Cashel & Emly Youth & Young Adult Ministry

10/09/2026

Holycross Abbey Solemn Novena 2026

Tomorrow's Speaker: Breda O Brien
Fri 11th Sept - 7am, 10.30am, 4.30pm and 7,30pm.
Theme: Poverty of Loneliness

Breda O'Brien is a columnist with the Irish Times and Irish Catholic, a frequent commentator on broadcast media on social and religious affairs, and spent many years as a teacher of Religion and English at second level. She is married and has four grown children, with a grandchild on the way.

10/09/2026

CABRAGH WETLANDS CELEBRATES AUTUMN EQUINOX 🍂
Wednesday, 23rd Sept, 8pm. All Welcome 🍂 🍁

08/09/2026

Today we celebrate the birthday of Our Lady 🙏

Today we celebrate the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

We celebrate this great day nine months after she was immaculately conceived, on December 8th, in the womb of her mother St. Anne.

In today’s Gospel we are reminded of the great prophecy that Mary will fulfill:

"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥, 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 ‘𝐆𝐨𝐝-𝐢𝐬-𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡-𝐮𝐬."

Perhaps today we can ponder this great mystery.

How a human like Mary was given such an honour to be the God-bearer, and to have Jesus within her for nine months.

She became a tabernacle.

Coming from her Jesus would of course have looked like Mary and derived much from her.

We honour her today for her great faith and fedility to God's will.

Her yes, made redemption possible.

Her birth gave us all hope.

05/09/2026

Today we celebrate St Mother Teresa .

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born in Macedonia in 1910 and died in1997.

She left home at the age of 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin, where she received the name Sister Mary Teresa, after St Thérèse of Lisieux.

In 1931 she was assigned to the order’s Calcutta house and taught at their school there, where she eventually became headmistress.

She received a new vocation to help the poor and destitute, and in 1948, obeying this call, she left the convent and took up a new life caring for them wherever they might be: lying sick in the street or even dying in dustbins.

Some of her former pupils joined her, one by one, and the new congregation of the Missionaries of Charity was established in the Diocese of Calcutta in 1950, spreading across India and eventually onto every continent, even behind the Iron Curtain.

Her order tries to imitate Our Lady, a missionary of charity to her cousin Elizabeth.

She was beatified by her great friend Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003 and canonized by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016.

She famously said: _"If there are 1,000 hungry people in your city, why not make it 999?

05/09/2026

05/09/2026

During World Youth Day in Lisbon/Fátima in 2023, a young Spanish woman named Jimena (from Madrid) experienced a powerful encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist. For two and a half years, Jimena had suffered from a severe myopia-related condition (an accommodation spasm affecting her eyes’ ability to focus).

This left her with 95% vision loss — her sight was extremely blurry, and she had even begun learning Braille.

She attended Mass at the Fátima shrine and received Holy Communion. Immediately afterward, Jimena reported a sudden and complete restoration of her vision. She opened her eyes and could see clearly: the altar, the tabernacle, her friends — everything perfectly.

She credits this miracle to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and her novena prayers to Our Lady.

This moving testimony reminds us of the immense power of the Blessed Sacrament. Just as Jesus healed the blind in Scripture, He continues to touch lives today through the Eucharist — our source of spiritual and sometimes physical healing.

This week, try to attend Eucharistic A doration or receive Holy Communion with renewed faith. Bring your own intentions to Jesus truly present.

Lord Jesus, present in the Holy Eucharist, strengthen our faith and grant us the grace to see You more clearly each day. Amen. 🙏

27/08/2026

BE INSPIRED - LIVE THE FAITH - ST. MONICA

St. Monica (331 - 387) AD, Born in Tagaste, which is present-day Algeria.
Honored as the patron saint of mothers, wives, and difficult marriages.
She married a pagan man with a violent temper. Her patience and persistent prayer eventually led him to convert to Christianity. Her son Augustine rejected the faith and lived a wayward life for many years.
Monica prayed for his conversion through tears for nearly two decades.
Augustine finally converted and was baptised. He later became one of the most important teachers in the history of the Church - St Augustine.

25/08/2026

Conference Speaker Announcement!

Christine O'Hara is a Mathematics and Religion teacher in a Catholic boys secondary school in Cork. She leads a Eucharistic Adoration Club and three Rosary groups in her school. She also organises Reconciliation Services for her students where students have encountered the merciful love of Jesus in a very tangible way. She also organises school tours to Knock Shrine. She leads two Fatima First Saturday Groups in two different parishes and a Children’s Rosary Group in her parish. She has witnessed first-hand the power the Eucharistic Lord, Confession and the Holy Rosary has to bring young people closer to God and experience His love. She desires to see devotion to the Rosary spreading in schools and she also desires to see the renewal of the practice of Fatima First Saturday devotion in parishes, which Our Lady of Fatima has said will bring peace to the world.

The workshop she will give is entitled: "Encountering the Lord through the Holy Rosary".

Come join our Legion of Mary Young Adult Conference 'Embrace the Grace' on Saturday 29 August from 9.30am and hear what Christine O'Hara has to say!

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/embrace-the-grace-young-adult-catholic-conference-ages-18-40-tickets

Deus Et Patria - Legion of Mary Events Frank Duff - Founder of Legion of Mary Catholic Youth Ministry in Ireland Templemore Clonmore Killea Parish Thurles Parish Cashel & Rosegreen Parish Caherconlish & Caherline Community Knockainey Community News.

21/08/2026

Youth2000 Summer Festival 🌟
Have a listen to Fr Vincent, and please share to young adults. Keep an eye out for future Youth2000 events in our Diocese and throughout Ireland 🙏


Gortnahoe Glengoole Parish Team Thurles Parish Holycross Ballycahill MBL Parish News Templemore Clonmore Killea Parish Moyne Templetuohy Parish Cashel & Rosegreen Parish Ballina & Boher Parish Knockainey Community News. Parish of New Inn & Knockgraffon Caherconlish & Caherline Community Loughmore Castleiney Parish Drom and Inch Parish