The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is on this Monday 8th December 2025. It is a Holy Day of obligation.
Mass times:
10 am in St Joseph’s Church, Kinvara;
12 noon in St Colman’s Church, Kinvara
7pm in St. Colman’s Church, Ballinderreen.
‘The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin.’
– Pope Pius IX, Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus, 8 December 1854.