Building Hope Feedback: Archbishop Farrell responds
Thank you once again for your engagement with the Easter 2022 initial phase of the Building Hope strategic planning process in the Archdiocese.
Document from Archbishop Farrell summarising your responses to the initial parish Building Hope engagement below. It offers a clear sense of the direction in which we will now travel together.
Accompanying Families: Sacraments of Initiation Policy, Dublin 2022
This new Policy Statement seeks to affirm, strengthen and develop the many years of consultation about the Sacraments of Initiation in the Archdiocese. See letter of Archbishop Farrell.
Diocesan Safeguarding Day, Sun 25 Sept 2022
Sunday 25 Sept 2022 was Diocesan Safeguarding Day. Our Safeguarding Representatives are Catherine O’Flynn and Anne Gallagher. We are very grateful to both of them for undertaking this important task on our behalf.
Evening Recollection, Tuesday 20 September 2022, 7:30-9:30pm (in person & online)
Recollection Theme: “Harmony & Happiness – a sustainable lifestyle”. It was livestreamed on the parish website, Facebook and YouTube. Video recording available here.
Season of Creation: 1 September – 4 October 2022
The Season of Creation is marked throughout the Christian world from 1 September to 4 October (Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi) and celebrates the joy of creation as well as encouraging awareness-raising initiatives to protect the natural environment. The theme for the Season of Creation 2022 is “Listen to the Voice of Creation”.
Evening Recollection, Tuesday 16 August 2022, 7:30-9:30pm (in person & online)
Recollection Theme: “Charity lies in Understanding even more than in giving”. It was livestreamed on the parish website, Facebook and YouTube. Video recording here.
Solemn Mass in honour of St Josemaría Escrivá, 25 June 2022 at 12 noon
The Solemn Mass in Our Lady Queen of Peace on Saturday 25 June at 12 noon, in honour of St Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei was very well attended, with lots of families with young children. Homily of Fr Donncha Ó hAodha here.
Evening Recollection, Tuesday 21 June 2022, 7:30-9:30pm (in person & online)
Recollection Theme: ‘The love of God has been poured into our hearts…’. It was livestreamed on the parish website, Facebook and YouTube. Video recording available here.
Building Hope: First phase of implementation of Task Force Report
World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Sunday 8 May 2022
“At the heart of the Christian vocation is an invitation, the same invitation Jesus extended to the first disciples, to ‘come, follow me… I will make you fish for people’.” – Archbishop Dermot Farrell.
Diocesan vocations resources can be found here.