Diocese of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland
The Diocese of Cloyne presents
The Meaning of Marriage
Family and the Referendum Marriage in light of the Bishops’ Pastoral letter a presentation with questions and answers on Tuesday 17th February at St. Vincent de Paul Hall, Charleville at 8.00pm.
All welcome.
A Series of Lent Reflections
Bishop William Crean is delighted to announce the Diocese of Cloyne 2015 Series of Prayer.
You are invited to come, inform and deepen your spiritual life during the season of Lent.
The reflections will take place during the season of Lent 2015. [Read more…]
Our monthly Taizé Mass is celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of each month in Holy Cross Church, Charleville, at 7pm. The beautiful chant and twilight lanterns are truly conducive to an atmosphere of meditation and deep encounter with the Lord who speaks to our hearts. This Mass can be particularly helpful to young people to discover the beauty of the Spirit who touches us in the interior silence that the Taizé experience helps to create.
Taizé prayer group reflecting on the word of God through chant and meditation
“The exchange with God becomes real for us in prayer: by his Holy Spirit, God comes to dwell within us. By his word and by the Sacraments, Christ gives himself to us. In return, we can surrender everything to him.”
(Brother Alois, Letter from Cochabamba).
Candlelight & Chant create a beautiful atmosphere conducive to deep prayer and meditation.
For information on St. Padre Pio devotions, contact: John Cooke at 087/4178291
Prayer to St. Padre Pio
Beloved Padre Pio, today I come to add my prayer to the thousands of prayers offered to you every day by those who love and venerate you.
They ask for cures and healings, earthly and spiritual blessings, and peace for body and mind.
And because of your friendship with the Lord, he heals those you ask to be healed, and forgive those you forgive.
Through your visible wounds of the Cross, which you bore for 50 years, you were chosen in our time to glorify the crucified Jesus. Because the Cross has been replaced by other symbols, please help us to bring it back in our midst, for we acknowledge it is the only true sign of salvation.
As we lovingly recall the wounds that pierced your hands, feet and side, we not only remember the blood you shed in pain, but your smile, and the invisible halo of sweet smelling flowers that surrounded your presence, the perfume of sanctity.
Padre Pio, may the healings of the sick become the testimony that the Lord has invited you to join the holy company of Saints.
In your kindness, please help me with my own special request: (mention here your petition, and make the sign of the Cross).
Bless me and my loved ones. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Relic of St. Padre Pio utilised at devotions in Charleville Parish.
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