St. Mary’s Parish Church Dungarvan
PLEASE NOTE: The Parish Church is open for the celebration of public Masses and Masses continue to be broadcast on 98.5FM.
Mass Times
Monday to Friday – 9.30am Mass, with the exception below;
*One morning Mass at 11.00am only on the occasion of funerals.
Saturday – 7.30pm Vigil Mass (Please note: There will be no 11.00am Mass on Saturday mornings)
Sunday – 10.00am & 12.00 noon Mass
Masses for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saturday, 15th August is a Holyday of Obligation. Masses for the Holyday in St. Mary’s Parish Church and the Friary Church only.
Vigil Mass in the Friary only: 6.15pm, Friday 14th August.
Moring Masses (August 15th): The Friary, 10.00am; St. Mary’s, 11.00am.
All Masses broadcast on 98.5FM
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Announcements before this Weekend’s Masses, August 15/16, 2026
Today we celebrate the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A. Welcome and welcome to everyone who joins us by radio on 98.5FM.
Further details to be announced before Masses on the 15th and 16th August…
(12 noon Mass Only) You are reminded that the main churchyard gates and the CBS Primary School gates are locked immediately after this Mass.
Parish notes are forwarded each week to the two local newspapers.
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Newspaper Notes 17/08/2026
Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help
This novena begins on Monday 24th August at 7.30pm and will continue for 9 Mondays until Monday 19th October. No morning Mass on Mondays during the novena. The Icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help draws us in. Mary says: ‘Come to me.’ Her face is sorrowful, yet calm. She is looking, not at Jesus, but at each of us, her children, saying: ‘come to me and I will bring you closer to my Son.’
17th August: Our Lady of Knock
The story of Knock began on the 21 August 1879 when Our Lady, St. Joseph and St John the Evangelist appeared at the south gable of Knock Parish Church. This miraculous apparition was witnessed by fifteen people, young and old. Knock is an internationally recognised Marion Shrine. Saint John Paul II visited Knock as part of his 1979 papal pilgrimage to Ireland. Pope Francis went to Knock and prayed at the Shrine before the final Mass of the World Meeting of Families at the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on Sunday, 26 August 2018. The date of the memorial is within the annual novena conducted at the Shrine. Pope Francis, on the Feast of St. Joseph, 19 March 2021, declared Knock to be an International Shrine of Eucharistic and Marion Devotion. (Liturgical Calendar for Ireland 2026, p.186)
Prayer to Our Lady of Knock
Our Lady of Knock, Queen of Ireland, you gave hope to your people in a time of distress and comforted them in sorrow. You have inspired countless pilgrims to pray with confidence to your divine Son, remembering His promise, “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find.” Help me to remember that we are all pilgrims on the road to heaven. Fill me with love and concern for my brothers and sisters in Christ, especially those who live with me. Comfort me when I am sick, lonely or depressed. Teach me how to take part ever more reverently at Mass. Give me a greater love of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Pray for me now, and at the hour of my death. Amen.
Parish of Kilgobinet – Colligan – Kilbrien
The Vigil Mass on Saturday, August 22nd will be celebrated in Kilbrien Church at 7.30pm.
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Dungarvan Youth Club
More information on our notice boards or at the email address: youthclubdungarvanparish@hotmail.com
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Prayers
Pope Francis’ Prayer to Our Lady
O Mary,
You shine continuously on our journey
as a sign of salvation and hope.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick,
who, at the foot of the cross,
were united with Jesus’ suffering,
and persevered in your faith.
“Protectress of the Roman people”,
you know our needs,
and we know that you will provide,
so that, as at Cana in Galilee,
joy and celebration may return
after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to conform ourselves to the will of the Father
and to do what Jesus tells us.
For he took upon himself our suffering,
and burdened himself with our sorrows
to bring us, through the cross,
to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen.
We fly to your protection, O Holy Mother of God;
Do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always
from every danger, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.