Denomination: Roman Catholic
Revision of weekend Mass Times in Monkstown
Dear Parishioners,
As many of you will know, before Fr. Coady left the Parish in September, we as a Parish Pastoral Council had been looking at the number of Sunday Masses in our parish. This was accelerated when in the past 18 months; Fr. Coady was left on his own to cover all of the masses where up to that time he had been blessed with the tremendous support of Fr. Dowling and Canon O’Moore.
With Fr. Kevin’s arrival, he thought it best to give it time before any more change was undertaken and also to give him a chance to gauge the needs of our Parish. In the months since Fr. Kevin’s arrival, we have looked at the attendance numbers over the past couple of years and have seen that the numbers attending Mass on any given weekend rarely exceeds five hundred, spread over four masses. On some Sundays there have been as few as fifty people at some of the Masses.
Given that we have only one priest and a lack of supply priests, but more importantly the lack of need for four Masses, a review has taken place. If we were to look at numbers attending then we would have just two Masses, one on Saturday Evening and one on Sunday morning, but we the PPC and Fr. Kevin believe that would be a drastic move so we plan to introduce the following changes on the First Sunday of Lent 2019 which falls on the weekend of the 9th/10th of March 2019:
Saturday
6pm - Vigil Mass (Folk Group)
Sunday
10 am – Family Mass (Children’s Choir)
11.30 am – Mass with Senior Choir
The revised Mass times have been made to accommodate the many needs of our parish while also providing different times than our neighbouring Holy Family Parish (Kill of the Grange) whose Sunday morning masses are at: 9am, 10.30am, 12pm. We would love to see three thriving Masses over Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
We appreciate that change is hard and that not all will be in favour of our decision, but unfortunately it is simply not possible to continue with the current schedule. We pray for your understanding and look forward to continuing the work of building the Christian Community here in St. Patrick’s, Monkstown.
The Parish Pastoral Council, Fr. Kevin, and Deacon Eric
Dear Parishioners,
As many of you will know, before Fr. Coady left the Parish in September, we as a Parish Pastoral Council had been looking at the number of Sunday Masses in our parish. This was accelerated when in the past 18 months; Fr. Coady was left on his own to cover all of the masses where up to that time he had been blessed with the tremendous support of Fr. Dowling and Canon O’Moore.
With Fr. Kevin’s arrival, he thought it best to give it time before any more change was undertaken and also to give him a chance to gauge the needs of our Parish. In the months since Fr. Kevin’s arrival, we have looked at the attendance numbers over the past couple of years and have seen that the numbers attending Mass on any given weekend rarely exceeds five hundred, spread over four masses. On some Sundays there have been as few as fifty people at some of the Masses.
Given that we have only one priest and a lack of supply priests, but more importantly the lack of need for four Masses, a review has taken place. If we were to look at numbers attending then we would have just two Masses, one on Saturday Evening and one on Sunday morning, but we the PPC and Fr. Kevin believe that would be a drastic move so we plan to introduce the following changes on the First Sunday of Lent 2019 which falls on the weekend of the 9th/10th of March 2019:
Saturday
6pm - Vigil Mass (Folk Group)
Sunday
10 am – Family Mass (Children’s Choir)
11.30 am – Mass with Senior Choir
The revised Mass times have been made to accommodate the many needs of our parish while also providing different times than our neighbouring Holy Family Parish (Kill of the Grange) whose Sunday morning masses are at: 9am, 10.30am, 12pm. We would love to see three thriving Masses over Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
We appreciate that change is hard and that not all will be in favour of our decision, but unfortunately it is simply not possible to continue with the current schedule. We pray for your understanding and look forward to continuing the work of building the Christian Community here in St. Patrick’s, Monkstown.
The Parish Pastoral Council, Fr. Kevin, and Deacon Eric
