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THE PROGRAMME for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress, due to take place this June in Dublin, has been released.
Around 25,000 people are expected to visit Dublin for each day of the Congress.
The religious festival’s opening ceremony will be held on 10 June at the Royal Dublin Society in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, where most of the IEC’s events will be held.
The IEC’s ecumenical programme will begin the following day with special events involving the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin the Most Rev Michael Jackson, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Brother Alois Löser, Prior of Taizé.
The event’s organisers say that each day of the Congress has its own theme featuring cultural events and workshops which related to the overall theme of ‘The Eucharist: Communion with Christ and One Another”.
Around 80,000 people are expected to attended the closing event – mass in Croke Park on 17 June.
The Tánaiste said in the Dáil recently that the Irish bishops had extended an invitation to Pope Benedict to visit Ireland for the duration of the Congress and that the possibility of a visit is currently being considered by the Holy See. He added that if there is an indication of the Pope’s interest in travelling to Ireland, “the Government will be more than ready to issue a formal invitation and to welcome him to Ireland.”
The Congress is held every four years and involves liturgical events, workshops and discussions about the Eucharist in the Catholic Church. The first and last time that Dublin hosted the event was in 1932, during which thousands of people attended the final mass of the Congress at Phoenix Park. The last Congress was held in Quebec in 2008.
Tickets are available online in advance for the Congress and range from €95 for a seven-day pass to €30 for one day’s entry.
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Buy bread,buy bread,for the love of god by breaaad!!
@Dave Walsh: They probably are not able to bake it! Men or women!
@Dave Walsh: I swear to Brennans sliced pan if they shut down half the country due to this so called storm Ill crash my bike into the gates of the Dail. Fair enough the south, wesht and midlands might get a slap, but Leinster? Really?
No need to panic, as Storm Helene won’t hit Dublin. When it does panic stations will begin.
@Ossi Fritsche: So what ! Got a problem with that
@Ossi Fritsche: oh yes it will centre is going straight up the wast coast although looks like the one later in the week will be worse
@Ossi Fritsche: will you cop on ffs
Here we go again !
Calls for schools and shops to be closed probably for a bit of wind .
@rory burns: eh it’s a yellow warning..
@rory burns: eh no , it’s Yellow, for rain.
@Bilbo Baggins: is it gas when someone try’s to be a smart ass and ends up looking like a dope
@Bilbo Baggins: Better than a yellow snow warning for sure
@Bilbo Baggins: I thought it was purple rain.
To have to beg the government to implement extra homeless beds now instead of what happened last year shows how heartless our pseudo leaders really are
@Diddles Daffy: it does seem more of an article on iccch rather than the weather. It went from heavy rain in Mayo to complaining about homeless (real homeless this time) beds, the cause de l’année for journal clickers.
@Gulliver Foyle:
Oh do keep up Gulliver , the current journal ‘clicker cause’ is that Gemma whatshername is being deliberately ignored by the journal and all media outlets , in a conspiracy to keep her out of the presidency.
@Joan Ryan: Yes. I just assumed Gemma Doherty dropped out and I’m very disappointed that the journal would stoop that low. Nasty.
Is the headline not a bit dramatic? The nation is hardly ‘bracing’ itself!
@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: I secured the wheelie bins against the wall just in case. Does that counting as bracing?
@Rónán O’Suilleabháin: It doesn’t count unless you put a big heavy rock on top of them to stop the lids blowing open.
@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘Bracing’ is the Irish word for foreplay. Foreplay to any event which might create a bit of excitement.
Storm Ali is on its way Wensday,”supposed to be a “BIG ONE”YELLOW WARNING AND “NATION BRACES ITSELF FOR STORM HELENE”which isn’t even a storm anymore anyway,Jesus Christ tall about exaggeration of the highest smh
@Jan O’Sullivan: yip fed up with this sensationalist BS that seems to a regular here now and turning into redtop rag status
No sign of any warnings on the met.ie website. Must be a different Met Eireann so.
I hope RTE rollout Teresa Mannion for the weather forecast warning, she was brilliant when braving the the ferocious conditions of Storm Desmond in Galway as she was warning the citizens of Salthill and surrounding areas ‘not to make unnecessary journeys unless absolutely necessary’
Lads we shouldn’t be “bracing” it but more “embracing” it surely…and Irish Water should be “celebrating” it!!!
Journal – please stop the drama
Flood warning, what about the drought.?
Exactly. Not good enough. 5 hours before it hits they should be able to track where it’s going to land. Last night it was the Irish Sea. Now it’s mayo. Cmon met.ie
Brace yourself guys!
Is “High Intensity” the new way to say “heavy”?
I hope the weather doesn’t advesly effect the ploughing championship which would put a dampner on the farmer’s annual pilgrimage.
Nothing but an average autumn storm
It will hit the weat and nobody cares about that
@helen walsh: i don’t eat weat any more so I’m grand.
@Seriously stunned: I think she meant to say “the West !”
@Nucky: blame the iPad, seriously I am stunned by the assumption, presumably SS’s iPad meant Wheat, hope he chokes on his weat, tell us more about this new crop
@Seriously stunned: ignoramus
“As nation braces itself” .. Clickbait.
Time to prepare, so what’s being done ????
Lads we shouldn’t be “bracing” it but more “embracing” it surely…and Irish Water should be “celebracing” it!!!
I hope the downpour come to Dublin soon and keep at it for about a week . That’s about the amount of rain we need to get rid of this bloody hose pipe ban
Scare mongering?
Remember folks, don’t drink the yellow rain….
Status Yellow – Rainfall warning for Galway and Mayo
On Monday between midday and midnight 25 to 40 mm of rainfall are expected over west Galway and Co. Mayo with a risk of flooding in places
Issued: Sunday 16 September 2018 11:00
Updated: Sunday 16 September 2018 11:00
Valid from Monday 17 September 2018 12:00 to Monday 17 September 2018 23:59
Its the ‘Status Yellow Snow’ you have to worry about..
A fart would be more worrying lol
#prayfordublin
Is that hose pipe ban over with now ? We’ll have too much water now we’ll be hearing next off the government
Come on, these weather warnings are getting out of hand.
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