Cathedral News

We are delighted to announce that the Cathedral Choir is returning to sing once more at the 10:30am mass from Sunday 7 November.

When people asked Jesus questions, it was often with a view to trapping him into saying something that would be incriminating. The scribe who came in today’s gospel was different.

By long tradition, plenary indulgences for the souls of the departed may be gained in November.

On 2 November each year we remember all those "who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection" (eucharistic prayer II).

All Saints Day is a solemnity in the church year, and in Ireland is a holyday of obligation.

A short prayer service on Thursday 28 October at 7:30pm, marking the start of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, and guided by Laudato Si'.

The most profoundly influential pope of recent times, Pope St John XIII is remembered on 11 October.

The story of the blind beggar cured by Jesus is related in all the synoptic gospels, but only Mark gives us his name. This would suggest that Bartimaeus was a well-known figure on the road.

The Mass of Chrism takes place in the Cathedral on Thursday 21 October 2021 at 7:00pm.

A recent television series, about the Boleyn family, showed how Queen Anne’s father, Thomas, clawed his way up through the court of Henry VIII, making an advantageous marriage and connecting with t