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Mass Times

SS Peter and Paul Cathedral

Monday - Friday 7.40am, 11.00am, 7.30pm
Saturday 11.00am, 6.30pm
Sunday 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:30am
Church Holidays See current newsletter


Mass is also celebrated in the Poor Clare’s Monastery at 7.45am daily. Worship time for the Church of Ireland in Ennis is on Sunday mornings at 11.30am in St. Columba's Church, Bindon Street, Ennis

St Joseph's Church

Monday – Friday 10.30am
Saturday 10.30am, 7.00pm
Sunday 10am, 11.45am

Christ the King (Críost Rí)

Monday - Friday 9.30am
Sunday 11.00am

Franciscan Friary

Monday to Friday 10.00am followed by Rosary
Tuesday 10.00am (Novena to St. Anthony)
Saturday 10.00am (Our Lady's Devotion)
7.30pm Vigil Mass
Sunday 10.30am


The Secular Franciscan Order (SFO) have prayers at 9.40a.m. in the Franciscan Friary on the 1st Wednesday of every month.

Notices

We Pray for Pope Francis

February 18, 2025
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis’ health has deteriorated, and he has been diagnosed with a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection. Recent medical tests indicate a complex clinical condition, necessitating an extended hospital stay for the 88-year-old Pontiff in Rome.
Let us unite in prayer for his health and recovery, entrusting him to…

St. Anthony Brief Magazine

February 14, 2025

The latest edition of St Anthony Brief Magazine is available for sale in both the Cathedral and Friary. Your €2 supports the work of the Franciscan Friars and the magazine helps spread devotion to St. Anthony.


Lourdes 2025

February 11, 2025

The Lourdes pilgrimage season for 2025 was launched on Tuesday 11th February, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
In this year of the Jubilee of Hope there will be three direct flights from Shannon from the Diocese:
25th June: Diocesan Pilgrimage
24th September: Franciscan Pilgrimage
29th September: Autumn Diocesan Pilgrimage


Petitions Delivered to Lourdes

February 8, 2025

Fr Tom, Pilgrimage Director, and Mary Freeman, Pilgrimage Secretary of Killaloe Diocese, delivered all petitions collected at the Lourdes Novena in Ennis Cathedral this week, to the Grotto in Lourdes this morning. They are representing the Killaloe Diocese at the International Gathering of Pilgrimages for the World Day of the Sick in this year of…


World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life

February 2, 2025

64 Religious Women and Men from 11 different Religious Congregations and communities joined Bishop Fintan for the 11.30am Mass on Sunday 2nd February, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, and a Day of Prayer for all in Religious Life.
It was an opportunity to pray together and to express gratitude to the…


Making St. Brigid’s Crosses

January 31, 2025

This Saturday we celebrate the Feast of St Brigid. The great tradition of making St Brigid’s Cross making is alive and well in Ennis. For the past three evenings, a team of volunteers have gathered to make Crosses which are available for sale this weekend at all masses and in both the Friary and Parish…


Centenary Celebrations for John!

January 30, 2025

We congratulate John Lynch, St Michael’s Villas, who celebrates his 100th birthday on Thursday 30th January.
John is a proud Clarecastle man born into the Lynch family in Lissane, Clarecastle, he comes from a family of 15, with four siblings, three sisters and one brother, all still living in Clare. John married Kitty Slattery,…


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Events

They Died on This Day

Claire O'Dea
2019
Cyril Lane
2015