Relic of Mother Theresa coming to the Dominican on Sunday
THE relic of Mother Teresa continues its twomonth journey around Ireland with a stop at the Dominican Church in Drogheda on next Sunday, August 6th, with a special mass at 7.30pm.
It will remain in the Fr Meadthe Room on Monday, August 7th from 9.30am to 8pm and Tuesday from 9.30am to its departure to Dundalk at 4pm.
Sunday will be a special evening as acclaimed 17-year-old harpist Rosie Murphy will perform on an 1825 concert harp prior to and during the mass.
Thousands of people have venerated the relic since it was first received in Armagh in June.
The Knights of St Columbanus have worked with the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order established by Mother Teresa, to bring the relic to Ireland.
Members of the ONE will also lead a colour party on Sunday.
The relic itself is a spot of Mother Teresa’s blood on a muslin cloth and is regarded as a ‘first-class’ relic because it is a piece of the saint.
Mother Teresa died in September 1997 and was canonised in September 2016.
Those wishing to venerate the relic can kiss and make the sign of the cross with it, or touch it to any sick parts of their body.
Objects like Rosary beads and prayer cards can be touched to the relic, so becoming ‘ thirdclass relics’.