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Ossory
May 27, 2008 13:11:06 GMT
Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 27, 2008 13:11:06 GMT
Ossory is a diocese with a Catholic population of approximately 78,000 in 42 parishes served by 106 priests, including religious. It covers most of Co Kilkenny, with parishes in Laois and Offaly. Its official website is: www.ossory.ie/. Bishop Laurence Forristal was Bishop of Ossory between 1981 and 2007, after having been an Auxilliary Bishop of Dublin for two years. He was succeeded by Bishop Seamus Freeman, SAC, a former Superior General of the Pallotine Fathers. There is no history of SSPX activity in the Ossory Diocese. It is known that Bishop Forristal was not receptive to suggestions that an indult Mass be celebrated in his diocese, but it is unknown to what extent Catholics in the Diocese sought one. Thus, the first extraordinary form Mass was offered in the diocese after Mgr Freeman took office in the Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny City in February this year (2008). Ossory was named with Clonfert, Cloyne, Dromore and Kerry as the five dioceses which had not allowed a traditional Mass yet in 2006. Dromore and Kerry permitted the Mass before Ossory, but in February, Cloyne and Clonfert still had yet to allow the Mass. Since then, Mass was celebrated in Cloyne.
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Ossory
Jun 24, 2008 10:36:02 GMT
Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jun 24, 2008 10:36:02 GMT
Does anyone know of a follow up Mass in Kilkenny?
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Ossory
Jul 5, 2008 21:05:36 GMT
Post by eircomnet on Jul 5, 2008 21:05:36 GMT
I am aware that the group that arranged the February Mass are actively pursuing another once-off mass, perhaps in another church. All options are being considered and there should be some action soon.
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Ossory
Jul 17, 2008 14:14:55 GMT
Post by Askel McThurkill on Jul 17, 2008 14:14:55 GMT
Any idea when or where?
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Ossory
Jul 18, 2008 0:39:40 GMT
Post by eircomnet on Jul 18, 2008 0:39:40 GMT
When it comes to fruition we'll be happy to let you know.
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Ossory
Nov 25, 2008 12:08:02 GMT
Post by Askel McThurkill on Nov 25, 2008 12:08:02 GMT
Any developments, eircomnet?
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Ossory
Nov 27, 2008 12:24:51 GMT
Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Nov 27, 2008 12:24:51 GMT
I have only heard rumours of developments.
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Ossory
Feb 16, 2009 1:08:27 GMT
Post by eircomnet on Feb 16, 2009 1:08:27 GMT
Sorry for delay in replying folks but I am reliably informed that Bishop Freeman has promised to supply a priest & church for that purpose in the near future. I will report when further details come to my attention.
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Ossory
Feb 16, 2009 12:28:14 GMT
Post by guillaume on Feb 16, 2009 12:28:14 GMT
Sorry for delay in replying folks but I am reliably informed that Bishop Freeman has promised to supply a priest & church for that purpose in the near future. I will report when further details come to my attention. That is a very good new indeed, if the Bp keeps his promise ! Does that mean that Kilkenny will have a TLM on a regular basis, say Sunday and holy days, at least ? And is it for KK city ?
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Ossory
Feb 16, 2009 15:54:51 GMT
Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Feb 16, 2009 15:54:51 GMT
Hold your horses, Guillaume and wait and see what the bishop does.
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Ossory
Feb 17, 2009 1:23:20 GMT
Post by monkeyman on Feb 17, 2009 1:23:20 GMT
Sorry for delay in replying folks but I am reliably informed that Bishop Freeman has promised to supply a priest & church for that purpose in the near future. I will report when further details come to my attention. Wow! well God bless him if he follows through on his promise.
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Ossory
Apr 13, 2009 20:24:50 GMT
Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Apr 13, 2009 20:24:50 GMT
Have we heard anything further from Bishop Freeman?
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Ossory
Apr 14, 2009 9:24:46 GMT
Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Apr 14, 2009 9:24:46 GMT
Once again, rumours are in generation in Kilkenny too, as much as in Down (see my post in Dromore). I have heard the name of an Ossory priest, which I am not prepared to reveal publicly, who has been practicing the rubrics. I don't know where in the diocese he is about to say it, but I do know there are a lively group of people in Kilkenny interested in the Mass and that they have rented buses to go to Newbridge and Dublin over the past few months.
Ossory priests seem to be very insular, though. The one public EF Mass in the diocese was said by Father Gerard Deighan of the Archdiocese of Dublin and Dublin Chaplaincy in the Capuchins in Kilkenny City. I hear the diocesan priests complained he was an outsider. This is incredibly petty. Out of diocese priests have said Mass all over Ireland - Father Pillon (Scranton Pennsylvania) in Tuam, Father Lebocq (a French ICRSS priest) in Limerick and Father Leworthy (an Australian FSSP priest) in Newbridge before we go anywhere else we go elsewhere. Father Deighan said Masses in both Galway and Belfast without a problem. Ossory is the only place I know that the fact the priest who said a Mass was from another Irish diocese was an issue. And this in a diocese where Bishop Freeman is a Tipperary Pallotine and Bishop Forristal, though from Kilkenny, was a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin.
Having said all that, in normal circumstances it is better to have a local diocesan priest or a religious based in the diocese long term to say regular Masses there.
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Ossory
Jun 22, 2009 21:59:36 GMT
Post by Michael O'Donovan on Jun 22, 2009 21:59:36 GMT
There is to be a weekly Sunday Mass at 5pm in St Patrick's Church, Kilkenny city, starting on July 5th. The celebrant will be Fr O'Toole of Kilmacow.
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Ossory
Jun 23, 2009 14:58:27 GMT
Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jun 23, 2009 14:58:27 GMT
This is the most significant development in Ireland since the motu proprio - a new every Sunday Mass in a centre of significant population.
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