Parish News and Events

Thursday, 8th December, is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. As well as the usual 10.00 am Mass on Thursday, there is a Vigil Mass on Wednesday, 7th December, at 6.00 pm.

The First Seniors Christmas Party since the pandemic will take place on Thursday 15th December from 2.30 pm—5.00 pm in the Parish Centre. All are welcome.

2022 has been very difficult for families coming to Crosscare needing help. For the first time in many years, they have seen a rise in the number of working families struggling with ongoing increases in the cost of living. The demands of Christmas put even more...

Attached is Archbishop Dermot Farrell’s Advent Pastoral Letter, entitled The Time Has Come. The Time Has Come Advent 2022

We are delighted to offer an Online Advent Retreat featuring a series of online reflections given in preparation for Christmas. The Retreat Giver is Donagh O’Shea OP, an Irish Dominican, currently director of the Dominican Retreat Centre in Tallaght. He has given...

We've had a book club now in St John the Baptist Parish for five years. We take on a book a month with the aim of broadening our reading habits, sometimes in the faith field and sometimes looking at the culture and times we live in and what those two elements might be...

The Parish Lectio Divina (Sacred Reading) Prayer Group meet on Thursday's  from 7.30 to 8.30 pm. We reflect together on the gospel reading for the following Sunday. Please email [email protected] for zoom link.

Thank you once again for your engagement with the Easter 2022 initial phase of the Building Hope strategic planning process in the Archdiocese. Please find attached a document from Archbishop Farrell which summarises your responses to the initial parish Building Hope...

I would like to express my sincere thanks to all who organized last Wednesday evening’s farewell event, the members of the PPC and the Finance Committee, the parish secretary, Lorraine, and many others. It was for me a most memorable and moving few hours, made all the...

A reminder that the policy statement Accompanying Families: Sacraments of Initiation Policy Dublin 2022 is available. Archbishop Farrell said: “This new Policy Statement seeks to affirm, strengthen and develop the many years of consultation about the Sacraments of...