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Holy Week 2012

Posted on 01. Mar, 2012 by in Carousel

Holy Week 2012 at the Pontifical Irish College

    Reconciliation Service Tuesday 27 March 2012                               

A reconciliation service and individual confession in preparation for Easter  18.30

 Holy Thursday 05 April, 2012
Mass of the Lord’s Supper 18.00

Good Friday 06 April 2012
Liturgy of Christ’s Passion 15.00

Easter Saturday 07 April 2012
   Easter Vigil 21.00

                                                     Easter Sunday 08 April  2012
                                                 Mass 10.00

 

The Pontifical Irish College has chosen Solidarity with South Sudan as the chairty to benefit from 2012 Lenten appeal. 

 Solidarity with South Sudan is a project that seeks to promote the Kingdom of God in partnership with the local church and the people of Sudan through the establishment and development of teacher and health training institutes and other pastoral initiatives. It is a consortium of more than 170 religious congregations. The Irish Loreto sisters are involved in this project and run a school in the country. Sr Patricia Murray, an Irish Loreto sister, is Executive Director while another Irish woman Anne Carthy is Chief Development Officer. South Sudan has only recently achieved independence and is facing daunting challenges in terms of feeding its people and building a new country. Solidarity with South Sudan has identified education and in particular the training of teachers as central to the survival of the country. Your contribution to our Lenten appeal will be used to fund the training of 101 new teachers. For further information, please see the attachment or www.solidarityssudan.org

 

Snow in Rome

Posted on 04. Feb, 2012 by in Carousel

Candidacy for Holy Orders 2012

Posted on 29. Jan, 2012 by in Carousel

 
During Sunday Mass on 29 January 2012 Bishop Brian Farrell acepted four Irish College seminarians as candidates for Holy Orders. Bishops Farrell was born in Dublin and is Secretary of the Pontifical Council of the Promotion of Unity among Christians.
 
The semenarians admitted as canditates were Andrew Black, Diocese of Down and Connor, Raymond Donnelly, Diocese of Clogher, Micheal McGavigan, Diocese of Derry and Paul Murphy, Archdiocese of Armagh.                                               
  
  The Rite of Admission to Candidacy for Diaconate and Priesthood is usually celebrated during Mass and conferred by a Bishop. In the Irish tradition it marks the final stage of preparation for ordination to the diaconate and subsequently as a priest.

This rite is celebrated when a man who aspires to the priesthood has completed the necessary human, spiritual,  academic and pastoral formation to be publicly accepted as a candidate for ordination.   His intention to receive the Sacrament of Orders is expressed publicly and accepted by the bishop.  In accordance with Church Law, a person is not to be ordained unless he has first been enrolled among the candidates through the liturgical rite of admission to candidacyIn the rite, the bishop addressed the candidates saying,

“Aware of the Lord’s concern for his flock and realising the needs of the Church, our brothers consider themselves ready to respond generously to the call of the Lord. Trusting the Lord in whom they put the hope of faithfully pursuing their vocation, they say with the Prophet, ‘Here I am, send me.’”

 

 

  

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