Notices

Confirmations

We congratulate the students from Monkstown Park Junior School who will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation this Sunday (19th May) during the 10 am mass.


Annual Organ recital Series 2024

Whitefriar Street Church

Sundays in May @ 7 pm

The annual organ recital series takes place in Whitefriar Street Church every Sunday in May.  The details of the each week’s recitals are on the following poster.


Novena to the Holy Spirit  12th – 20th May 2024

You are warmly invited to join once again with every parish in the diocese in a Novena to the Holy Spirit our dedicated period of prayer, reflection and planning for the renewal of the Church in the Archdiocese of Dublin. The Novena will take place in the nine days from 12th – 20th May beginning…


First Holy Communion

We congratulate the children from Monkstown Park Junior School who will celebrate thair First Holy Communion here in St. PAtrick’s Church, Monkstown on Sunday 12th May @ 10 am.

 


Donnybrook Pastoral Area – Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock

​Archbishop Dermot Farrell will lead the annual diocesan pilgrimage to Knock on Saturday, April 27.This year we are celebrating 145 years since the apparition in 1879 and the Choir of Many Voices from throughout the Archdiocese will be back this year. A series of workshops with interesting and thought-provoking speakers is being planned.

The Donnybrook Parish…


Lay Ministry Diocesan Collection (27th/28th April)

The Annual Lay Ministry Collection will take place on the weekend of 27th/28th April next. This collection will replace the usual Share collection.  Click on the image below to read the letter from Archbishop Farrell.


Supporting Parish and Diocesan Finances

Henry Roche, a member of our Parish Finance Committee will speak at all masses this weekend (20th / 21st April) to provide parishioners with an update on parish finances.  There are a variety of methods of making contributions from the various envelopes, the ‘tap and go’ contactless terminals as well as online and standing orders. …


St. Vincent de Paul – Monthly Collection

Our local conference of St. Vincent de Paul will take up their monthly collection after mass this weekend (20th & 21st April). Donations can also be made through the Parish Office or online.

 


Vocations Sunday (Good Shpherd Sunday) 21st April 2024

This Sunday, April 21st is Good Shepherd Sunday (Vocations Sunday) when we pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life.  This Sunday marks the close of the special Year of Prayer for Vocations to the Diocesan Priesthood – Take The Rick For Christ which commenced on Good Shepherd Sunday last year.  Mass for Vocations…


Prayer of the holy Father on Good Friday

On Sunday 7th April, Archbishop Dermot Farrell celebrated Mass here in Monkstown.

He used the following prayer at the end of the Prayer of the Faithful, which was taken from the Good Friday Prayer which Pope Francis composed. A parishioner asked for a copy of this, so I list it here for the benefit of…