Forty Hours Solemn Eucharistic Devotion
Posted on 27. Feb, 2018 by John Coughlan in Carousel, Uncategorized
Santísimo by LaRedCultural is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
The Forty Hours Eucharistic Devotion holds a special place in the spiritual life of the community at the Pontifical Irish College. During Lent, from Thursday 1st until Saturday 3rd March, the residents of the College availed of the opportunity to gather as a community before the Blessed Sacrament and to pray before the Lord in continuous solemn adoration.
This distinct time of prayer gave us time to deepen our appreciation of the importance of the mystery of the Eucharist in our lives. Forty is a significant number. Noah was on the ark for forty days. The Israelites spent forty years in the desert. Jesus fasted for forty days, and it is maintained that Jesus lay in the tomb for approximately forty hours from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. This period of prayer also reminded us of the length of time Jesus spent with his disciples between the Resurrection and the Ascension.
The Forty Hours Eucharistic Devotion was a grace-filled opportunity for the College as we gathered together as a community to recognize the great gift we have in the Holy Eucharist. This Lent the intention of the community gathered in prayer over the days of the Forty Hours Eucharistic Devotion was the protection of all human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death.
Choose Life! see chooselife2018.ie
Throughout the period of Lent the community at the Irish College have committed to praying together twice a week for the same intention of the protection of all human life.
St Mary’s College Singers
Posted on 20. Feb, 2018 by John Coughlan in Carousel, Uncategorized
St Mary’s College Singers pictured with the Vice-Rector, Fr Paul Finnerty
On Sunday 18th February 2018, the St Mary’s College Singers visited the College. They sang at the Sunday Celebration of the Eucharist.
St. Mary’s College Singers, established in 2008, is a choir of 47 Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass voices from those that have a connection with St. Mary’s College C.S.Sp, in Rathmines, Dublin, an all-boys’ primary & secondary school, founded in 1890 and run by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. We sing a wide variety of music, both sacred and secular, contemporary and classical. Our primary role is in supporting the liturgy in school masses, communion, confirmation etc, but we also perform stand alone concerts and carol services in both the school and in the community. We thoroughly enjoy singing and hope we give some of that joy to our community and audiences.
The highlight of our year has been our participation with the community and congregation, at Holy Mass, at the Irish Pontifical College Rome where we received a very warm welcome for which we are sincerely grateful to you all.
Go raibh mile maith agat agus síochán a bheith leat.
Visit of Archbishop Jorge Patrón Wong
Posted on 19. Jan, 2018 by John Coughlan in Carousel, Uncategorized
Archbishop Jorge Patrón Wong with Fr Paul Gitter and the seminarians from St John Vianney College Seminary
On Tuesday 16th January 2018, Archbishop Jorge Patrón Wong, the Secretary for Seminaries at the Congregation for the Clergy, visited the Irish College.
He visited a group of seminarians from the St John Vianney College Seminary, Minnesota, USA, who were concluding their “Semester in Rome” programme. This group spent the Autumn semester here at the Pontifical Irish College from September 2017 to January 2018. Their formation itinerary during their time in Rome included opportunities to make pilgrimages to the burial places of Ss Peter & Paul, cultural trips within the city, as well as throughout Italy and Europe, and including modules in philosophy, art & architecture, and the Italian language at some of the Universities here in Rome. We hope that they were enriched by their time here as much as the seminary community was encouraged and energised by their presence with us over the past few months. At the end of January a new group of “SJV men” will arrive to commence the semester here.
“Men in Christ. Men of the Church. Men for Others.”
Included in the picture is Fr Paul Gitter, who is the Director of Formation for the St John Vianney men at the Irish College.
More photos are available on the Irish College flickr stream.
A Time for Priests 2017
Posted on 19. May, 2017 by John Coughlan in Uncategorized
“The Gospel of the Family. Joy for the World”
18th – 23rd September 2017
Pontifical Irish College, Rome
Photograph from Time for Priests 2016
Dublin has been chosen by Pope Francis to host the next World Meeting of Families in August 2018. This major world event celebrates family as the cornerstone of our lives; the fundamental building block of society and the Church. In preparation for this meeting, the Pontifical Irish College invites priests to come to Rome from 11th – 15th September 2017 in order to reflect on the theme of “The Gospel of the Family, Joy for the World”. The five days in Rome will include a series of talks and liturgies on the theme of the World Meeting along with guided visits to significant Churches and Basilicas, a day of spiritual recollection and reflection, a pilgrimage to an Italian shrine, along with an opportunity to attend a General Audience with Pope Francis.
Speakers and presenters include: Bishop Denis Nulty, Fr Federico Lombardi SJ, Ms Deirdre O’Rawe, Fr Tim Bartlett, Ms. Anne Griffin.
The cost of the time is €700. Places are limited. A deposit of €300 is required to secure a place. Travel arrangements to Rome are the responsibility of participants. Transfers to the College from the airport are included in the price. Rooms are en-suite. Meals on a half board basis are included, with an opening and closing dinner. Those who wish to arrive early or remain following the conclusion of the time are welcome to do so, subject to the availability of rooms.
If you wish to reserve a place, please telephone the Pontifical Irish College main office number, +39 06 772 631 or email ufficio@irishcollege.org
A Time for Parishioners 2017
Posted on 19. May, 2017 by John Coughlan in Uncategorized
“The Gospel of the Family. Joy for the World”
18th – 23rd September 2017
Pontifical Irish College, Rome
Dublin has been chosen by Pope Francis to host the next World Meeting of Families in August 2018. This major world event celebrates family as the cornerstone of our lives; the fundamental building block of society and the Church. In preparation for this meeting, the Pontifical Irish College invites parishioners to come to Rome from 18th – 23rd September 2017 in order to reflect on the theme of “The Gospel of the Family, Joy for the World”. The five days in Rome will include a series of talks and liturgies on the theme of the World Meeting along with guided visits to significant Churches and Basilicas, a day of spiritual recollection and reflection, a pilgrimage to an Italian shrine, along with an opportunity to attend a General Audience with Pope Francis.
The cost of the time is €700. Places are limited. A deposit of €300 is required to secure a place. Travel arrangements to Rome are the responsibility of participants. Transfers to the College from the airport are included in the price. Rooms are en-suite. Meals on a half board basis are included, with an opening and closing dinner. Those who wish to arrive early or remain following the conclusion of the time are welcome to do so, subject to the availability of rooms.
If you wish to reserve a place, please telephone the Pontifical Irish College main office number, +39 06 772 631 or email ufficio@irishcollege.org
Jubilee of Mercy Conference
Posted on 17. Oct, 2016 by John Coughlan in Uncategorized
The Pontifical Irish College, Rome, will host a special conference at the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th November 2016.
On Friday evening, at 20.00, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation will share his insights from his unique vantage point as the one tasked by Pope Francis to oversee the Extraordinary Jubilee Year. On Saturday morning, at 10.00 theologian Dr Mary McCaughey will speak on mercy and our understanding of God. After the coffee break, then at 11.15, Fr Roberto Cherubini of the Community of Sant’Egidio will speak about merciful outreach to the poor, drawing on his ministry to the poor in Rome. The celebration of Mass will follow, with buffet lunch to conclude.
Friday 18th November 2016:
(Chair: H.E. Emma Madigan, Ambassador of Ireland to the Holy See)
20.00: Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation: ‘Mercy: The Heart of the Church’s Life’
Saturday 19th November 2016:
(Chair: To be announced)
10.00 – 10.45: Dr Mary McCaughey, theologian: ‘Mercy and our understanding of God’
10.45 – 11.15: Coffee break
11.15 – 12.00: Fr Roberto Cherubini, Community of Sant’Egidio: ‘The street as our teacher: Learning the language of mercy from the poor.’
12.30: Mass
Buffet to conclude
‘Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life. All of her pastoral activity should be caught up in the tenderness she makes present to believers; nothing in her preaching and in her witness to the world can be lacking in mercy. The Church’s very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love.’ – Pope Francis, Bull of Indiction of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Misericordiae Vultus.
Holy Week and Easter 2015 at the Irish College
Posted on 26. Mar, 2015 by John Coughlan in Uncategorized
The washing of feet on Holy Thursday
The liturgies of Holy Week and Easter at the Irish College are open to the public. All welcome. The times are as follows:
Palm Sunday, 29th March 2015
Mass – 10.00
Holy Thursday, 2nd April 2015
Mass of the Lord’s Supper – 18.00
Good Friday, 3rd April 2015
Celebration of the Passion of the Lord – 15.00
Holy Saturday, 4th April 2015
Easter Vigil – 21.00
Easter Sunday, 5th April 2015
Mass – 10.00
The paschal fire at the beginning of the Easter Vigil liturgy.
Forty Hours Adoration
Posted on 15. Feb, 2015 by John Coughlan in Uncategorized
The annual Forty Hours Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will take place in the Chapel of the Irish College from 20.00 on Thursday 19th until 12 noon Mass on Saturday 21st February 2014. Any members of the Sunday congregation or other friends of the College are welcome to come in for a while to join the community in keeping watch with our Eucharistic Lord during the period.
‘So let us ask ourselves this evening, in adoring Christ who is really present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be transformed by him? Do I let the Lord who gives himself to me, guide me to going out ever more from my little enclosure, in order to give, to share, to love him and others?’ – Pope Francis, homily at Mass on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, 30th May 2013.
Happy Christmas! (& Mass arrangements)
Posted on 21. Dec, 2014 by John Coughlan in Uncategorized
Monsignor Ciarán, Fr George, Fr Tom, Fr Hugh and all the seminarians and postgraduates of the Pontifical Irish College, Rome, wish all friends of the Irish College and visitors to this website a very happy Christmas. May the celebration of Christ’s birth fill you with wonder and joy.
Please note that there will be no public Mass at the Irish College during the Christmas period. The next public Mass at the College will be on Sunday, 11th January 2015 at 10.00.
All Saints Day 2014
Posted on 29. Oct, 2014 by John Coughlan in Uncategorized
Mass for the Solemnity of All Saints will be celebrated in the Chapel of All Saints of Ireland in the Irish College this Saturday, 1st November 2014 at 10.00. All welcome.
Afterwards, there will be prayers in Campo Verano cemetery for those buried in the Irish College plot there at approximately 12.00.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh anamnacha na marbh.