturday mornings at 10am, we’ll pray the Office of Readings in St. Brigid’s Church, Dunleer. The Church recommends that the Office be celebrated in church with the people of God on these mornings.
So please do come join us. It’ll only take about 15 minutes.
Click below for a 1 minute video to help explain
Please remember to return your Trócaire boxes as soon as possible to the sacristy after any Mass.
Please do not leave boxes at the back of the churches.
Thank you.
In his gospel account of the resurrection, the evangelist Saint Luke tells us it was very early in the morning ‘at the first sign of dawn’ when the women discovered that the stone had been rolled way from the tomb of Jesus. Although they had left home in darkness and grief, by sunrise the women were witnessing with joy to
You may have noticed that crosses and images / statues in our parish churches have been veiled since last Sunday. Crosses and images may be veiled on the Fifth Sunday of Lent. Crosses are unveiled following the Good Friday Liturgy, while images are unveiled before the beginning of the Easter Vigil.
So why…?
“The veiling of crosses and images is
The traditional annual collection for the Holy land will be taken up at the liturgy on Good Friday. Parish envelope boxes contain an envelope for this purpose.
From Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, Prefect of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches:
“From the very beginning, Christian communities of diverse traditions have safeguarded them and, for centuries, the Friars Minor of the Franciscan Custody