BARRIERS | FACE MASKS | FACE SHIELDS | HAND SANITISERS | NO TOUCH CANDELABRA | SANITISING STATIONS Abbey Bookshop are keen to help our customers and support them in any way possible during this difficult time of the pandemic. As a church supplies specialist, we have started to add a …
St. Augustine’s Church and Shop reopening Monday 8th June Opening times from 11.00am – 3.30pm Monday – Saturday. We look forward to meeting you all again. Thank you for your prayers and support. Augustinian Community. (Opening times subject to change at short notice)
Shipping of all orders temporarily suspended! Our utmost priority at this time of uncertainty remains the health, safety and well-being of our staff, customers and the wider community. Therefore, we have taken the decision to temporarily suspend the packing and shipment of all orders from our online shop. You can …
Pope Francis has appointed Francesca Di Giovanni, a lay woman from Italy, as a senior diplomat in the Secretariat of State, the Vatican’s diplomatic and administrative body. Ms Di Giovanni will be under-secretary in a division known as the Section for Relations with States, which essentially means she will be …
We are closed Christmas Eve @ 2:30 Reopen on Saturday 28th December 10 – 4:30 Reopen Monday 30th December and Tuesday 31st December at normal hours Closed New Years Day and back Thursday 2nd January at normal times We would like to wish all our customers a Very Happy Christmas …
Delegates at a recent congress in Rome for Vocations Directors have learned that there is a slow but gradual rise in the number of young people entering into religious life across Europe. However, Pope Francis who addressed the meeting, warned participants not to avoid using the word ‘vocation’, noting that …
Pope Francis is recommending that people leave behind all sorts of useless baggage to rediscover what really matters in life. He also advises people to avoid “empty chatter”. The Pope expressed his reflections as he celebrated New Year’s Day Mass in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. His advice also included …
Catholic Schools Week is an annual all-Ireland celebration which invites schools nationwide to give expression in an exceptional way to the ethos of Catholic education. This year’s theme, ‘Catholic schools: Learning with Pope Francis to care for our common home’ has been informed by the writing of Pope Francis in …
Eleven-year-old Tony Foley has appealed for people to attend Mass for eight Sundays to Christmas in honour of his father and to remember both the famed player and other deceased family and friends. The initiative launched by the son of Munster legend Anthony ‘Axel’ Foley to get people back to Mass …
Pope Francis has a prodigious, and deeply admirable, work ethic, but an article in Irish Catholic newspaper questions why the pope might want to consider following the Italian lead for ferragosto and taking a break in mid-August. Generally speaking, Rome goes into near-total hibernation around the month of August; the …