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.

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.

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.

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”.

We’d like to thank all who attended our Building Hope Parish Gathering on Monday, 30 May, in Donnybrook Parish Centre.
Your observations are being collated and will be forwarded to the Archdiocese shortly. We will also make them available to you, our parishioners.

The comments of parishioners at our two Synodal gatherings have been collated by our Animators and sent to the Archdiocese for onward transmission.
We are very grateful to our Animators, Group Leaders and parishioners for organising and participating in this important conversation.
See our Parish Feedback Report here and Diocesan Synthesis here.

Over €3,800 was raised in the Special Collection taken up at Masses on the weekend of 26/27 March to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and especially the families and children fleeing for their lives from the barbarism and destruction being inflicted on their homeland by the aggressor. Thank you for your generous solidarity!

After his Angelus address on Sunday 20 March, Pope Francis said:
I invite every community and all the faithful to unite with me on Friday 25 March, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, for the Solemn Act of Consecration of humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, so that she, the Queen of Peace, may help us obtain peace.

Alongside the Synodal Pathway process, the Archbishop set up a Task Force to explore ways of renewing the church in our Diocese. The Task Force report was issued in late Summer entitled, ‘Building Hope’. One of its recommendations was that the Diocese should produce a Statement of Mission that would be a reference point for the process of renewal. The Archbishop issued this Statement of Mission on 9 February 2022.

A Memorial Mass for Msgr Cormac Burke was celebrated in Our Lady Queen of Peace on Saturday 18 December 2021 at 12 noon by Fr Donncha Ó hAodha, Regional Vicar of Opus Dei for Ireland. Video recording available here.