This Christmas, in order to fully comply with Covid-19 restrictions while yet giving as many parishioners as possible the opportunity to attend Christmas Mass, all our Masses will be celebrated in a drive-in format in the car-park of St Colman’s Church, Kinvara. Please do not get out of your car at any time before, during, or after the Mass.

Christmas Eve: Mass at 5pm, with families with younger children particularly welcome, and at 7pm.

Christmas Day: Mass at 9am and 12 noon.

Sincere thanks to MacMahon Oil who are kindly lending us a lorry container for the altar, etc, so that the Mass can be seen by everybody in the cars, and to Kinvara FM who will kindly transmit the Mass to the car radios.

Please be patient entering and leaving the carpark and follow the directions of the stewards. Please face your car up towards the Church and tune your radio to 105.9 FM.

A great advantage of this format is that families can attend, with households together in each car. It won’t be perfect, and obviously it’s not liturgically perfect, but it’s an effort to give parishioners the chance to celebrate Christ’s birth with Mass while keeping fully safe.

To give as many parishioners as possible the opportunity to attend, please don’t come on both days, and, unfortunately, we will have to ask people from other parishes not to come, as space will be limited.

The obligation to attend Mass on holy days is lifted during the pandemic, so another option will be to attend Mass on any of the twelve days of Christmas, if you prefer to attend Mass in the Church. You are also welcome to come and pray in St Joseph’s Church, Kinvara and see the crib any day.