October is Safeguarding Month to promote awareness of the very important area of safeguarding in Parish, at home, in schools in all areas where there’s interaction of adults with young people and vulnerable adults

Parish Safeguarding Audits

During this month the yearly Parish Self Audits are undertaken

Garda Vetting

Over the next few months, each family of Parishes will receive a list of the current vetting in place and a spread sheet that may help in keeping a record of those vetted and training attended in the parish.

Clonakilty Parish Pastoral Centre

Saturday 11 November 2023

10:00am to 12:30pm

This workshop will focus on:

• Celebrating the Sunday of the Word of God in your parish on 21st January 2024
• The dignity and significance of the Ministry of the Word within our celebration of Mass
• The structure of the Liturgy of the Word and how the bible readings are chosen and connected
• An Introduction to the Gospel of Mark in preparation for the Year of Mark (Year B) starting on the 1st Sunday of Advent.

Free of charge to participants

All are welcome

Register your interest

In recent months, work has been ongoing to convert the old shed at the rear of the Clonakilty Parish centre to accommodate a new Family of Parishes office

The office opens this week. Opening times are:

Monday to Friday
9:30am to 1:30pm

The office has been functioning behind closed doors for a time and serves the six parishes of our Family of Parishes.

The secretary is Carmel Cullinane and she will respond to people’s enquiries in-person, on the phone (023 883 5654) and by email

Activities and services at the new office includes:

• Signing of Mass Cards
• Publication of the Clonakilty Parish newsletter (deadline Thursdays 12 Noon)
• Cards printed by the Sisters at Glencairn Abbey and Divine Word Missionaries are also on sale
• Purchase of religious objects, rosaries, etc (a project of the Legion of Mary)
• Requests for Weddings and Baptisms at any of the six parishes
  (this can also be done online here...)

Baptism Requests

Marriage Requests

Bishop Fintan Gavin has announced the appointment of a Faith Development Coordinator to serve the parishes of the diocese

Lorraine Buckley will work alongside Eilís Casey, Parish Life Coordinator, and will be based at the Mission and Ministry Office located in the Cathedral Presbytery. Both will support the teams of priests and lay leaders across parishes in the Families of Parishes. Lorraine’s particular focus will be on faith development and formation for lay ministry.

Lorraine has worked both at parish and diocesan level in various areas of faith development and has been involved in parish councils and pastoral areas. She holds qualifications in business, theology (particularly in the areas of applied theology and catechetics), and counselling plus psychotherapy.

The summer timetable of Masses comes to a close at the end of August

As from Saturday 2 September Masses throughout the six parishes will revert to the previous times.

You can check weekend Mass Times using the following link

(Navigate to September to see the reverted schedule of weekend Masses)

Mass Calendar

One permanent place to access Livestream Mass

The Family of Parishes website now has a new fixed link to access livestream Mass each weekend.

In the true spirit of sharing resources a countdown to either a Saturday evening Vigil Mass or Sunday Mass is now available on the website.  This will be rotated around a different parish church each weekend.  So for example this weekend the livestream will be the Vigil Mass on Saturday evening at 7:30pm from the Sacred Heart Church, Coutmacsherry.

How to access the livestream

This is a permanent link at onefaith.ie/livestream

When the countdown reaches zero the livestream will begin. If there is no countdown the previous Mass will be available.