Holy Week Schedule

Tenebræ

Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday at 10am

The public singing of part of the Divine Office, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings of Holy Week, anticipating Matins and Lauds of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. A custom that went back centuries, it acquired the name because of the mourning ritual surrounding the ceremony, which included a triangular stand with fifteen candles. These were put out one by one until, after the last candle was extinguished, a prayer was said in darkness, one candle was lighted, and the assembly dispersed in silence.

Holy Thursday

Mass of the Last Supper available on-line at 8pm

Good Friday

Stations of the Cross at 12 noon – available on-line

The Lord’s Passion 3pm – available on-line

Veneration of the Cross, open the public 4-7pm

Holy Saturday

Vigil Mass is on-line from Cork’s Cathedral, click on: https://www.corkcathedral.ie/live-stream/

Bishop Barron’s Lenten Reflections

Week Five: Loving an Enemy This Lent
Forgiveness. It can be such a hard thing to give and to receive. It can be easy to forgive the people we love, the people we are close to. But what about our enemies? That task can seem insurmountable. Then again, so is...
Week Four: Christ in the Desert
You’ve heard it before and you will hear it again. It comes every lent, the reading about Christ in the desert. The Devil tempts Christ to move off the path and disobey God. We all know temptation, but it can be hard to see...
Week Six: The Power of the Cross
Pain. It is a feeling that everyone knows. We have all experienced it differently to varying degrees and at different points in our lives. It’s not something you can escape. Why is it that the Church focuses on a man in the...
Week Three: Having a "Personal Relationship" with Jesus
When we think of standing in line waiting to tell the priest everything bad we have done, it can be tempting to justify and rationalize our actions. For a large number of people, confession is a nerve-racking, anxiety-inducing...
Week Five: Loving an Enemy This Lent
Forgiveness. It can be such a hard thing to give and to receive. It can be easy to forgive the people we love, the people we are close to. But what about our enemies? That task can seem insurmountable. Then again, so is...
Week Two: Is Being Good Enough?
As we enter into the liturgical season of lent, the church around us changes. Songs become more somber, the priest and deacons wear different colored robes, and Mass parts change. But how does this help us enter into Lent?...