Religious

Graduation Mass – Class of 2022

Graduation Mass A Celebration of the Class 2022 Sunday, 22nd May 2022 At Sunday’s Graduation Mass, Chief Celebrant Fr. Cormac O’Brolchain gave yet another superb homily in which he reminded the boys that they were loved by many and far more valuable than any points they may achieve in the Leaving Cert. In the Gospel [...]

Go Ye Afar, An African Memoir by Eileen Keane

Go Ye Afar An African Memoir by Sr Dr Eileen Keane PURCHASE Bishop Joseph Shanahan, an Irish Holy Ghost/Spiritan priest from Co Tipperary, founded the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary in 1924 to assist with the mission in southern Nigeria. One of the Missionary Sisters, Sr Dr Eileen Keane has written her memoir, entitled [...]

Coming Together Mass – The Class of 2020

Coming Together Mass – The Class of 2020 Sunday, 24th April 2022 And finally… it is unusual to start a notice in such a way but finally the class of 2020 and their parents gathered in the Jubilee Hall last Sunday, 24th April, formally, in thanksgiving for their time at Blackrock and for their wellbeing [...]

Catholic Schools Week Review 2022

Catholic Schools Living Life to the Full Sunday, 23rd January - Sunday, 30th January 2022 Catholic Schools week took place between the 23rd and 30th of January. This year’s theme was, “Catholic Schools: Living Life to the Full”. As a Catholic school we are blessed to be able to have mass each morning @ 8.15. [...]

5th Year Family Mass, Jan 2022

5th Year Family Mass Sunday, 30th January 2022 It was great to be back! – a full chapel, choir in full voice for the first time in two years. I had almost forgotten how powerful these occasions are. Chief celebrant Fr. Tom Nash in an excellent homily talked about the sacrament of marriage as a [...]

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Mass 2022

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Friday, 28th January 2022 At the conclusion of Catholic Schools Week on Friday 28th January, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament took place in the College Chapel between 8.30am and 10.50am. Over 240 colleagues and boys from across the various year groups attended – we appreciate the support of all the [...]

3rd Year Family Mass, Nov 2021

3rd Year Family Mass Sunday, 7th November 2021 Chief Celebrant Fr. Cormac O’Brolchain, in an excellent homily, urged the boys to be the best they can be and to think and act in a caring and loving way. He referenced the many ways in which the class of 2025 contribute to our school community. It [...]

Mental Health Awareness Day 2021

Mental Health Awareness Day Thursday, 21st October 2021 This year’s Mental Health Awareness Day took on a new format with a short exercise/presentation during each period. The focus was on kindness and reaching out to others. The message was constant throughout the day, in the classroom and on the corridors that ‘one kind act can [...]

2nd Year Family Mass, Oct 2021

2nd Year Family Mass Sunday, 17th October 2021 “Lord I will prepare missionaries for you and then you can put them to work” Claude Poullart des Places. Celebrant Fr. Cormac O’Brolchain urged us to take time for God and encouraged us to put time aside for prayer in the Morning, Evening and Night. “We are [...]

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Blessed Sacrament Mass Friday, 15th October 2021 On Friday 15th October, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament took place in the College Chapel. Over 100 boys across the various year groups attended as well as several hundred online. We thank Fr Paddy Dundon CSSp, our College Sacristan Ms Irene Dunne, Ms Crimmins and Mr Madden for [...]
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