Christmas 2024

The Mystical Nativity, Painted c.1500 by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), Oil on canvas, © National Gallery, London

For times of Masses, see official site here.  The readings for Masses on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are here.

Carol Service, Sunday 15th December

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Carol Service

Hosted by The Saggart Church Choir

Sunday 15^th December, 2024 at 7:30pm

Church of The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary

Saggart, Co. Dublin

 Come along and help us celebrate the story of the Nativity in word and song

Our short service is approximately 45 minutes long and admission is free.  Great for all the family with lots of familiar carols to sing along with.  Enter into the festive spirit and wear your favourite Christmas jumper if you like.  Looking forward to seeing you!!

End of the Missalette and Return of the Missal?

As we can see, Templeogue parish is parting ways with the missalette as from today (Sunday 24th Nov., feast of Christ the King) and proposing, if so wished, use of a missal instead, e.g. that published by St Paul's Publications (Maynooth) at the very attractive price of €10 (see here). Each of us will, no doubt, have our own ideas as to the wisdom of such a move (e.g. maybe following the text in a missalette complements, rather than takes away from, listening to it, since what the reader really does is bring it to life on behalf of the congregation). So we come full circle, don't we, going back to the missals that we used in the 50s/60s but with the following big difference -- Mass in the ordinary (vernacular) language of the people and not in Latin, a change brought in after Vatican II. (By the way, if you would still like a bit of Latin (!), you can get a 2025 Sunday Missal (English + Latin) for another very attractive (though in sterling) price of £9.95 from the Catholic Truth Society in London (see here).) Anyway, it's good to talk about a topic that has come more and more to the fore in recent times what with so much being available online. By the way, as the parish notice above says, we too have the readings on the "the front page of our parish website", i.e. the home page of this site, Parish Website 2 (to your left here).