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Mass times and intentions for the week from 27th December 2025

Saturday 27th December, 7pm, St Joseph’s, Kinvara: Gerry Forde, Parkroe, 24th anniversary.

Sunday 28th December:
 
9am, Doorus: Tom and Kathleen Mahon, Geeha, anniversary and deceased family members;
Mattie Glynn, Traught, and deceased family members, anniversary.
 
10.30am, Ballinderreen: Pete and Mary Quinn, Ballinderreen, anniversary;
Mattie and Mary Keenan, Tyrone, Kilcolgan, anniversary;
Mikey Hynes, Newtown, Kilcolgan, anniversary;
Conor Roberts, Colorado, USA, recently deceased.
 
12 noon, St Colman’s, Kinvara: Mass.
 
Tuesday 30th December, 7pm, Ballinderreen: Mass.
 
Wednesday 31st December, 9.15am, Ballinderreen: Mass.
 
Thursday 1st January 2026:
 
12am (i.e. between night of New Years Eve and morning of New Years Day), St Joseph’s, Kinvara: Mass to begin the new year.
 
10am, St Joseph’s, Kinvara: Stephen Warde, Convent Park, 6th anniversary.
 
12 noon, Ballinderreen: Offered for those to whom the Parish Christmas Novena Mass cards were sent.  (1st of 9)
 
Friday 2nd January, 10am, St Joseph’s, Kinvara: Offered for those to whom the Parish Christmas Novena Mass cards were sent.  (2nd of 9)
 
Saturday 3rd January, 7pm, St Joseph’s, Kinvara: Frank Flatley, The Square, Kinvara, months mind, and his wife Mary Flatley RIP.
 
Sunday 4th January:
 
9am, Doorus: Peter, Paddy and Tomás Mahon, Geeha, anniversary.
 
10.30am, Ballinderreen: John Killoran and his parents John and Nora Killoran, Ballinderreen, anniversary.
 
12 noon, St Colman’s, Kinvara: Mass.

Adoration arrangements Christmas 2025

The Kinvara Thursday of Adoration will not take place on Christmas Day 2025 and New Years Day 2026, and will re-commence on Thursday 8th January 2026. Thank you to those who pray for all of us in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament in the Adoration Chapel on Thursdays.

Parish Office Christmas Holidays

The Parish Office is now closed for the Christmas break and will re-open on Wednesday 7th January 2026 at 9.30am. We thank Orla Vesey, the Parish Secretary for all her great work and kindness to parishioners during the year and wish her and family a very happy Christmas.

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 2025

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.