Saturday 27th December, 7pm, St Joseph’s, Kinvara: Gerry Forde, Parkroe, 24th anniversary.
Mattie and Mary Keenan, Tyrone, Kilcolgan, anniversary;
Saturday 27th December, 7pm, St Joseph’s, Kinvara: Gerry Forde, Parkroe, 24th anniversary.
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.

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.
There will not be 9.15am morning Mass on Wednesday 24th December 2025 in Ballinderreen Church. See Christmas Mass times post for the Mass times at Christmas.







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.