This beautiful prayer was sent to us by Fr Coriolan Muresan, Chaplain to the Greek -Romanian Catholic Community who gather in St Michan’s Church, Halston Street for weekly mass. Byzantine Catholic Prayer for the Deceased God of the spirits and of all flesh, who have trampled death and annihilated the devil and given life to your…
This story is covered in today’s (30 October 2109) edition of The Irish Times Newspaper. An Post plan to donate 18,000 GB of data across 2,000 SIMS cards the article reports. These cards will be distributed through a number of homeless charities. Pictured is Brother Seán Donohoe of the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People…
In a meeting with over 70 Friars from the Italian Province of the Marches, Pope Francis spoke of the Capuchin charism in terms of vocations, poverty, forgiveness, and evangelization. He called on the Friars to bring about initiatives that allow young people encounter the life changing example of St Francis of Assisi. You can read…
The Irish Capuchin Friars travelled to South Korea in 1986 to establish the first Capuchin foundation there at the invitation of Cardinal Kim. This fantastic article published on our international website highlights the journey since then… https://www.ofmcap.org/en/notizie/altre-notizie/item/3474-the-capuchin-custody-of-korea
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May he show his face to you and be merciful to you, May he turn his countenance to you and give you peace. May the Lord bless you. Amen
[Pictured are Capuchin Friars at our Mission in Zambia] Today is the feast of St Therese of Lisieux, co-patron of missions along with St Francis Xavier. Pope Francis has declared October 2019 to be a month of prayer, reflextion and action focused on mission and our shared baptismal call to bring the Good News…
Day 9 Thought for the day At the heart of the life of Francis, at the centre of his sanctity, is his desire to become one with Christ in Love. Through his meditation upon the humility of the Incarnation and the emptying of self in love that it implies in the Crib, the Cross…
St Michan’s Parish, Halston Street and St Mary of the Angel’s Church Street, Dublin 7 have a number of events planned to celebrate St Francis of Assisi this October. Events include the Transitus of St Francis (Hosted in St Mary of the Angel’s, Church Street by the Capuchin Friars), blessing of animals (Outside the Parish…
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