Notices

Carysfort National School – Enrolments

CARYSFORT NATIONAL SCHOOL – ENROLMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2025

 

Our Parish School, Carysfort National School, will be accepting applications for entry to Junior Infants in September 2025 from Tuesday next, 1st October 2024. Closing date for receipt of Junior Infant applications is 15th November 2024.   APPLICATION FORMS MAY BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE SCHOOL WEBSITE www.carysfortns.ie,…


A Safe and Welcoming Church for Children and Vulnerable Adults

A Safe and Welcoming Church for Children and Vulnerable Adults.

This year Archbishop Farrell has asked us to focus on all the things we do to make our parish a safe and welcoming place for children and vulnerable adults.  The new child safeguarding policy for the Catholic Church in Ireland, launched in June of this…


Dates for your Diary.

Dates for your Diary.

 

  • Blessing of Schoolbags 21st/22nd September.

 

  • Harvest Thanksgiving 5th/6th October.

 

  • Mission Sunday and Home and Away Weekend 19th /20th October.

 

  • Annual Mass of Remembrance 1st November.

Crosscare Weekend 14th/15th September, 2024.

This weekend, September 14th, and 15th, Crosscare will hold its Annual Appeal for those most in need. This will replace the Share collection at all Masses. Crosscare delivers a wide range of homeless, youth, and food poverty support to people at various stages of poverty or marginalisation. Regrettably, the demand for these vital services continues…


Parish Finance Report for 2022

PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, BLACKROCK.

FINANCE REPORT 2022

PARISH FUNDS

  • Firstly, thank you all so much for your continued support of the Parish. Our Income from contributions and donations continues to decline due to the changing demographics of our Parish.
  • Our Expenses increased significantly in 2022 mostly due to the carrying out…


Parish Partnership Mass Times

The following are the Mass times in our Parish Partnership, we have also included Booterstown for your convenience.


Parish Privacy Notice.

We have been advised by the Archdiocese that the diocesan privacy notice has been updated.

A copy can be viewed by clicking on the following link:

Updated Privacy Notice 27 March 2023.


Blessing of Schoolbags

Blessing of Schoolbags Prayer

Lord, we thank you for your goodness to all your children.

Be with these children throughout this new school year.

May your blessing be upon these schoolbags,

Which the children will carry to and from school each day.

 

Watch over the children in their coming and their going;

Keep them…


Feast of St. John the Baptist.

Prayer to St. John the Baptist.

Oh God, you gave St. Elizabeth, in her
old age, The gift of a son, St. John the Baptist,
who would prepare the way for Jesus to begin
His Ministry here on earth.

Lord, fill your people with the joy of possessing
graces like those…