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Preparations are under way for the annual National Grandparents Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine on Sunday September 11. Upwards of 15,000 pilgrims are expected to Knock on one of the shrine’s busiest days of the year. Archbishop Michael Neary from Tuam will celebrate Mass at 3pm, which will be preceded by the Anointing of the Sick at 2pm and followed by the Rosary.

A chance meeting for one half of the celebrity ‘Cheeky Girls’ twins who flew into Ireland West Airport Knock recently has resulted in a new love affair.

Approximately 150 people turned up at Knock this week in the hope of witnessing a new miraculous apparation after self-proclaimed visionary Joe Coleman forecast another apparation, this time not of Our Lady, but Jesus Christ.

A Catholic summer festival for people aged from 18 to 35 will take place from June 25 to June 27 in Knock Shrine.

Knock Summer Festival will take place from June 25 to 27. The festival will see young people between the ages of 18 and 35 from every diocese in Ireland explore, question, ignite, and celebrate their faith.

An inspirational 95-year-old great-grandfather, who became national news at the weekend by qualifying for the finals of a major international fishing competition, has been invited as a guest of honour at a special Grandparents Pilgrimage in Knock Shrine.

If any reader thought that spirituality was a dying aspiration of the Irish people, they might recall the 20,000 or so who climbed Croagh Patrick on the last Sunday of July, or go to Knock, Co Mayo, on August 15, the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Assumed into Heaven, to see thousands of people, many in family groups, happily attending Mass, saying the Stations of the Cross, eating ice-cream and chips, thoroughly enjoying the day out.

Week II

An unusual feature of the apparition at Knock on August 21 1879, was that it was silent. On all other occasions when the Virgin Mary has appeared, a verbal message was imparted to the visionaries. It was usually an exhortation to pray. But the Knock vision, consisting of Mary, St Joseph, St John the Evangelist, and other religious images, was motionless. There was no verbal message.