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A celebratory mass will be held on Tuesday next, September 7 in Galway Cathedral at 7:30pm to mark the beginning of the centenary of the Legion of Mary. The Mass will be presided by Most Rev. Brendan Kelly. All friends of the Legion past and present are welcome to attend with seating on a first come first served basis. The mass will also be viewable online at www.galwaycathedral.ie

Volunteer applications are now open for Galway International Arts Festival, which this year runs from August 28 to September 18.

A new parish administrator has been appointed to St Mary’s parish in Athlone it has been confirmed in diocesan appointments announced by the Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, Francis Duffy this past weekend.

Plato’s dialogue Timaeus has bequeathed to us a famous phrase, eik?s muthos or “likely story.” Today we use the idiom “a likely story” to dismiss what we are told as a “tall tale.” But, here in the 4th century BC, the phrase refers to an articulation of possibility or a plausible report like a myth or a fable that offers an explanation for some mystery by way of stories and images. It makes perfect sense this phrase appears prominently in the Timaeus, for that dialogue is a story about the formation of the universe; of course, there are no eyewitnesses to that event to whom we can turn for a description.

On a day when Moycullen celebrated the arrival of its Olympic medal into the parish, it had a second joyous event when local man John Gerard Action was ordaind a priest at Galway Cathedral.

Moycullen man John Gerard Acton will be ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Brendan Kelly in Galway Cathedral on Sunday, August 1, 2021 at 3pm.

The Galway Film Fleadh returns from Tuesday July 20 to Sunday 25, both in-person and online, and boasts a programme of 11 world premieres, 45 new films, and more than 100 shorts.

The Annual National Pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick or ‘Reek Sunday’ has been extended to incorporate the whole month of July. Those who wish to fulfil the ‘Reek Sunday’ obligations can do so from Wednesday to Saturday each week during July.

“MY BRILLIANT friend traces where I should end and where I should begin, and he touches me with all the need and the want that goes on between us.”

After months of lockdown, Knock Shrine has reopened the iconic Basilica for daily Mass.