St. Patrick's Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes and the Shrines of France 16TH - 23RD JULY 2012

Price €890.00, a non refundable deposit of €100 secures seat. This price is for two people sharing and you must state when booking who you intend to share with. Copy of valid passport required when booking. Payments can be made weekly.

Spiritual Director Fr. Mark O'Hagan.

For more information contact Rose in the parochial house 9334648 or 086 3718194

There are a limited number of places available.

Dear Friends,

Greetings to you, as Administrator of St. Patrick's Parish Dundalk. It is a great honour to serve in this very historic parish. Things visable and beautiful, like St. Patrick's and St. Nicholas' Churches, great testimonies to your faith and to the great people who sacrificed so much to build them. But also things not so visable, like our faith history, remembering St. Oliver Plunkett who walked here before us, celebrated the sacraments of a forbidden church, ultimately paying the price for us in his martyrdom in London in 1681. And before him, born just four miles from us St. Brigid who still cures and heals us. Great saints of the church and saints of our families, who inspire us everyday. We have a fantastic legacy to live everyday to help each other with all that life throws at us. Thats where I see my role, with the other priests to serve all in this parish in our times and to leave a legacy to the catholics of the future !

Each generation brings new challenges and we hope a new and fresh approach to bring the word of God everyday to peoples lives. As the parish grows rapidly and the numbers of your priests are declining the need for partnership and team work was never more important as it is today ! This was also the legacy and dream of the Second Vatican Council. We could feel negative about this. But in one sense its a new and exciting opportunity to be what the church should be.........talents and gifts shared for the greater good of this large and vibrant parish.

As a team of priests we would like to invite and reach out to all in the parish and ask you to tap into your gifts and talents. Be that, the Ministry of the Word (reading at Mass), Ministry of the Eucharistic, which also involves bringing our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament to the sick and housebound. We are very aware, that not everyone is comfortable in reading or being a Minister of Eucharist. You might find yourself comfortable with our teams in cleaning our churches, in collecting at masses, in the work of Childrens Liturgy, the Baptism team, the Choirs or Youth Ministry. Everyone has talents and a place to build up this great parish.

Looking forward to hearing from you, seeing you and talking to you.

God Bless to all - Fr. Mark. Adm.

Sunday 5 December 2011 was an historic day in the life of St. Patrick's Parish Dundalk when our parishioner Mr Benignus Ndubuisi was accepted  by Cardinal Brady  a as candidate for the permanent diaconate at a ceremony in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh. The ceremony was described by Cardinal Brady as a red-letter day for the diocese  because Ben and the five other candidates were the first ever candidates for the permanent diaconate in the diocese.  

Ben was joined in the Cathedral by his wife Celistina, his children Chisom, Chibuikem Ndubuisi and Chidinma and my many people from the African community in Dundalk. Fr Andrew McNally, Adm. was in attendance and the Parish Pastoral Council was represented my  the Chairperson, Mrs Marie Flynn.

In November 2010 four adults and two children of catechetical age have been accepted into the parish as catechumens preparing for full initiation in the Catholic Church. While they are not yet baptised they are now members of our parish community. We welcome them joyfully and congratulate them on becoming members of our parish community.  They are Brinley Fuller, Kelicha Daphey, Leah Hartley, Kaylee Dinnegan , Ina Vanickina and Viktorja Klavina.