Christmas Midnight Mass from St James Church, Grange, Cooley, Co Louth

The Most Rev Eamon Martin, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, celebrates Mass to ring in Christmas at the Church of St James in Grange, Co. Louth with PP, Fr Malachy Conlon, and Redemptorist hermit, Fr John.

Courtesy RTÉ

RTÉ Player: https://www.rte.ie/player/series/midnight-mass/SI0000002976?epguid=IP000067732

There are a few adverts at the start. Note how the parishioners highlighted homelessness from the first day of Advent through to Christmas Eve…and a focus on kindness among the pupils in Monksland National School.

Parish website: https://www.cooleyparish.ie/

*********************

Link to Midnight Mass from St Peter’s Basilica, Rome with Pope Francis:

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/events/event.dir.html/content/vaticanevents/en/2021/12/24/messa-natale.html

Booklet for the Celebration (with relevant English translation from page 14):

https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/libretti/2021/20211224-libretto-natale-notte.pdf

 

Similar Posts

To Keep People safe in Church

Blog
0 Comments

Two articles that remind us of the huge responsibility there is on all church members to ensure they are not risking life or health when re-opening after lockdowns.

An Irish Times story about a Dublin church being forced to close after ignoring regulations also covers the comment by Archbishop Martin of Dublin about the need to respect the sacrifices made by so many.
“The current public health policy has required sacrifice on the part of all of us. People have accepted that. I think of those who have had to bury a loved one without the normal process of grieving, with funeral rites limited to a bare minimum. We must show respect for those whose sacrifice has been greatest.
Public health policy will only work when its proposals and sequencing are fully respected by all. There is no room for self-dispensation from or self-interpretation of the norms. Jumping the queue by individuals or communities puts everyone at risk”
In another article

Michael J. O’Loughlin of americamagazine.org interviews a man we have become familiar with on our TV news programmes, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
““There have been situations in multiple countries where the source of the cluster was a church service,” he said. “That’s the reason why we gotta be so careful about that.”
As a result, even if churches are open, the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions should consider staying home, “because they really are at high risk,” he said. “It would be so tragic for someone who just comes to a place of worship, gets sick themselves, or gets infected and brings it home to an elderly person who might have a compromising comorbidity, and the person gets seriously ill and dies.”

One Comment

  1. Fr Lee Cahill says:

    Christmas Midnight Mass…

    What an authentic Christmas celebration we got from magical Cooley on Chrismtas Eve. Music, dancing, bilingual, singing… very sensitively led by Archbishop Martin… more than enhanced the beauty and simplicity of the Nativity. What an apt introduction to the Eucharistic celebration … a parish community in sync with the homeless… a beautiful and humble little church… (While not belittling the perhaps nobility of Nativity celebrations in basilicas and cathedrals, the age, size and simplicity of St James’s chapel enhanced the authenticity of this year’s TV presentation…kudos to RTÉ, too). Well done, people of God in Cooley.

    Reply

Join the Discussion

Keep the following in mind when writing a comment

  • Your comment must include your full name, and email. (email will not be published). You may be contacted by email, and it is possible you might be requested to supply your postal address to verify your identity.
  • Be respectful. Do not attack the writer. Take on the idea, not the messenger. Comments containing vulgarities, personalised insults, slanders or accusations shall be deleted.
  • Keep to the point. Deliberate digressions don't aid the discussion.
  • Including multiple links or coding in your comment will increase the chances of it being automati cally marked as spam.
  • Posts that are merely links to other sites or lengthy quotes may not be published.
  • Brevity. Like homilies keep you comments as short as possible; continued repetitions of a point over various threads will not be published.
  • The decision to publish or not publish a comment is made by the site editor. It will not be possible to reply individually to those whose comments are not published.