Holy Week 2012
Posted on 01. Mar, 2012 by John Coughlan 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 John Coughlan in Carousel
Candidacy for Holy Orders 2012
Posted on 29. Jan, 2012 by John Coughlan in Carousel
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.’”