Cór na nÓg Inis Céin youth choir is resuming rehearsals on Monday night September 18th 2023 in Enniskeane Church from 7:15pm to 8.00pm.
New members from first class up are very welcome (any child under 8 must be accompanied by a parent). Resistration can be done with the coordinating parents at the practice. Enquiries Margaret 086-8632774.
The Parish Assembly is a good indicator of the vitality of a parish faith community.
Enniskeane and Desertserges parishioners nominated their first parish assembly in 2016.
People serve a three-year term in leadership and action in the parish.
This is a message from some of the members of the outgoing assembly.
You can nominate yourself or another online now at http://enniskeaneparish.ie/parish/index.php/2022-parish-assembly-nominations/
Nominations close on June 19th. Nominees will be contacted and invited to an Information Meeting for newly nominated members will be held in Castletown Church on Tuesday evening June 28th where everyone will meet and find out what’s involved so people can then decide to commit to it or not.
Our Parish Assembly’s term of service is out since last year but they kindly agreed to stay involved until this year — to allow for the impact of Covid19.
So the parish is asking everyone in our faith community to think about nominating themselves or someone else to be a member.
This video shows the many people who have been involved — and are welcome to serve again if they wish. But we need fresh ideas, new energy, more inspiration, too!
The weekend of June 14th is your Assembly Nomination weekend and nominations close a week later on the 19th. We’ll have nomination papers at all the Masses – and you can also nominate online on this website by clicking here.
As Covid-19 restrictions are eased, Enniskeane Parish welcomes congregations back from Monday May 10th. This short video tells you what you need to know.
Mass with a congregation from Monday June 29th in Enniskeane Church
Following government and NPHET guidance, churches will be able to open for Mass and other sacraments from Monday June 29th. However, restrictions and conditions apply.
Each parish has been asked by Bishop Fintan to assemble a group to guide and support our preparations. Thanks to the people who have offered to help guide the re-opening of Enniskeane parish church for Mass.
They are: Mike Burgoyne, John Coffey, JJ Barrett, Nora Bradfield, Tess Chambers, Joan Collins, Frances Keohane, Carena McCarthy, Colette O’Regan Walsh, Hilary O’Riordan.
There is also a group of volunteers helping to sanitise the churches across the parish each day they are open.
We will open our churches with:
Because we must have social distancing the capacity of the church is much reduced because only one in every three of the 50 pews will be occupied.
We will continue to broadcast Mass on Facebook Live on Sundays at 11am.
People who are vulnerable or unsure about coming to Sunday Mass are assured that they can join in prayer from home. They can also come to a weekday Mass instead.
Monday 29th at 10am — the first weekday Mass will be celebrated in Enniskeane with a congregation.
On weekends, we have Mass following our summer schedule, i.e. Saturday evenings at 7.30pm and on Sunday at 11am.
Everyone will be welcome. We will do everything we can to make that our churches are clean and safe. Our parish together is working together to make this happen.
We look forward to meeting one another in Communion with us and the Lord again.
For the first time in living memory most people will not be able to go to their local church for the most sacred week of the year. During Holy Week (between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday) Christians contemplate the suffering, death and resurrection of Christ and prayerfully attend a series of liturgies which are celebrated on the days corresponding to the events in the life of Christ.
This year, due to restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, Catholics are invited to join in prayer from their homes while the Masses and other ceremonies are held in churches without a congregation present and some priests celebrate Mass privately in their homes.
All the Holy Week liturgies will be celebrated at the Cathedral in Cork and people can join by the Cathedral live stream.
Enniskeane Parish will broadcast ceremonies on the parish Facebook Page.
