27 September 2026
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Services during the Week:
Saggart: Mass: Sun 9am, Tue, Wed & Fri 11am.
Adoration: Sat and Sun 4 to 7pm
Rathcoole: Mass: Sat 6pm, Sun 12pm, Tue & Thu 10am.
Adoration: Sun 4 to 6pm, Tue 10.30am to 1pm and 3 to 5pm; Fri 9am to 12pm and 3 to 7pm
Newcastle: Mass: Sun 10am. Mon & Fri 10am.
Adoration: Sat 3 to 5pm.
Confession: Available by request, generally after any Mass.
Baptisms/Marriages: Contact Parish Office for details (086 0108420 on Tue, Wed & Thu from 10am to 12.30pm)
Remember in your Prayers
Please pray for the souls of Marian Doyle, Deirdre McDermott, Rita Gaughan (funeral Mass Saggart Monday 11am) & Fergus McCarthy (Funeral Mass Rathcoole Monday 1pm).
May they Rest in Peace.
Crosscare Collection
Thank you for supporting this year’s Crosscare Annual Appeal last weekend. Donations can also be made online at www.crosscare.ie
Safeguarding Sunday
Safeguarding Sunday takes place on Sunday 27th September. Special prayers will be offered up for all those affected by abuse in the church over the years.
St Vincent de Paul
Monthly church gate collection takes place after all Masses this weekend. As always your support is greatly appreciated.
First Friday
Next Friday is the first Friday of the month. In each church Mass will be offered for the repose of the souls of all those names inscribed in our November altar list of the dead. Visits, by the priests, to those unable to attend church will be organised. If you would like a visit, contact any of the sacristies with names and contact details.
First Holy Communion/Confirmation Enrolment
Non-parish Schools, First Penance/Eucharist: Information night for parents Tuesday, 29th Sept at 7pm Saggart church. Confirmation: Information night for parents Wednesday, 30th at 7pm Saggart church.
The parish schools (St. Mary’s Saggart, Holy Family/Scoil Chronain Rathcoole, St. Martin’s Brittas & St. Finian’s Newcastle) organize the preparation through the schools in combination with the parish.
Newcastle Community Week
Well done to all who organised the different events to mark Community week last week. In particular to those who organised the Dublin Gospel Choir’s ‘Night of Soul’ in St Finian’s church last Saturday evening. The Newcastle Folk group also took part and did us proud!.
Four District’s Community First Responders Quiz Night
Friday, 2nd October. 9pm in Rathcoole Inn. Do drop in for a bit of fun. In 2025 we responded to over 300 emergency calls from the National Ambulance Service and rely 100% on donations to respond to life threatening emergencies in our community. We need your support.
Pathways into Pastoral Ministry
This course is for any adult who wants to explore and grow their faith. Over a year, participants are offered inputs on foundational issues of faith and the impact they have on ministry and parish life. There is also time for small group sharing and the opportunity for three different retreat experiences. On completion of the course, people are presented with a certificate.
Pathways is run on a Thursday evening (during term times) at the St Patrick’s campus of DCU in Drumcondra from 7.15pm to 9.15pm. The course starts on September 24th and runs until May 13th, and costs €300.
For further details, please visit the adult faith section of www.dublindiocese.ie/missionministry or contact peter.siney@dublindiocese.ie.
Newman University Church
The annual Newman Lecture takes place on Thursday, 5th November, at 7pm in Newman University Church. Father Paul Murray OP will be giving a lecture ‘Everybody Wants to Be Happy’: Finding The Path to Joy Beyond Disillusion. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served after. Father Murray is an Irish Dominican, theologian, and poet from County Down. Author of many books, before retirement he taught the literature of the mystical tradition at the Angelicum University in Rome.
Saint John Henry Newman’s (the founder and builder of University Church) feast day is the 9th of October. One way we will be celebrating as a parish community is praying a novena for the 9 days preceding his feast. You can pick up a card with the novena prayer in church. This will be followed by Sunday Mass with hymns inspired by his writings and tea & biscuits afterwards! All are welcome.
Visit of Relics of St Therese of Liseaux & Parents
The Relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux and Ss Louis and Zélie Martin will be welcomed to Legion of Mary, Dublin, (Morning Star Hostel, D07VA03) on Friday, 2nd October, at 1pm by Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell. They will be available for public veneration until Saturday, 3rd October, at 5pm, when a closing mass will be celebrated by Bishop Paul Dempsey.
Mass for the Missing
A remembrance Mass for missing people and their families will be held in St Mary’s Church, Sandyford, D18 E5R3, on Saturday, October 10, at 2.30pm. The Mass will be celebrated by Fr Aquinas Duffy. This is a poignant ceremony to pray for missing people, and for comfort and strength for families, and to guide all search efforts towards their successful return. Prayers will also be offered for Irish people missing abroad and pray for an end to the sufferings of these families.
RCIA – Brazilian Community
The Brazilian Catholic Community Católicos em Dublin is now accepting registrations for a new Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) catechesis class in Portuguese. For more information and registration, please visit the link in the community’s Instagram bio @catolicosemdublin or contact them via WhatsApp at 0833813813.
French Language Mass
Mass for the French-speaking Catholic community in Dublin in St Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, is on the second and fourth Sundays of each month at 12.30pm from September to June.
Italian Language Mass
Italian Catholic Community Dublin. Masses in Aughrim Street Church every Saturday at 5.30pm (fourth Sunday of the month followed by community gathering). Other activities: Biblical Catechesis (online); Pre-marriage Catechesis: Rosary (online); Book Club: https://facebook.com/italiani.cattolici.a.dublino/. Contact: Fr Coriolan Muresan. cattolici.dublin@gmail.com / coryolan26@yahoo.it / 012447995.
Ukrainian Catholic Chaplaincy
Ukrainian Mass (Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Byzantine rite) is held every Sunday at 1pm in Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, Artane, D05 FH28. Fr Vasyl Kornitsky is Chaplain to the Ukrainian community. He can be contacted at 086 2359561 or ugccie@gmail.com.
Season of Creation 2026
After this summer in Ireland, we don’t have to imagine burnt earth, dry and cracked soil, desert and depleted resources of water. If we were lukewarm before about ‘Care for our Common Home’ or cynical about ‘Laudato Si’ we have an opportunity to revisit those views by immersing ourselves in the celebration of the Season of Creation in our liturgies and our communities (everything doesn’t happen inside the church building) from September 1 to October 4 (Feast of St Francis of Assisi).
The Season of Creation 2026 resources can be found here: Season of Creation 2026
These resources for 2026 were compiled by the ‘Laudato Si’ Working Group of the Irish Bishops’ Conference & Trócaire. The theme is ‘Living Water’ inspired by Ezekiel 47:9,12.