Society of St. Oliver Plunkett

09 December 2017

Low Mass: 10th December - Second Sunday of Advent

   Second Sunday of Advent
Sunday 10th December at 5pm
   St. Patrick's Church,
   College Rd., Kilkenny
Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

01 December 2017

8th December - Annual Candlelight Rosary Procession

The 44th Annual Candlelight Rosary Procession organised by the Fatima Apostolate Kilkenny will leave the Parade, Kilkenny City at 8pm on Friday 8th December. The procession will proceed through the streets of the city to the Black Abbey for Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Enrolments in the Brown Scapular will also take place after Benediction. Candles will be available at the Parade before the procession begins. All are invited and encouraged to participate in this procession in honour of Our Blessed Mother.

Ave Maria, gratia plena!

26 November 2017

Low Mass: 26th November - 24th Sunday after Pentecost

Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday 26th November at 5pm
St. Patrick's Church,
College Rd., Kilkenny
Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

The Lord saith: I think thoughts of peace,
and not of affliction: you shall call upon me,
and I will hear you:
and I will bring back your captivity from all places.

11 November 2017

Low Mass: 12th November - Twenty Third Sunday after Pentecost

Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday 12th November at 5pm
St. Patrick's Church,
College Rd., Kilkenny
Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

The Lord saith: I think thoughts of peace,
and not of affliction: you shall call upon me,
and I will hear you:
and I will bring back your captivity from all places.

28 October 2017

Low Mass: 29th October Feast of Christ the King

Feast of Christ the King
Sunday 29th October at 5pm
St. Patrick's Church,
College Rd., Kilkenny
Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Hail Redeemer, King Divine!

23 September 2017

Low Mass: 24th September - Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

           Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
                            Sunday 24th September at 5pm
                                  St. Patrick's Church,
                                College Rd., Kilkenny
                    Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for I have cried to thee all the day;
for thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild,
and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

16 September 2017

Low Mass: 17th September - Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday 17th September at 5pm
St. Patrick's Church,
College Rd., Kilkenny
Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Bow down thine ear, O Lord; to me, and hear me:

save thy servant, O my God, that hopeth in thee:

have mercy on me, O Lord,

for I have cried to thee all the day.

09 September 2017

Low Mass: 10th September - Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

                Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
                          Sunday 10th September at 5pm
                                    St. Patrick's Church,
                                  College Rd., Kilkenny
                      Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Behold, O God, our protector,
and look on the face of thy Christ:,
for better is one day, in thy courts above thousands.

03 September 2017

3rd September - Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sunday 3rd September at 5pm
St. Patrick's Church,
College Rd., Kilkenny
Rosary before Holy Mass at 4.30pm

Arise go thy way;

for thy faith hath made thee whole.

17 August 2017

High Mass: 20th August - Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

           Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
           HIGH MASS WITH GREGORIAN CHANT
                            Sunday 20th August at 5pm
                                   St. Patrick's Church,
                                 College Rd., Kilkenny

Benedict XVI on the Litrugy

“The Church stands and falls with the Liturgy. When the adoration of the divine Trinity declines, when the faith no longer appears in its fullness in the Liturgy of the Church, when man’s words, his thoughts, his intentions are suffocating him, then faith will have lost the place where it is expressed and where it dwells. For that reason, the true celebration of the Sacred Liturgy is the centre of any renewal of the Church whatever.”

"The Holy Mass, celebrated in the respect of the liturgical norms and with a fitting appreciation of the richness of the signs and gestures, fosters and promotes the growth of Eucharistic faith. In the Eucharistic celebration we do not invent something, but we enter into a reality that precedes us, more than that, which embraces heaven and earth and, hence, also the past, the future and the present."

"This universal openness, this encounter with all the sons and daughters of God is the grandeur of the Eucharist: we go to meet the reality of God present in the body and blood of the Risen One among us. Hence, the liturgical prescriptions dictated by the Church are not external things, but express concretely this reality of the revelation of the body and blood of Christ and thus the prayer reveals the faith according to the ancient principle 'lex orandi – lex credendi."

"And because of this we can say "the best catechesis on the Eucharist is the Eucharist itself well celebrated" (Benedict XVI, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Sacramentum Caritatis," No. 64).
"It is necessary that in the liturgy the transcendent dimension emerge with clarity, that of the mystery, of the encounter with the Divine, which also illumines and elevates the "horizontal," that is the bond of communion and of solidarity that exists between all those who belong to the Church."

"In fact, when the latter prevails, the beauty, profundity and importance of the mystery celebrated is fully understood. Dear brothers in the priesthood, to you the bishop has entrusted, on the day of your priestly Ordination, the task to preside over the Eucharist. Always have at heart the exercise of this mission: celebrate the divine mysteries with intense interior participation, so that the men and women of our City can be sanctified, put into contact with God, absolute truth and eternal love."