Corpus Christi - Thursday, 7pm - Mass Procession and Benediction in Kilkenny

Trinity Sunday - Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas, atque indivisa unitas.

Blessed be the holy Trinity, and undivided Unity.

5pm. St. Patrick's Church, College Road, Kilkenny. 

Celebrant: Rev. Thomas O'Toole CC

Hendrik van Balen (1620) Sint Jacob's Chruch, Antwerp, Belgium

Below is an excerpt from the opening lines of what is referred to as the 'Athanasian Creed', recited in the Divine Office on today's feast. The link will take you to the full  creed with an explanation of its origin.

Canticum Quicumque * Symbolum Athanasium

Whosoever willeth to be saved, * before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith.
Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, * without doubt he shall perish eternally.
Now the Catholic faith is this, * that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.
Neither confounding the Persons, * nor dividing the substance.

Pentecost Sunday - Missa Cantata at 5pm

Start of Novena to the Holy Ghost

Start of the Novena to the Holy Ghost in preparation for the Feast of Pentecost

The novena to the Holy Spirit is to be considered as the chief of all novenas; it was the first celebrated, by the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin in the 'upper room', the location of the Last Supper, where they prayed and waited together between the Ascension and Pentecost. 

The gift of the Holy Spirit is merited for us through the Passion of Our Lord Himself, a fact which Jesus makes known to us when He said to His disciples that if He did not die He could not send us the Holy Ghost: 'If I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you' (John xvi. 7).

We know by faith that the Holy Ghost is the love that the Father and the Eternal Word bear one to the other; and therefore the gift of love, which the Lord infuses into our souls, and which is the greatest of all gifts, is particularly attributed to the Holy Ghost. This is said by St. Paul, 'The charity of God is poured forth in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, Who is given to us' (Rom. v. 5).

We should therefore consider, while praying the novena, the great value of divine love and desire to obtain it, especially through prayer, so that we will be made partakers of it. God has promised that those who ask for it with humility will be given it; 'Your Father from heaven will give the good Spirit to the that ask Him' (Luke xi. 13).

Prayer for the Feast of Pentecost 

O Holy Spirit, O my God, I adore Thee, and acknowledge, here in Thy divine presence, that I am nothing and can do nothing without Thee. 

Come, great Paraclete, Thou father of the poor, Thou comforter the best, fulfil the promise of our blessed Savior, Who would not leave us orphans, and come into the mind and the heart of Thy poor, unworthy creature, as Thou didst descend on the sacred day of Pentecost on the holy Mother of Jesus and on His first disciples. 

Grant that I may participate in those gifts which Thou didst communicate to them so wonderfully, and with so much mercy and generosity. 

Take from my heart whatever is not pleasing to Thee, and make of it a worthy dwelling-place for Thyself. 

Illumine my mind, that I may see and understand the things that are for my eternal good. Inflame my heart with pure love of Thee, that I may be cleansed from the dross of all inordinate attachments, and that my whole life may be hidden with Jesus in God. 

Strengthen my will, that I may be made comformable to Thy divine will, and be guided by Thy holy inspirations. 

Aid me by Thy grace to practice the divine lessons of humility, poverty, obedience, and contempt of the world, which Jesus taught us in His mortal life.

Oh, rend the heavens, and come down, consoling Spirit! that inspired and encouraged by Thee, I may faithfully comply with the duties of my state, carry my daily cross most patiently, and endeavor to accomplish the divine will with the utmost perfection. Spirit of love! Spirit of purity! Spirit of peace! Sanctify my soul more and more, and give me that heavenly peace which the world cannot give. 

Bless our Holy Father the Pope, bless the Church, bless our bishops, our priests, all Religious Orders, and all the faithful, that they may be filled with the spirit of Christ and labor earnestly for the spread of His kingdom.

O Holy Spirit, Thou Giver of every good and perfect gift, grant me, I beseech Thee, the intentions of this novena. May Thy will be done in me and through me. Mayest Thou be praised and glorified forevermore!

Amen.

13th of May, Ascension Thursday, Low Mass at 7pm, St. Patrick's, Kilkenny

Ascendit Deus in iubilatione, alleluia! 

Et Dominus in  voce tubae, alleluia!

'The Ascension' by Benjamin West PRA, 1801.

God ascends amid shouts of triumph, alleluia! 

And the Lord with the sound of trumpets, alleluia!

Mass at St. Patrick's Church, Kilkenny 13th May (this Thursday) Low Mass at 7pm.

Solemn High Mass in Cork for the Ascension

Thursday 13th of May - Solemn Mass in Cork

The Solemn High Mass for the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord will be celebrated in Sts. Peter and Paul’s Church, Cork city, on 13 May 2010 at 7.30 pm.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palastrina’s Missa Brevis will be sung.

Mass times for Ascension, Pentecost and Corpus Christi

A note on the Masses for the next three Feasts:

13th May (this Thursday, the Ascension) Low Mass at 7pm.

23rd May, Pentecost Sunday, Sung Mass at 5pm.

3rd of June, Corpus Christi (which is a Thursday) Mass at 7pm, followed by a short procession and Benediction.

All Masses are at St. Patrick's, College Rd. Kilkenny.

Details for Fota III International Liturgical Conference on Sacred Music to download

St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy

Third International Liturgy Conference

“Psallite sapienter: Benedict XVI on Sacred Music”

Imperial Hotel, South Mall, Cork

10-12 July 2010

Conference Programme can be downloaded here!

Registration form can be downloaded here!


"Renewal Can Only Happen in the Wake of the Great Tradition of the Past"

 Address Benedict XVI gave on sacred music, delivered in the Sistine Chapel on June 24, 2006