Notices

Our Lady of the Rosary Church – 50 years of divine worship.

This Sunday mark the 50th anniversary of the official opening of our church here in Newmarket on Fergus. On Sunday 2nd May 1971 Bishop Michael Harty blessed and dedicated the new church to the most Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary.  It was built at a cost of £120,000 and was the first church in…


First Holy Communion and Confirmation Update

Pending advice from NEPHED we hope in the near future it will be deemed safe and appropriate to have congregations present with the suitable guidelines.

However, we have not yet received a date for reopening.

Some dioceses have asked schools not to organise anything before the end of June.  The logic behind this is twofold…


Vocations Sunday

This Sunday is Vocations Sunday – a day of Prayer for Vocations. The purpose of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations is to publicly fulfill the Lord’s instruction to, “Pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers into his harvest” (Mt 9:38; Lk 10:2). Whilst the church recognises that everyone receives a vocation from…


The Sacristans Spring/ Summer Collection

The Sacristans Spring/ Summer Collection is generally taken up at masses at this time of year. Although services are operating online the sacristan continues with her work daily. If…


Holy Week and Easter

Holy Week and Easter Services will be live streamed from Our Lady of the Rosary Church and can be viewed via webcam or you can tune in to the radio on 97.9fm.
Thurs 1st Apr  7.30pm…

NOTICE FOR CONFIRMATION FAMILIES

There will be a Webinar for the Parents and Godparents of Confirmation Children and also the Confirmation children on this Wednesday, March 24th at 7.00 pm. In order to join you need to register using the link here

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SHRbJhzmQ8y3O0mSPFpTOQ


NOTICE FOR FIRST HOLY COMMUNION FAMILIES

There will be a Webinar for the Parents of First Holy Communion children on this Tuesday, March 23rd at 7.00 pm. In order to join you need to register using the link here


WEBINAR FOR THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE

Fr Kieran O’Mahony OSA will be the principal speaker at a Webinar hosted by the Diocese of Killaloe on the Scriptural background of Holy Week and Easter which we are about to celebrate. The webinar will be of interest to anybody involved in parish or pastoral life in parish or diocese. It will commence at…


Bishop Fintan Monahan expresses concern over cemetery and funeral gatherings.

In conversations with priests and people around the Diocese of Killaloe in recent weeks many have expressed their serious health and safety concerns to me regarding the number of people gathering after funeral ceremonies in church and also at burials in cemeteries. Whilst it is such a positive and deeply ingrained aspect of our culture…


Prayers for Mothers

Loving God,

we thank you for the love of the mothers you have given us,
whose love is so precious that it can never be measured,
whose patience seems to have no end.
May we see your loving hand behind them and guiding them.
We pray for those mothers,
who fear they will run out…