St Mary’s parish celebrate Pope’s visit

ST Mary’s Parish will celebrate the opening of the World Meeting of Families and the visit of Pope Francis to Ireland with a special evening on Tuesday August 21st.

The Holy Family Youth Group will perform their original drama ‘Pope Francis’ at Holy Family Church at 7pm, before a procession to St Mary’s Church will take place at 7.45pm.

Choirs from St Mary’s parish churches will be joined by singers from the Holy Family and Layton/Mornington parishes for Evening Prayer at 8.30pm. Refreshments will be served in St Mary’s Pastoral Centre at 9.15pm.

Parishioners from all neighbouring parishes are invited to Drogheda on the night to mark the beginning of the WMOF and look ahead to the Papal visit.

Pope Francis will visit Ireland on August 25th and 26th where he will meet President Michael D Higgins and host the feast of families at Croke Park before travelling to Knock the following day where he will visit the Knock Shrine.

He will end his visit by saying mass at Phoenix Park that afternoon. Half a million tickets for the mass have been sold.