Have you booked your seat yet?
Places are still available and you are invited to attend this day of pilgrimage by the Dublin Diocese. Fr. Seán Canon Smith is accompanying our group. Cost is €50 which includes a morning break and early evening dinner. Please contact the office early next week to book your place.
Bookings are also welcome by phone. We look forward to your presence on this Pilgrimage.
Archbishop Dermot Farrell will lead the Annual Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock on Saturday, April 27. Fr. Seán Canon Smith is accompanying the Greystones and Kilquade Pastoral Area group.
KNOCK PILGRIMAGE INVITATION
Message from Deacon Gerard Reilly, Pilgrimage Director:
I am writing to invite your Parish or Partnership to send a bus to Knock for our annual Diocesan Pilgrimage on Saturday, April 27. See attached programme and poster (also available here and here).
The pilgrimage has grown in numbers each year since it was re-launched in 2018 and there is strong interest from across the Archdiocese. Last year, we had a great attendance but are aware that there are parishes or partnerships that have not participated in recent years. In 2024, we are celebrating 145 years since the apparitions in 1879 and this presents an ideal opportunity to invite parishioners to go.
The idea of going on pilgrimage goes back hundreds of years in the Church. In the Middle Ages, crusaders went to Jerusalem try to liberate the Holy City. One of the good things about a pilgrimage is that is gives us an opportunity to step out of our daily lives and try to gain some fresh perspectives on the challenges that we face and to try to learn a bit more about ourselves. It’s also a good opportunity to reflect on our faults and failings, as we all have them, and to ask Our Lady to pray to her son Jesus to help us to overcome them.
Let us pray for the grace to be inspired as we go on pilgrimage to Knock this year, in the words of St Ignatius of Loyola, “to serve God better in the future”.
Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock – Saturday April 27th 2024 Programme
Theme: “Whatever you ask for in my name, I will do it.”
| 11:00am | Tea & Coffee available in St John’s Rest & Care as pilgrims arrive. | ||
| 12.00pm | Welcome and introduction to workshops | ||
| 12:05pm | Workshops – St John’s Rest & Care Centre | ||
| Nurturing Parish Volunteers – Serving in a Fragile World
Presenter: Brian Grogan S.J.
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Laudato Si Update
What it means for our parishes
Presenter: To be confirmed
Outdoor Stations of the Cross
Facilitator: Deacon Declan Colgan, Archdiocese of Dublin
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Prayerful Preparation for the Sacrament of Reconciliation based on the Gospel of the Woman at the Well
Facilitators: Beatrice Reilly & Cathy Burke, Archdiocese of Dublin
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| 1:00pm | Pilgrimage Picnic in St John’s with tea and coffee available for a small donation. Pilgrims are asked to bring their own packed lunch or avail of local restaurants and cafes | ||
| 1:45pm | Opportunity for Sacrament of Reconciliation, quiet time or to pray the Rosary | ||
| 3.00pm | Pilgrimage Mass including Sacrament of the Sick
Chief Celebrant: Archbishop Dermot Farrell |
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| 4.30pm | Departure | ||
