THE relics of St Bernadette will be brought to a church in Tralee next week.
Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church will host the relics over Friday/Saturday, September 13/14. In 1858, the young girl, Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, said she experienced multiple apparitions of the Virgin Mary. After a canonical investigation, Soubirous’s reports were declared worthy of belief.
Bernadette died in 1879 and was later canonized in 1933. Her relics will journey on pilgrimage to Ireland for the very first time, visiting every diocese in the country from September 4th to November 5th this year.
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This will provide an opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds to experience the special gifts and charisms of Lourdes in their diocese.
The relics will be brought to St Brendan’s Church on Friday September 13th at 12 noon. At 3pm there will be the Stations of the Cross. At 6.30pm there will be a Mass and at 8.30pm the Rosary and Veneration concludes.
On Saturday, there will be Mass at 9.30am, a Mass for the sick with Sacrament of Anointing at 12 noon and Rosary at 4pm. Vigil Mass will be celebrated at 6.30pm and a Torchlight procession and Veneration take place at 9pm.
A SPECIAL service will take place in Tralee later this month in memory of those who have died during the Covid pandemic.
Radio Kerry with the Horizons team will broadcast the ‘Kerry Remembers’ service at 9am on Sunday morning, September 26, in Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church Tralee.
This multi denominational remembrance service marks with reverence those who have died between St. Patrick’s day 2020 and the present.
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Representatives of frontline workers, services and community groups that made this Covid time more bearable are thanked and invited to attend.
The public is invited to attend with the capacity of 500 set due to COVID regulations. If you cannot attend you can listen on Radio Kerry, or watch the service streamed from Our Lady and St. Brendans Church Tralee on www.dioceseofkerry.ie.
This event takes the place of the usual Sunday morning Horizons programme. If you would like to, you can visit the church to submit your loved one’s name and date of death for the physical Memory Tree.
There will be a basket of blank cards in St. Brendans, available. These will be placed on the Memory Tree by the team.
Alternatively you can make you own memory card/heart and place it in the basket for hanging. For those not living nearby, you can email details of your loved ones and the Horizons team will complete a card and hang it for you.
Submit by email to: horizons@radiokerry.ie You can also post information for the memory card to ‘Kerry Remembers’ at Radio Kerry, Maine Street, Tralee by next Friday.
Bríd Ní Mhóráin will be reading her new poem Aishling as part of the service. Music at Kerry Remembers will be provided by Sharon Lyons accompanied by Tony O Flaherty.
WITH the Government restrictions still in place, church services in Tralee are still being streamed live daily from St John’s Church and Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church.
Here’s the times for St John’s Church Tralee services over the coming days;
Mass: 10am. This Mass on Easter Sunday will also be broadcast live from St Brendan’s Church on Radio Kerry. The Masses are now recorded and available on the website soon after the Mass is celebrated. Click here to go to St Brendan’s Parish website
DUE to the Coronavirus crisis, the Diocese of Kerry has announced that no public Masses will be celebrated this weekend and St Patrick’s Day, as well as weekdays from Saturday until next Thursday inclusive.
Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church in Tralee will be live-streaming masses each day including; Sunday 10am; Monday 9.30am; Tuesday 10am (St Patrick’s Day); Wednesday 9.30am and Thursday 9.30am. You can click here at these timesto view the Mass.
A number of other churches around the county are live streaming their masses. For a full list and links go to the Diocese of Kerry website by clicking here.
.Fr Patsy Lynch (centre with Gerard Casey and Paul Burke at his farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
A WONDERFUL farewell get-together was held in The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday for a much loved priest, who left St Brendan’s parish last month for pastures new.
Castleisland native, Fr Patsy Lynch, was transferred from the parish to Portmagee this summer, but last night was a chance for parishioners to say a proper farewell.
“I’d like to thank the people for the time I spent in St Brendan’s Parish,” Fr Patsy told us before entering the packed function room for the celebration. “I was ordained in St Brendan’s in 1974 and I went off on the missions to Ghana. I came back to Ireland in 2005 and did a bit of work for the society before coming back to the Kerry diocese.
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Bishop Bill Murphy then appointed me to St Brendan’s, the church where I was ordained. I was there for 10 years and I’m eternally grateful to the people for my time spent there. The time with them has been an enriching and wonderful experience. I feel privileged to have been there with the people,” said Fr Patsy.
He left for Portmagee in mid-July and is looking forward to the challenge of starting again in a new parish in such a beautiful part of the county.
“I love photography, I love the landscape and I love cycling. In past summers I would have driven to Portmagee, got on a bike and cycled the roads there and all over the Skellig Ring and Valentia Island, so I know the place like the back of my hand. The people there are lovely too,” he said.
He also had great praise for St Brendan’s Parish Priest Fr Padraig Walsh and enjoyed working with him over the years. Fr Padraig said he would be missed in Tralee.
“He was ten years in the parish and a lot has happened in Ireland in those ten years,” said Fr Padraig. “Pat was ordained in 1974 so ten years out of 43 as a priest is huge amount of time spent here. He made quite an impression on people’s lives while he was here in so many different ways. It’s great that people, young and old, are coming together here tonight, from all parts of the parish, to say ‘thank you and we appreciate what you did’ to Fr Patsy.”
There were two presentations made to Fr Patsy, one by the Oakview Cemetery Committee and then by the people of the parish, which was a lovely piece of stained glass created by artist Mary J Leen. It was a great night and no more than Fr Patsy deserved after the service he has given to the community. Scroll down for photos…
At back; Mary Roche and Ciara Sheehan and in front, Joan and Norma Lenihan at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean.Danny Healy, Sr de Lourdes, Jackie McCull, Marie Williams and Pat O’Connor at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot CreanGeraldine and Jim O’Donoghue with Fr Padraig Walsh at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean.Mary O’Sullivan, Anne Kearney and Margaret Canty at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot CreanSr Dora, Sr Laboure, John Lynch, Margaret Lynch and Pat Griffin at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
Michael Quinn and Catherine Ryan at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot CreanTom Cantillon, Fr Pat Ahern, Pat and Margaret Lynch at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean.Anne Marie and PJ Herlihy, Jeremiah Greaney and Gary Moore at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot CreanFr Patsy Lynch gets a standing ovation as he enters the room at his farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean.The large crowd at Fr Patsy Lynch’s farewell get-together at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
Lorraine Counihan, Emma Healy and Catriona Walsh at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
A CROWD of about 500 people gathered in Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday evening for a special celebration to mark the 150th anniversary of Listellick National School.
Bishop Ray Browne was the chief celebrant assisted by 12 other clergymen and the Listellick choir provided an excellent musical accompaniment to the proceedings.
There were hundreds of past pupils there including Margaret Neenan who started school in 1925 and Tom Nealon who began his schooldays in 1928. They both received a special presentation to mark the occasion.
Principal Annette Dineen spoke of her immense pride to be principal at this time. She thanked all involved in the night including clergy, parents’ council, choir, pupils, the 150 committee, staff from the school and past pupils.
It was also the perfect time to launch the magnificent book detailing the history of Listellick school, compiled by a committee headed by former principal, Micheal O Cinnéide.
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“It was lovely to see such a crowd here,” said Micheál, speaking after the Mass. “This is just the start of a year of celebration for the setting up Listellick. The launching of the book was the pinnacle for me because I was heavily involved in it.”
The book has been a long time in gestation.
“The idea first surfaced in my head about ten years ago because I could see the date looming. I proposed it and followed up on it, but the real work began about 10 months ago. The hardest part for me was transcribing about 3,500 names from registers and roll books on to a computer. But we got it done,” said Micheál.
“We had a huge amount of help from past pupils and people from the area. It was just lovely. There’s great stories and loads of photographs. As they say, every picture tells a story and that’s certainly true in this case,” said Micheál.
He’s not wrong. Flicking through the book, the quality of the photos is amazing and it’s a book no past pupil should be without. You better act quick though as the 500 that were printed are likely to be gone soon.
“We don’t think that there’ll be too many after tonight, but they’ll be on sale at the school if there’s any left. It’ll be a treasured item for those who have it,” said Micheál.
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Bishop of Kerry, Ray Browne, with Listellick staff, members of the board of management, clergy and special guests at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanClíona Murphy, Alice Murphy, Noreen Kavanagh and Joseph Murphy at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanAshley Reynolds and Karen Sexton at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanDonal Healy, Eileen Reilly and Margaret O’Shea at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanJerry Fitzgerald, Brendan Fitzmaurice, Pat Fitzgerald and Nora Fitzgerald at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanParents Tommy and Emma Culloty with Liam, Sophie and Niamh at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanSusan Wrenn, Karen O’Driscoll, Rena Ruane and Anna Flynn at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanRebecca Murphy, Maura McMahon and Sharon Murphy at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanRichard Hurley and Tom Dunican at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanValerie O’Riordan, Pam McEneaney and Xavier Murray at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanPadraig Cronin with George and Martha O’Donnell at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot CreanA big group at the Listellick NS 150th anniversary celebrations at Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday night. Photo by Dermot Crean
THE relics of St Bernadette will be brought to a church in Tralee next week.
A SPECIAL service will take place in Tralee later this month in memory of those who have died during the Covid pandemic.
DUE to the Coronavirus crisis, the Diocese of Kerry has announced that no public Masses will be celebrated this weekend and St Patrick’s Day, as well as weekdays from Saturday until next Thursday inclusive.
