Readers required for:

• the 12.30 pm Mass in the Cathedral during September

• the 6 pm Mass in the Cathedral in November

Please contact the Parish Office if a reader is available.

St Paul’s Church only:

Please note there will be no 9:15 a.m. Mass during August.

It will resume on Monday, 31st August after the summer break.

We honor Mary, who received [God's] Word in her Immaculate Heart and "found worthy to conceive [Jesus] in her virgin’s womb and, giving birth to the Creator, she nurtured the beginnings of the Church". Standing beside the Cross, Mary "received the testament of divine love and took to herself as sons and daughters".

Throughout August, the Church celebrates a number of beautiful Marian feasts.

• 15 August - The Solemnity of the Assumption proclaims our Christian hope that where Mary has gone, we are called to follow.

• 17 August - Here in Ireland, we also celebrate Our Lady of Knock remembering Mary's silent but powerful apparition at Knock, where she continues to draw countless pilgrims to prayer and hope.

• 22 August - we celebrate the Queenship of Mary

Pope Leo XIV's Prayer Intention for August: For Evangelization in the City.

He invites us to pray: "Let us pray that in large cities, often marked by anonymity and loneliness, we find new ways to proclaim the Gospel, dis covering creative paths to build community".

While we may think first of the world's great cities, the same challenge exists in our own town of Mullingar and other urban centres across Ireland.