Yearly Archives: 2014

Audit of Redemptorist Safeguarding Practice

22 Jul 2014

The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI) is undertaking a review of the safeguarding practice of every diocese and religious order/congregation in Ireland.  As part of this process, the Redemptorists are being reviewed in July of this year.   We, the leadership team of the Irish Redemptorists, invite anyone […]

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Fr. Edward (Ned) Rocks C.Ss.R. (Deceased 20th July 2014)

22 Jul 2014

The death has occurred of Fr. Edward (Ned) Rocks (89) C.Ss.R, of the Redemptorist Community, Dundalk, Co. Louth in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda on Sunday 20th July 2014. Funeral arrangements Removal on Tuesday evening (22nd July) at 7.00pm to St Joseph’s Redemptorist Church for evening prayers. Requiem Mass on Wednesday (23rd July) at […]

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Conscience : Article by Fr. Raphael Gallagher, C.Ss.R.

10 Jul 2014

  No culture has yet been identified where the concept of conscience has not been recognised as central. The word ‘conscience’ was not always used: more common in early cultures were ‘heart’ and ‘loins’. Whatever the word used, the concept behind conscience pointed to the core of the human person. The lack of a consistent […]

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Argentinian Redemptorist’s Novena 27th June – 5th July

02 Jul 2014

Argentinian Redemptorists also celebrate the Novena of Our Lady of Perpetual Help   View the full schedule and watch live transmission of the Novena (in Spanish) here

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Fr. Adrian Egan, Limerick takes a selfie at Mass

01 Jul 2014

Limerick priest takes a selfie in mass, reaches thousands of people on Facebook A Limerick priest has used a selfie in spreading the Gospel to the masses, and thousands have seen it on Facebook. Fr Gabriel Egan took the selfie standing in the pulpit at the Redemptorist church at Mount St Alphonsus during the Solemn […]

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Novena for Blessing of the Babies and Small Children

24 Jun 2014

Novena for Blessing of the Babies and Small Children Mount Saint Alphonsus, Tuesday 15th June 2014 Click here to watch and listen to the recording  

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Clonard Novena 18-26th June

19 Jun 2014

Clonard Novena The Clonard Novena got off to a fantastic start yesterday at 6.45am in the blistering sunshine. Over 1,500 people packed into the Church, the Marquee and the Monastery Corridors to partake in one of the biggest Catholic events in the country. Celebrant of the mass, Bishop Noel Traenor, commended the people for their […]

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Triptych at the Ballinasloe Novena

10 Jun 2014

The Redemptorist Year of Missionary Vocation Celebrated today at the Ballinasloe Novena with the arrival of the specially commissioned ‘Triptych’, which was greeted with great enthusiasm by the large Novena crowd. The triptych contains the images of St. Alphonsus, Christ the Redeemer and Our Lady.   Today we pray for vocations to the Redemptorist way […]

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World War II Chaplains

09 Jun 2014

Friday  6th June 2014 marked the 70th anniversary of the D day landings. There were 8 Irish Redemptorists who served as Chaplains in World War II. Read World War 11 Reality Article dated December 1994 or see Brendan McConvery’s “The Redemptorists in Ireland 1851-2011” (p.216) for more information.

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Fr Brian Holmes reports from Mozambique

04 Jun 2014

Mission in Cuamba Fr Brian Holmes, CSsR, reports on the first Redemptorist mission in Mozambique Cuamba is a busy, dusty, colourful city in the northern province of Niassa in Mozambique. It is here that we celebrated the first Redemptorist parish mission in this country. Our Argentinean confreres, who have been in the southern part of the […]

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