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Roman Catholic Parish served by the Irish Capuchin Franciscan friars in the heart of Dublin. Reg The Parish of St.

Michan in Halston Street serves the businesses and families in the North Inner City from Capel Street west to the Phoenix Park.

12/09/2025

Annual National Novena to St Pio in Church Street on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of September.

10/05/2025

Please pray for Brother Antony who will be ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Donal Roche at 2:30pm Irish time in our Friary of St. Mary of the Angels, Church St in Dublin.
Br. Antony has ministered as Deacon in our parish for the past year.

The Ordination will be live streamed on the following websites:
1. www.memoriallane.ie/ordination
2. https://www.youtube.com/c/Cat%C3%B3licosemDublin/streams

The First Mass of Thanksgiving will take place in Halston St tomorrow at 12 Irish time and can be viewed on the following link
1. https://halstonstreetparish.ie/our-parish/webcam/
2. https://www.youtube.com/live/WfXzUDqeZxc

May the grace and blessing of the Lord and the protection of the Blessed Mother be with him today and always+

02/05/2025

The Month of May is dedicated to Our Lady and brings with it a plenitude of heavenly riches indeed!

Our Mother is the one who in her own person brings in the One who is the Light of the World and, with Joseph as his earthly guardian, guides Him to readiness for His Mission.

In and through Mary we receive every gift: for while the Church, and the Sacraments come to us from Christ, Christ comes to us through Mary.
Christ, the Eternal Word is spoken into our world by Mary's word: it is through her "fiat!", her "Yes!" that we have communion with Christ.

Salve Regina Angelorum!

Traditionally people greeted the May sunrise and gave thanks for the first fruits and flowers of Summer by dressing the Holy Wells and the wayside shrines to Mary. In the home the May Altar was erected and fresh flowers placed there throughout the month. Consecration of homes, families and individuals to Mary’s protection took place and May processions and crownings of Our Lady’s Icons and statues were celebrated...

So however you celebrate these days may our holy Mother be with you and yours!

The poem May Magnificat by the Jesuit mystic and poet Gerald Manly Hopkins puts it so beautifully;

The May Magnificat

MAY is Mary’s month, and I
Muse at that and wonder why:
Her feasts follow reason,
Dated due to season—

Candlemas, Lady Day;
But the Lady Month, May,
Why fasten that upon her,
With a feasting in her honour?

Is it only its being brighter
Than the most are must delight her?
Is it opportunest
And flowers finds soonest?

Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in every thing—

Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
Grass and greenworld all together;
Star-eyed strawberry-breasted
Throstle above her nested

Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
Forms and warms the life within;
And bird and blossom swell
In sod or sheath or shell.

All things rising, all things sizing
Mary sees, sympathising
With that world of good,
Nature’s motherhood.

Their magnifying of each its kind
With delight calls to mind
How she did in her stored
Magnify the Lord.

Well but there was more than this:
Spring’s universal bliss
Much, had much to say
To offering Mary May.

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple
Bloom lights the orchard-apple
And thicket and thorp are merry
With silver-surfèd cherry

And azuring-over greybell makes
Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes
And magic cuckoocall
Caps, clears, and clinches all—

This ecstasy all through mothering earth
Tells Mary her mirth till Christ’s birth
To remember and exultation
In God who was her salvation.

Gerard Manley Hopkins sj

27/04/2025

With great sadness we bid farewell to Sr. Colette Stevenson of the presentation sisters Georges Hill who passed to the Lord on Friday. She served on the Parish Council for Halston St for many years as well as having had a long career working with religious and diocesan safeguarding. May she rest in peace. Her funeral arrangements follow.

STEVENSON, Sr. Colette, (Presentation Convent, Georges Hill, Dublin, & formerly of Cork)
Peacefully at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, on April 25th.
She will be sadly missed by her colleagues and friends in the Presentation Sisters community & her family, siblings Veronica, Sam, Pat, Brendan & Miriam, nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, relatives and very many friends.

May she rest in the peace of the Lord.

Reposing in the convent chapel at Georges Hill (D07 AE39), Monday 28th of April from 3 pm with prayers at 7 pm. Funeral mass at St Michan's church, Halston St. (D07 Y2T5) on Tuesday 29th at 11 am. Burial after in Glasnevin cemetery.

To view Sr. Colette's funeral mass please follow the attached live stream link. https://halstonstreetparish.ie/our-parish/webcam/

23/04/2025

Our Sunday Mass at 12 this week (27th of April) will be offered for the eternal repose of the soul of our Holy Father Pope Francis.
As always, all are welcome!

Eternal rest grant unto Pope Francis O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace amen+
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace amen+

21/04/2025

A very sad morning hearing of the passing to the Lord of our Holy Father Pope Francis.

A truly humble and holy pastor of the flock of God. His all embracing love for God’s creation, his defence of the poor and the marginalised and his insistence of the mercy of God for all made him a wonderful teacher of the joy of the Gospel. May he rest in peace and rise in glory +

His last public words delivered yesterday from the balcony of St. Peter’s square sum up the fullness of the Gospel, “Happy Easter!”

May Our Lady whom he loved so much issue him into the presence of her Son and Sts. Peter and Paul pray for him.

O God, faithful rewarder of souls,
grant that your departed servant Pope Francis,
whom you made successor of Peter and shepherd of your Church,
may happily enjoy for ever in your presence in heaven
the mysteries of your grace and compassion,
which he faithfully ministered on earth.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

18/04/2025

The Meeting on the Way.

I do not think it happened as the pictures show;
the woman swooning into the arms of John,
or held back and cowed by soldiers' spears.
No.
That is not the way a mother
is present to a dying child.
I have stood at the deathbed
of too many not to know.
No one could hold back a mother
who saw death in the eyes of her son.
Believe me when I tell you
whether in the dusty streets
or the sterile hospital room
this is how it happens, by and large.
The men?
They weep and rage there and then as is their way.
But the mothers are a steely silent presence, a rock immovable,
their gaze granite as they bear their born into the next life.
The swooning and the wailing happen only after
the final stillness comes.
So it must have been then too.
In that moment of their meeting
I see a sphere of silence envelope them there,
the sanctuary of their communion
so present, so profound
that all the chaotic pain of mobbing noise
seems just for a moment to cease around them both,
as for the last time upon his bloodied way,
He rests.
She had seen Him safely into the world
and now she will see him safely out of it,
even though nature rebels in the hearts of all parents
who see death in the face of their child.
Even though the ever present sword
buries itself deeper,
always deeper into her heart
with every breath.
She knows its pain well.
It had begun the moment the angel left.
Even in Nazareth days it was present,
a shadow overhanging,
present in every childish cut and bruise and tear
soothed upon her knee,
and held at bay by love.
Did she remember in that moment the day
he told her the time had come?
Her life was always yes to all that liberates life,
as every woman’s is,
whether through the womb, or the heart, or the mind,
but surely, no, was near her mother’s lips that day.
Now all she can do is be,
here,
now.
Present to Him who is,
in this moment more than ever,
simply a son in need of His mother
She will bear him now again into new life.
The pangs of this birth will
touch death itself and conquer it,
as all birth does, and though
this time the gate will be the heart,
the hidden womb, that sealed tabernacle,
will weep also in pain.
For now they simply gaze, a moment, an eternity
before which even angels hide their faces in shame.
It is enough.
He knows now she is with him.
He will see her at the end.
So He stumbles on
as on the breeze he is surrounded
by the scent of Nazareth:
wood dust, frankincense, fresh bread,
and even in the street of pain He is,
for a moment,
home.

(Picture of Our Lady extrapolated from the Holy Shroud by Julian Lasbleiz. What a wonderful talent!)

16/04/2025

Times of the ceremonies of the Easter Triduum:

Holy Thursday:
Mass of the Lord’s Supper 6pm
A period of Eucharistic Adoration will follow the Mass

Good Friday:
Solemn Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3pm
Includes the Veneration of the Holy Cross

Holy Saturday:
Easter Vigil of the Lord’s Resurrection 7pm

Easter Sunday:
Mass of the Resurrection of the Lord 12 noon

15/04/2025

Of veiling the saints and unveiling mercy…

As is the custom in many churches we cover the statues during Passiontide and Holy Week. It is a solemn moment that concentrates the mind of the faithful upon the mysteries we are about to celebrate… but the best explanation for the custom I ever heard was from a grandmother who was sitting with her granddaughter in the bench as we were covering the statues.
After watching for a while open-eyed she asked her Gran, “Why are they covering the saints?” To which her grandmother replied,
“Because what’s about to happen next week is too sad for the saints to see.”
“So”, the little girl answered, “they get to have a rest?”
“They rest”, said her gran, “But Jesus never rests, and this week He really works hard to show us how much we are loved.”

04/03/2025

The Novena of Grace in honour of St. Francis Xavier which begins today and runs until the 12th of March has a very special place in my heart.

We will pray the novena each day in our parish of St. Michan’s (where the novena was first prayed in Ireland) during the daily Mass.
Blessing with the relic of St. Francis each day after the Mass and blessing with his Mission Cross on the 12th.

If you would like to keep it as a time of prayer for yourself and those you pray for then the novena prayer follows:

Saint Francis Xavier Novena Prayer
O most kind and loving saint, in union with you I adore the Divine Majesty. The remembrance of the favours with which God blessed you during life, and of your glory after death, fills me with joy; and I unite with you in offering to God my humble tribute of thanksgiving and of praise.
I implore of you to secure for me, through your powerful intercession, the all important blessing of living and dying in the state of grace. I also beseech you to obtain the favour I ask in this Novena
(here mention the favour to be asked for):

but if what I ask is not for the glory of God or for the good of my soul, obtain for me what is most conducive to both.

Amen.

Concluding Prayer

O God,
who was pleased to gather unto your Church
the people of the East
by the preaching and miracles of blessed Francis,
mercifully grant that we who honour his glorious merits,
may also imitate the example of his virtues,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.

13/12/2024

Don’t forget!
Candlelit Christmas Carols with Michelle and Morgan

Saturday 14th of December (after the 6pm Mass until 7:30pm)

We welcome our wonderful cantor and accompanist to help us enter fully into the Advent / Christmas season with an hour of Christmas Carols and Songs.

All are welcome!

10/12/2024

Free Parish Events to help prepare for Christmas and our Christmas Schedule!

Candlelit Christmas Carols with Michelle and Morgan
Saturday 14th of December (after the 6pm Mass until 7:30pm)
We welcome our wonderful cantor and accompanist to help us enter fully into the Advent / Christmas season with an hour of Christmas Carols and Songs. All are welcome.

A Winter Evening of Spiritual Music and Story with Matthew and Daria
Weds the 18th of December at 7pm. Guitarist and Singers Matthew and Daria Shields come home to Dublin before Christmas and offer an evening of reflective music with a Winter and Christmas theme. All are welcome. Free entry but a collection will be taken up for the Parish branch of the St. Vincent dePaul.

Christmas Schedule:
Confessions available 5-5:45pm and after 6pm Mass each Saturday in Advent.
Christmas Eve: 7pm including procession to the Crib and the Franciscan Blessing of Children.
Christmas Day: 12noon

Address

12 Halston Street
Dublin
7

Telephone

+35318730675

Website

http://www.halstonstreetparish.ie/

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