Events in Knock this Winter

                              

‘God, You’re Breaking My Heart’

Saturday 12th November   Time: 10.00am – 3.00pm
Venue: Knock House Hotel Presenter:Brian Grogan SJ
Cost: €30 including lunch

 

Living in Hope

Saturday 26th November       Time: 10.00am – 3.00pm
Venue: Taize Room, Prayer Guidance Centre
Presenter:Deirdre Ní Chinnéide Cost: €30 including lunch 

At some time in all our lives we experience darkness and even despair. Take some time out on a quiet day in God’s presence. Allowing the light of his presence shine light in the darkness and lead us into new hope.

 

Quiet Days for Busy People

Saturday 5th November       Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
Venue: Taize Room, Prayer Guidance Centre Presenter: Prayer Guides  Cost: €30 including lunch
Join us at Knock for a day of quiet reflection. Take some time out for yourself to discover new life in the heart of the Gospels, and that prayer like love is learned by doing.

 

Digital Detox

Saturday 3rd December   Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm Venue: Taize Room, Prayer Guidance Centre Cost: €30 including lunch

Why not give yourself permission to disconnect from your technology for a day, nourish your soul with a quiet reflective space in order to gain a deep awareness of who you are in God’s presence.

Read more - brochure HERE

New Knock mosaic to be unveiled next month - CatholicIreland.net

Team of mosaic-makers from Italy are in Knock to assemble Irish artist PJ Lynch's depiction of the 1879 apparition.

Next month, Our Lady’s Basilica in Knock Co Mayo is due to unveil its much anticipated new apparition mosaic – the centrepiece of the forty-year-old basilica’s €10 million renovation programme.

The mosaic is reputed to be one of the largest mosaics of its kind in Europe and depicts the apparition in the West of Ireland village of Our Lady, St Joseph, and St John the Evangelist on the evening of 21 August 1879 to 15 men, women and children, whose ages ranged from five to seventy-five.
Designed by the well-known Irish artist, PJ Lynch, who is renowned for his magical illustrations of children’s books, the Italian company, Travisanutto Mosaics in Spilimbergo, has sent a team of mosaic-makers to Knock to start assembling the huge 14 square metre artwork.

The massive wall hanging which will be placed behind the altar on the sanctuary wall.

The mosaic team transported the artwork to Knock in sections, by articulated truck across Europe, last week.

Travisanutto Mosaics have previously been involved in projects at some of the best known religious sites around the world, such as the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and the Basilica at the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, the largest Catholic church in the US.
The unveiling of the mosaic on 28 February is the final part of the renewal project at Knock, called ‘Witness to Hope’, which was launched two years ago by Fr Richard Gibbons, parish priest at Knock Shrine.

In autumn 2014, ‘Witness to Hope’ was launched with the aim of refurbishing Our Lady’s Basilica.
The 1976 design was dated, dull and a triumph of functionality over spiritual uplift. Today, the emphasis is on a sacred space.

New stained glass windows were commissioned from glass artist Róisín de Buitléar to convey a sense of pilgrimage and journeying towards the sacred. In addition, up to 3,700 carved and comfortable seats made of ash were installed around the basilica.

Every piece of concrete has now been covered and now clad with granite and oak, giving the place a more welcoming veneer than the more brutal functionality it had previously and of course it is now insulated and so it is a lot less drafty than it was.

In addition to the refurbishment, Knock is promoting the shrine as a place of pilgrimage nationally and internationally, and introducing new faith development programmes for those in need of a spiritual tonic.

30th August 2015 - Knock: Witness to Hope - Interview with Fr Richard Gibbons - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

On this weeks programme John and Shane are joined by Fr Richard Gibbons, parish priest of Knock and rector of Knock Shrine telling us about the on going renewal at Knock. We have our regular reflection on the Sunday gospel as well as other liturgical odds and ends.

You can listen to the podcast of this weeks programme HERE.

Witness to Hope - Interview with Fr. Richard Gibbons

The SS102fm team is joined this week by Fr. Richard Gibbons to talk about the renewal being undertaken at the National Shrine at Knock under the title "Witness to Hope". We have a lively and enjoyable interview with Fr. Richard discussing the various approaches being taken to re-invigorating the shrine and contributing to the on going renewal of the church in Ireland.

The renewal at Knock is focused around faith formation and renewal; promotion of the Shrine and refurbishment of the basilica (the first major one since it was built in 1976) and Fr. Richard fills us in on what has been accomplished to date and the plans for the future including up coming events such as the National Grandparents Pilgrimage (Sept 13th) and the National Eucharistic Congress (September 26th) plus the re-dedication of the basilica in 2016 (date tbc).

You can listen to the interview with Fr Richard extracted from the main programme HERE.

We previously posted an interview/article with Fr Richard from the Irish Catholic about the "Witness to Hope" programme HERE.

You can visit the Knock Shrine website here to see up and coming events, to find out more about the "Witness to Hope" programme and to join in the ceremonies at the shrine online HERE.

You can follow Knock Shrine online at their Facebook page and also their Twitter Account (@knockshrine)

Gospel - Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23

Tissot - Insidious questions of the Pharisees and Herodians

"Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, ²they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. ³(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; ⁴and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) ⁵So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ⁶He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their lips,but their hearts are far from me;
⁷in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.’

⁸You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”
¹⁴Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: ¹⁵there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.” ²¹For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, ²²adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. ²³All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Reflections on this weeks gospel:

Sunday Reflections
Centre for Liturgy
Word on Fire

Liturgical odds & ends

Liturgy of the Hours - psalter week 2; 22nd week in ordinary time

Saints of the Week

August 31st - St Aidan of Lindisfarne also St Joseph of Arimathea & Nicodemus
September 1st - St Giles
September 2nd - Blessed John Francis Burté and Companions
September 3rd - St Gregory the Great
September 4th - St Rose of Viterbo
September 5th - Bl Teresa of Calcutta