Celtic Connections: Fr. John Walsh on the Rosary

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EWTN’s Celtic Connections host Kathy Sinnott had Fr John Walsh O.P. as guest on the radio program last summer.

Fr John Walsh O.P. of the Irish Dominicans shares an encouraging message on the Holy Rosary. Inspired by generations of Irish who have prayed the rosary for centuries, Fr John encourages us to renew our commitment to praying the rosary for our conversion, our loved ones and for the world. Fr John Walsh is the promoter of the Rosary Apostolate and Confraternity in Ireland.

This message was given in Ballinasloe, Galway, Ireland at a conference hosted by The Institute of Marian Studies with the World Apostolate of Fatima Ireland.

To listen to the recording, please visit the EWTN website.

Activities in Dundalk

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El clasico, Dundalk style, a charity football event was held in the Friary field on Sat 4th November. The Dominican select XI, captained by former Man Utd and Norwich player Fr Philip Mulryne OP, took on the local team St Dominic’s and their select XI, captained by Liam Burns. Afterwards it was off to the Friary Church for the opening of the Novena, preached by Fr Philip who was accompanied at Mass by the new Friary choir made up of, mostly, members of the Friary Youth Club.

Twenty-four hours later people came together in the Dominican hall – next to the Church – to hear a number of speakers including Fr Philip, to launch a new course to be run by the Friary Introduction to Christianity.

All in all it was a busy, but fun week-end, in the Friary.

St. Martin de Porres Novenas

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St. Martin de Porres is one of those Dominican Saints who enjoys a great popularity in Ireland. The Feast Day of St. Martin is the 3rd of November, and in honour of St. Martin many of our Dominican Priories have Novenas, Weeks of Prayer or Triduums in the coming two weeks. Please check our event calendar or with your local Dominican Church to join in prayer in honour of St. Martin and ask him to intercede for our needs.

St. Martin, please pray for us!

Vocations Icon

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Last month the Vocations Icon, an Icon of St. Dominic, started a new tour of the Irish Province in Newbridge College in Newbridge to encourage prayer for vocations to the Dominican Order, and specifically the Irish Province. The Icon moved to St. Malachy’s in Dundalk last weekend, the 21st and 22nd and of October. The icon will remain in Dundalk for about four weeks before it will continue its journey to the next priory.

Please keep supporting us and pray for vocations.

Lord Jesus,
as once you called Saint Dominic to preach the Gospel,
so now, through the intercession of Our Blessed Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and patroness of the Order,
we ask you to send new preachers into your harvest.

Give them the graces necessary to preach with wisdom and courage.
May they be witnesses to your life, death and resurrection, bringing the light of the true faith into the darkness of people’s lives.
You who live and reign for ever and ever.

Amen

 

Dominican Pilgrimage to Knock

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isyear the National Dominican Pilgrimage to Knock took place on Sunday the 8th of October. Each year on the second Sunday of October all branches of the Dominican Family travel to the Shrine and lead the liturgical celebrations. As always pilgrims travelled from all the various Dominicans foundations throughout the island of Ireland. Especially noted were the youth coming from the Friary Youth Club in Dundalk and the prefects from Newbridge College.

The official program began at 14:30 with the Anointing of the Sick, followed by Mass at 15:00. After the Mass there was Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and the blessing of the sick followed by the Rosary. Knock is the National Marian Shrine of Ireland. On the 21st August, 1879, fifteen people from the village of Knock witnessed an Apparition of Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. John the Evangelist, a Lamb and cross on an altar at the gable wall of the Parish Church. The witnesses while reciting the Rosary, watched the Apparition in the pouring rain for two hours. Although they themselves were saturated not a single drop of rain fell on the gable or the apparition.

Please find below a few pictures.

Praying for Vocations with the Vocations Icon

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Ultimately the call to religious life is a call by God. In order to hear this call an attentive openness to the presence of God and his direction in ones life is fundamental. The call to prayer and communion is universal. Subsequent it is only within the close relationship with God that can develop through prayer and communion that a call to give oneself in the way of the religious life is normally perceived.

But while the openness and dedication to prayer of the individual is important, it is crucial to pray for vocations too. Jesus himself said “to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send labourers into his harvest” (cf. Mat 9:38/Luke 10:2). That prayer for vocations has a profound effect is clear from the extraordinary amount of vocations after the year dedicated to prayer for vocations. The Irish Province of the Dominicans itself had thirteen novices that year, something that hadn’t been seen for decades. There should be no doubt about the value of prayer in general, and prayer for vocations in particular!

In order to foster more prayer for vocations an Icon of St. Dominic,specially commissioned to promote prayer for vocations, has travelled around the country to encourage and promote prayer in years past. We have resumed this practice and have started with the display of the icon in the Dominican Church in Newbridge College. The icon will remain here until it will be brought next to St. Malachy’s in Dundalk on the weekend of the 22nd of October.

Please support us and keep praying for vocations.

Lord Jesus,
as once you called Saint Dominic to preach the Gospel,
so now, through the intercession of Our Blessed Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and patroness of the Order,
we ask you to send new preachers into your harvest.

Give them the graces necessary to preach with wisdom and courage.
May they be witnesses to your life, death and resurrection, bringing the light of the true faith into the darkness of people’s lives.
You who live and reign for ever and ever.

Amen

 

Monthly Newsletter

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The Irish Dominicans will start to publish a Monthly Online Newsletter.

To Monthly Newsletter will feature a summary each month of our most important post on the website as well highlight new videos and other media publications. Any upcoming events in  he Irish Province will also be included.

Please subscribe to our mailing list by following this link: http://dominicans.ie/mailing-list/

Credo Weekend

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This past weekend the Dominicans organised a Credo Retreat Weekend. The retreat is called “Credo”because it is the Latin for “I believe”. The week-end is aimed at helping young Catholics unlock the treasures of the Church’s catechism and rediscover the beauty of being Catholic. In the last weekend about 20 people gathered together to learn about their faith, discuss various topics and to share it with each other. The retreat weekend had a good balance of prayer, study and socialising.

For more of such weekend in the future, please keep an eye on our website or subscribe to our monthly newsletter.

Opening of the new Academic Year 2017-2018

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On Monday evening 18th September the new academic year 2017-18 opened with the Mass of the Holy Spirit presided over by the Regent of Studies, Fr. Joseph Dineen OP.

After the Mass Fr. Philip Mulryne OP was awarded his  STB (Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology) parchment by the Provincial, Fr. Gregory Carroll OP.  Fr. Philip completed his four years of theological studies in the Studium in Dublin which  is affiliated to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (The Angelicum) in Rome.

Solemn profession of Sr. Rose Miriam Collins OP

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On Saturday  September 16th there was a special celebration in the Limerick Dominican Church to mark the solemn profession of Sr. Rose Miriam Collins OP. Sr. Rose Miriam took her perpetual vows on July 25 with 12 others of her  class in the mother house of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville.

Bishop Leahy of Limerick was the main celebrant of the Holy Mass. He was joined by a number of local Limerick diocesan priests together with a number of priests and brothers of the Irish Dominican Province. After the Mass the congregation were invited to join the sisters for tea and sandwiches.