Family of Parishes NewsletterThe series of catecheses offered at recent Masses by Fr Fergus Ryan on how we celebrate Mass in the Roman tradition and on the Nicene Creed are now available on the Barryroe Parish website
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Pastoral Message for the communities of the Family of Parishes
Read at all Masses on the weekend on May 10/11th 2025
The priests have worked together to create a fair and sustainable timetable for the months of June, July and August.
After careful reflection and discussion in recent weeks, we the six priests ministering in this family of parishes have developed a new summer timetable. It’s different from last years.
Summer Masses 2025
From Saturday 7 June 2025 the weekend Mass times will be as follows:
Saturday Vigil Mass
- 7:00pm - Clonakilty
- 7:00pm - Rosscarbery
Sunday Mass
- 8:30am - Clonakilty
- 9:00am - Courtmacsherry (July and August only)
- 10:00am - Ardfield
- 10:00am - Barryroe
- 11:00am - Clonakilty
- 11:00am - Rossmore
- 11:30am - Rosscarbery
- 11:30am - Timoleague
Fr. Ted Collins, Fr. Tom Hayes, Canon John Kingston, Canon Martin O'Driscoll, Fr. Fergus Ryan, Fr. Fergus Tuohy
You can check Mass Times using this link
Bishop Fintan Gavin welcomes the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost OSA as our new pope.
Cardinal Prevost has taken the name Pope Leo XIV and his election comes on day two of the Conclave in Rome where 133 cardinal electors were gathered in the Sistine Chapel.
Bishop Fintan Gavin also extends his congratulations to the community of Augustinian Friars in Cork as the new pope belongs to the worldwide Augustinian family which is one of the oldest religious orders of the Catholic Church.
“It’s very encouraging to hear the key points made by the Holy Father in his first remarks. He emphasised the need for unity and peace in the world and in the Church.”
“Pope Leo also has a connection with Cork and Ross Diocese because until last year he was a bishop in Peru. Many of the priests and religious sisters in our diocese have also spent time as missionaries in Peru.”
The choice of name which the new pope has taken also tells us something of his emphasis in faith, Bishop Fintan said.
“Pope Leo XIII, the last pope to take the name Leo, issued an important document in 1891 on the social teaching of the Church. And this new pope is someone who has ministered among the poor in Peru.”
I invite the people of our diocese to pray for Pope Leo as he becomes our chief shepherd and guides us closer to the Risen Lord.”
Cardinal Provost announced as Pope Leo XIVSearch
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