If you wish to register your child for FIRST HOLY COMMUNION in Fermoy in 2025 please read this letter and fill out the online APPLICATION form below.
Dates of First Holy Communion Ceremonies: [3.5.25 Bishop Murphy] [3.5.25 Clondulane in Queen of Peace church] [10.5.25 Gaelscoil] [10.5.25 Araglen] [17.5.25 St Martin’s Kilworth] [17.5.25 Presentation] [24.5.25 Grange] [24.5.25 St Joseph’s in Queen of Peace church]. Fermoy schools will use St Patrick’s church, Fermoy, except for those indicated. Kilworth and Araglen schools will use their own local churches. Time: provisionally at 11am.
Dates of First Confession Ceremonies:
Monday 10th February, Gaelscoil, St Patrick’s Church
Tuesday 11th February, Araglen church
Wednesday 12th February, St Joseph’s NS and Clondulane NS, together, in St Patrick’s Church
Thursday 13th February, Kilworth Church
Thursday 13th February, Presentation NS in St Patrick’s Church
Tuesday 18th February, Grange NS, St Patrick’s Church
Wednesday 19th February, Bishop Murphy NS in St Patrick’s Church
The task of preparing your child for receiving these sacraments is divided in the following three ways:
- You the parents
- The child’s school teachers
- The parish, as led by the clergy
The role of the school teacher (No. 2 above) is ongoing and we are grateful to our schools for the support that they give. However, in order that No. 1 (the role of the parent) and No. 3 (the role of the parish) are aided, Fermoy Parish is now running PREPARATORY SESSIONS that we would like you and your child to engage with. Such a course was delivered for the last three years and was successful.
Details of Preparatory Sessions:
- Sunday 10th Nov: ICON SUNDAY NUMBER 1 at any of our churches
- Monday 11th Nov at Fermoy Community Youth Centre, Ashe Quay, Fermoy (P61 TK73) 7.30pm
- Sunday 8th Dec: ICON SUNDAY NUMBER 2 at any of our churches
- Monday 9th Dec at Fermoy Community Youth Centre, Ashe Quay, Fermoy (P61 TK73) 7.30pm
- Sunday 19th Jan: ICON SUNDAY NUMBER 3 at any of our churches
- Monday 20th Jan at Fermoy Community Youth Centre, Ashe Quay, Fermoy (P61 TK73) 7.30pm
- Sunday 9th Mar: ICON SUNDAY NUMBER 4 at any of our churches
- Monday 10th Mar at Fermoy Community Youth Centre, Ashe Quay, Fermoy (P61 TK73) 7.30pm
- Monday 28th April at 7:30pm (All Schools in Fermoy/Kilworth/Araglen will do an in-church session at St Patrick’s Church Fermoy….everyone together in the same church)
ICON SUNDAY: When you attend Mass in any of the churches in Fermoy/Kilworth/ Araglen on that Sunday morning (or vigil the evening before) you will collect a gift for your child, a beautiful icon. There will be a set of 4 icons given as gifts over the four Sundays.
In the Youth Centre sessions, we will provide you, the parents, with instruction and guidelines related to your child’s preparation for the sacraments.
This COURSE also involves equipping you with a beautifully illustrated book called “My First Holy Communion” – see photos below – which will help you, as parent(s), to engage in “home-activity” with your child between the preparatory sessions and in preparation for the sacraments. We will also supply a parent guidebook. We will deliver the materials to you when you attend the Monday 11th Nov (see table above). The overall cost of the programme is 10 Euro, covering all materials which you may bring to the first Youth Centre session (see date above).
Those baptised outside of Fermoy/Kilworth/Araglen will need to contact the parish of baptism and request a baptismal certificate. Please post a copy of this certificate to Fermoy Parish Centre, Monument Hill, Fermoy, Co Cork. P61PT68. If this applies to you, please go about this process straight away.
Yours in Christ, Frs Boyle, Roche, Biletskyy, Rev McCarthy.
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