St. John The Baptist, Blackrock | Daily Mass available via webcam. | Sunday: 10.00 a.m. 12.00 noon (Cantor) Monday to Friday: 1. 05 p.m. Saturday: 6.30 p.m. Vigil Mass. (Cantor) Holy Week Timetable 2025 PASSION (PALM) SUNDAY 13th APRIL 6.30 p.m. Saturday 12th April Vigil Mass 10.00 a.m. Sunday Mass 12 noon Sunday Mass Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses HOLY WEEK - MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY 1.05 p.m. Daily Mass Confession available after Mass HOLY THURSDAY 17th APRIL 7.30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration at the Altar of Repose until 9.00 p.m. GOOD FRIDAY 18th APRIL (Day of Fast and Abstinence) 3.00 p.m. Celebration of Our Lord’s Passion Confession available afterwards HOLY SATURDAY 19th APRIL 7.30 p.m. Easter Vigil, Mass of The Resurrection EASTER SUNDAY 20th APRIL 10.00 a.m. Mass 12 noon Mass EASTER MONDAY 21st APRIL 11.00 a.m. Mass SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Confession will be available after 1.05 p.m. Mass during Holy Week and on Good Friday, or by request. Please contact the Parish Office on 01 288 2104 or email office@sjb.Ie |
The church is built on land given for the purpose by Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, whose summer residence was nearby Maretimo House. The building of the church commenced with the laying of a single foundation stone on the feast of St. John the Baptist, 24 June 1842. Building completed in 1845 and the church was dedicated on 14 September 1845 by the Most Rev. Dr. Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin.
The church was built as a replacement of the chapel of the Carmelite monastery on Sweetman’s Avenue. The old chapel was demolished and another chapel built in its place which can now be seen as part of the Blackrock Hospice.
The area the church occupies, first came under the parish of Monkstown. Later, after the reformation, the area came under the parish of Booterstown. It was 1922 when the parish of Blackrock came into being.