Monthly Archives: October 2020

Service to dedicate November as a month of prayer for the dead and the bereaved

This Sunday, 1st November 2020 at 3pm, simultaneous with parishes and Cathedrals around Ireland, a special prayer service will be posted on the Ballinderreen and Kinvara Parishes Facebook page to begin the November month of prayer. It has been pre-recorded (so it might start in a different way to the live-streamed liturgies), with parts of it filmed in some of the cemeteries of Ballinderreen and Kinvara Parishes. Thank you to the parishioners who braved very bad weather to film the prayers.
To access the Facebook page, click here.
Bishop Brendan Kelly has written a pastoral letter to mark this month of November. You can read it here: https://www.galwaydiocese.ie/…/pastoral-message…

First Anniversary of Fr Tony Minniter

The picture shows Fr Tony with Pope Saint John Paul II after the Pope ordained him to the priesthood in St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, on 26th May 1991.

The 10.30am Mass on Sunday, 1st November 2020 (Solemnity of All Saints) will be offered for Fr Tony Minniter, former Parish Priest of Ballinderreen, as his first anniversary Mass. The Mass will be without a congregation due to the Covid-19 restrictions, but will be live-streamed on the Facebook page. To access it, click here.

Mass intentions for the week from 31st October 2020

Masses are online only during the Level 5 restrictions, i.e. without a congregation. Saturday evening Mass intentions are combined into one Mass at 7pm and Sunday Masses are combined into one Mass at 10.30am. If you wish to make a change, that will be no problem, just make contact.

Saturday 31st Oct, 7pm: Mary Walsh, The Quay, Kinvara, months mind;
Michael Staunton, Loughcurra, 3rd anniversary;
Thomas & Mary Shaughnessy, Kinvara, and Una & Paddy Sullivan, anniversary.
Sunday, 1st Nov, 10.30am: Fr Tony Minniter, former Parish Priest of Ballinderreen, 1st anniversary.
Tuesday, 3rd Nov, 7pm: November List of the Dead.
Wednesday, 4th Nov, 7pm: People of the Parish (Ballinderreen).
Thursday 5th Nov, 7pm: November List of the Dead.
Friday 6th Nov, 7pm: People of the Parish (Kinvara).
Saturday 7th Nov, 7pm: November List of the Dead.
Sunday 8th Nov, 10.30am: Ethna Dalton, Ardee, 1st anniversary, and her husband Tomás;
Mike Hynes, Mulrook, anniversary;
Mary & Philip O’Dea, Mountscribe, anniversary;
Kathleen Clifford, Galway, anniversary.

November Masses for the Dead

The November Lists of the Dead are now available in the porches of St Colman’s Church, Ballinderreen and St Joseph’s Church, Kinvara. Nine Masses will be offered during November for those named on the lists. You can leave the lists in the letterbox of the Presbytery in Kinvara or the letterbox of the Parish Office in Ballinderreen.

The dates of the Masses, which will be live-streamed will be: Tuesday 3rd, Thursday 5th, Saturday 7th, Tuesday 10th, Thursday 12th, Thursday 19th, Tuesday 24th, Thursday 26th and Sunday 29th November 2020.

May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Mass intentions for the week from 24th October 2020

Masses are online only during the Level 5 restrictions, i.e. without a congregation. Saturday evening Mass intentions are combined into one Mass at 7pm and Sunday Masses are combined into one Mass at 10.30am. If you wish to make a change, that will be no problem, just make contact.
Saturday 24th Oct, 7pm: May & Raymond Monahan, Kinvara and deceased members of the Monahan and McLynn families, anniversary;
Thomas & Margaret Kavanagh and their daughter Marie, Newtown, anniversary.
Sunday 25th Oct, 10.30am: Lily Crosse, Convent Park, Kinvara, 1st anniversary;
Breeda Callanan, Keamsella, months mind;
Jim & Mary Quinn, John Quinn, James Quinn and deceased members of the Quinn family, Aran Quay, anniversary;
Sarah Fordham, Tyrone, Kilcolgan, and her husband Patrick, anniversary;
Patty McGrath, Dublin, 2nd anniversary.
Tuesday 27th Oct, 7pm: People of Ballinderreen Parish
Wednesday 28th Oct, 7pm: Those now deceased who attended the Mass at Poulnagean Mass Rock in 1992, seen in recent video.
Thursday 29th Oct, 7pm: Sarah Maloney, Traught, 1st anniversary.
Pat & Nora Keane, Aughinish, and deceased members of their family, anniversary.
Friday 30th Oct, 7pm: Martin Tannian, Killina, and Wolverhampton, UK, recently deceased.
Saturday 31st Oct, 7pm: Mary Walsh, The Quay, Kinvara, months mind;
Michael Staunton, Loughcurra, 3rd anniversary;
Thomas & Mary Shaughnessy, Kinvara, and Una & Paddy Sullivan, anniversary.
Sunday, 1st Nov, 10.30am: Fr Tony Minniter, former Parish Priest of Ballinderreen, 1st anniversary.

Level 5 restrictions from midnight on Wednesday, 21st October 2020

Ireland will move to Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions on Wednesday at midnight, i.e. morning of Thursday 22nd October 2020. Therefore, in Ballinderreen and Kinvara Parishes, Mass will continue to be celebrated online only, i.e. without the congregation present. At Level 5, attendance at funerals is restricted to 25 people. (Amended to 25 on 20th Oct.)
For your convenience, here is the overall official list of restrictions:
and here is a helpful gathering of most of the information into one place, provided by the Irish Independent:
Please note that anybody travelling into the country from another country, who has not restricted their movements for 14 days should not attend a funeral or wedding. See:

Level 3 Covid-19 Restrictions announcement, 6th October 2020

As announced by the government, at midnight on Tuesday 6th October 2020 (i.e. morning of Wednesday), the whole country will move to Level 3 of the ‘Plan for Living with COVID-19’ for a period of three weeks. Sadly, this means that for the duration that level 3 is in place, Church services will have to move to online only, without the congregation, and funerals and weddings will be limited to 25 people. Places of worship will be allowed to remain open for private prayer, so St Joseph’s Church in Kinvara and St Colman’s Church in Ballinderreen will be open during the day for personal prayer, observing the requirements about distancing, etc. Mass will be live-streamed on the Ballinderreen and Kinvara Parishes Facebook page on Sundays at 10.30am, and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 7.00pm. (The Mass intentions booked for the Sunday 9am and 12 noon Masses will be combined into the 10.30am Mass, but if you wish to arrange differently, or, for Sunday or weekday Masses, if you prefer to postpone a booking until you can be present in person at the Mass, please contact the Parish Office by telephone 086 85 77 644.)

Therefore, 6pm Adoration and 7pm Mass in Ballinderreen Church this evening, Tuesday 6th October 2020, will be our last public gathering in Church until the level 3 restrictions end.

Any further guidance from the Church or public authorities relevant to our situation will be announced here too as they arise.

Let’s all continue to cooperate in keeping everybody in the community safe. Thank you to our wonderful stewarding and sanitising volunteers who have worked so hard in these weeks to make our Churches very safe so that we could celebrate Mass publicly. Hopefully, you can get a good rest during these weeks, and it would be great if more volunteers would come forward now so as to spread the task fairly. Please contact Fr Hugh, or Catherine at the parish office telephone line or by email, to volunteer.

We continue our prayers to God that the COVID-19 virus may be brought to an end and we ask his protection on everybody in our community, in our country, and in the world.