Online Resources at This Trying Time

Just as out there in the real world people are building up vital resources (e.g. testing kits, face masks etc.), we are building up a small supply here of online resources which, hopefully, will be found helpful in their way too (see the 'Covid' tab on the menu-bar). In this regard, I think we can call our ability to transmit Mass live here in our parishes a (spiritual) life-line.

Dublin Diocesan (Virtual) Pilgrimage to Knock, Sunday 26th. Take part in Rosary at 2.30 and Mass at 3.00 p.m. here

People may like to visit Fr Kevin in the 'Upper Room' on Mondays and Thursdays, 7.30 pm, on the Clondalkin Combined  Parishes' Facebook Page or on their Facebook Video Page. Fr Kevin gave these talks at this time last year in our own parishes -- a time (so distant now!) when we could meet freely in public. (Please note: if you do not have or wish to have a Facebook account, you can simply select 'Not now' on the sign-up notice and continue to read or view (in the case of videos).) 

Keep in touch too with our own Facebook Page.

Below is an idea for an album that you might like to insert a page in to have as a memory of these strange days when we come to look back on them -- hopefully, not too long more. Your page could be some (children's) art work (secular or religious) or maybe a bit of a diary or a photo of something in our parishes that will capture some of the atmosphere we're in the middle of at the moment. Send your page to donalpmcmahon@gmail.com.

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Mass Times Until End of Lockdown

As was the practice during Easter Week (see below), Mass will continue to be celebrated online only in Saggart every day at 11 a.m.  To follow the Mass, click 'Mass Live' on menu-bar above.  These arrangements will remain in place until the end of the present period of lockdown.

Holy Week and Easter 2020

Archbishop Martin issued the following statement on Wednesday, 1st April (full text here) :

"Regrettably, I feel that it will not be possible to have any public celebration of the Liturgies of Holy Week. It would be very difficult to limit the number of those attending, especially on Good Friday, when many vulnerable people might feel obliged to come to our Churches.

"This makes it all the more urgent to ensure that people are made aware of the manner in which they can access the ceremonies by television or online and to ensure that parishioners are made aware of the dates and times of transmissions."  ('Making people aware' is what this website is now doing.)

Archbishop Martin's statement includes many suggestions for an alternative way of attending the Easter ceremonies this year. Another document, from the Bishops' Conference (here and look too at the video of Bishop Nulty, Being Church Online for One Another) is also full of useful information on how to do things differently -- since we have to -- this year.  In fact, there is so much choice that this writer, anyway, feels the need to choose just one main source and maybe sample one or two others. So we'll follow the ceremonies at home in our own parishes (here), with a occasional visit maybe to our cathedral in Dublin (streaming here, with timetable here), or even one to the Vatican itself (here).

Dates and Times of Live-Stream Transmission from Saggart (click Mass Live on menu-bar above)

HOLY THURSDAY LITURGY

GOOD FRIDAY LITURGY

HOLY SATURDAY LITURGY

READINGS FOR EASTER SUNDAY