Saint Peters Parish, Drogheda

St Peter's Parish, Drogheda

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WELCOME

On behalf of our Parish Team, Parish Pastoral Council and Parishioners, I welcome you to our Parish Website.

I hope that you enjoy browsing our website and please feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions.

Thank you for visiting and may God Bless you.

St Peter's Church

West Street, Drogheda.

Our Lady of Lourdes Church

Hardman's Gardens, Drogheda.

Click on picture to the left to go to the new Oliver Plunkett website

Click on the logo above to view our Parish Centre website

ABOUT

PRIESTS

Rt Rev Monsignor James Carroll, PP, VF

Parochial House, 9 Fair Street, Drogheda

Tel: (041) 983 8537 Fax: (041) 984 1351

Rev Sean Ryan, SMA, CC

Rev Piotr Delimat, CC (Email: pieetro_wp.pl)

St Peter's Presbytery, 10 Fair Street, Drogheda

Tel: (041) 983 8239

Very Rev Canon Patrick McDonnell, PE, AP

Very Rev Martin Kenny

Rev Emlyn McGinn

(Email: emlynmcginn_yahoo.com)

Our Lady of Lourdes Presbytery, Hardmans Gardens, Drogheda

Tel: (041) 983 1899

Parish office

Parochial House

9 Fair Street

Drogheda

Co. Louth

stpetersadmin1_eircom.net

Tel: (041) 983 8537

Fax: (041) 984 1351

Enquiries for Baptismal and Confirmation Certificates please contact our Sacristan in St Peter's Church Sacristy (041) 984 5355, between 8.00am - 1.00pm weekdays.

SERVICES

St Peter's Church

West Street (1881)

(Memorial Church of St Oliver Plunkett)

Masses

Saturday: 6.15 pm (Vigil)

Sunday: 8.00 am, 11.00 am, 12.15 pm

Holydays Mass times vary

Weekdays 8.40 am, 10.30 am (Mon-Fri)

Confessions

Wed, Thu, Sat 12.30 pm - 1.30 pm

Sat 5.45 pm

Devotions

Perpetual Novena Novena in honour of St Anthony, Padua,Tuesdays at 10.30 am and 7.30 pm; St Oliver Plunkett Mass - last Sat of month at 6.15 pm; Mass in honour of the Sacred Heart (Pioneer Association) 1st Fri of month at 10.30 am

Baptisms

Sunday 12.45 pm by arrangement

Sacristan Ms Ann Phillips,

Tel (041) 984 5355

Our Lady of Lourdes Church Hardman's Gardens (1958)

Masses

Saturday: 7.30 pm (Vigil)

Sunday: 9.30am, 10.30am, 12.00 noon

Holydays Mass times vary

Weekdays: 10.00 am (Mon-Fri)

1st Friday: 7.30 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet

Confessions

Saturday 7.00 pm - 7.30 pm

Devotions

Perpetual Novena in honour of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Mon at 7.30 pm

Baptisms

Sunday 1.00 pm by arrangement

Sacristan Mr Sean Walshe,

Tel (041) 983 1899

Cottage Hospital, Scarlet St.

Mass Sunday 10.30 am

CLIENTS

Church of St Peter

CONTACT US

Presentation NS, Ballymakenny Road - Principal: Marian Matthews; Girls, 365 pupils; Tel (041) 983 7119

Scoil Aonghusa NS, Sunday's Gate -Principal: Edel Ní Bhroin; Co-ed, 201 pupils; Tel (041) 983 2531

St Brigid's NS, Bóthar Brugha - Principal: Ms Jean McFadden; Girls, 400 pupils; Tel (041) 983 7133

St Joseph's NS, Sunday's Gate - Principal: Paul Hussey; Boys 425 pupils; Tel (041) 983 3620

St Patrick's NS, Bóthar Brugha - Principal: Rose Sullivan; Boys, 454 pupils; Tel (041) 983 2800

St Ita's Special School, Crushrod Avenue - Principal: Michael Moley; Co-ed, 77 pupils; Tel (041) 983 1303

Scoil Oilibhear Naofa NS, Ballymakenny Road - Principal: Catherine Tiernan-Bell Co-ed, Tel (086) 8400489

CBS Secondary School, Newfoundwell Road - Principal: David Madden; Boys, 654 students; Tel (041) 983 7232

Our Lady's College, Greenhills - Principal: Geraldine Mulvihill; Sisters on Staff: Sr Colette McCloskey, PBVM, Sr Agnes Byrne, PBVM; Girls, 900 students; Tel (041) 983 1786

Drogheda Institute of Further Education - Co-ed, Post Leaving Cert, 725 students; Tel (041) 983 7105

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St Peter's Parish Bulletin

Please click on the attached PDF file to view the parish newsletter

1st January 2012.pdf

8th JANUARY.pdf

St Oliver Plunkett

16th January.pdf

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New School in North Drogheda

Applications for enrolment are now being accepted

The Education Minister has recently approved a new primary school under the patronage of the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh. It will be a co-educational school (girls and boys). The start-up will be on 1st September 2010 with junior infants only. The proposed location is on the Ballymakenny Road, and it will be called Scoil Oilibhear Naofa.

The school is being established as a result of local consultation and is an expression of the ongoing commitment of the Archdiocese of Armagh to Catholic education in North Drogheda.

Applications for enrolment are now being accepted. The application form can be downloaded here by clicking on the Word file.

Please forward completed application forms to: The Principal, Ms Catherine Tiernan-Bell, Scoil Oilibhear Naofa, Ballymakenny Road, Drogheda, Co Louth.

Application Form SON.doc

Please click on the attached Word file to view and download school application form.

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Christmas Mass Times

Confessions

Penance service - Monday 19th December

Our Lady of Lourdes Church: 7.30pm

Confessions Saturday 24th December

St Peters Church: 12 noon 3.00pm

Our Lady of Lourdes Church: 12 noon 1.00pm

and 4.00pm 6.00pm

Daily Masses

26th December - 31st December

St Peters Church: 10.30am

Our Lady of Lourdes Church: 11.00am

Sunday Mass 1st January - New Years Day

St Peters Church: Vigil 6.15pm (Sat).

8.00am, 11.00am and 12.15pm

Our Lady of Lourdes Church: Vigil 7.30pm (Sat)

9.30am, 10.30am and 12 noon

Masses

Christmas Eve Sat Morning

St Peters Church: 8.40am and 10.30am

Our Lady of Lourdes Church: 10.00am

First Mass of Christmas Sat 24th December

St Peters Church: 8.30pm

Our Lady of Lourdes Church: 6.30pm and 9.00pm

Christmas Day Sunday 25th December

St Peters Church: 8.00am, 11.00am and 12.15pm

Our Lady of Lourdes Church: 9.30am, 10.30am and 12 noon

St Stephens Day - Monday 26th December

St Peters Church: 10.30am

Our Lady of Lourdes Church: 11.00am including Novena

Page 14 HISTORY OF SAINT PETER'S CHURCHThe Memorial Church which is neo-Gothic in style measures 161 feet in its extreme length the width across the aisles 65 feet and 101 feet across the transepts. The height to the pex of the nave roof is 80 feet and 222 feet to the vane of the spire. The walls and exterior dressings are of local limestone from the nearby quarries of Sheephouse, whose renowned stone-cutters took pride of place in the procession, to the ceremony of laying the foundation stone. True to its Gothic design the Church is complete with aisles, trancepts, side chapels, two external porches, baptistry and organ gallery.Outside it is crowned by a beautiful and highly ornate tower and spire 222 feet high at he south western corner, with lesser towers, pinnacles and statues which serve to harmonise and enrich the general effect. The principal statues are of St. Peter and of St. Oliver Plunkett, the latter carved in Portland stone by a Dublin sculptor from a portrait in oils of the Saint, painted shortly before his execution. There are three entrances from the front and flanking the central entrance are two marble statues, St. Jospeh on the right andthe Blessed Virgin on the left. Immediately over the front entrance again is afinely sculpted panel depicting Christ giving the keys to St. Peter. Above the main door is a large and exquisitely designed rose window, and two similar ones, said to have been part of the older Church are set directly opposite each other in the transept gables.The chancel is one of the most striking and beautiful features of the Church. It is lighted by a series of windows depicting the chief events in the life of St. Peter. Underneath these windows there are a series of artistic panels. The groined roof of the chancel is most ornate and artistic, each panel being filled with a medallion. The High Altar which s the central focus of the Church is a creation in pure Carera marble. The exquisitely carved sculpture beneath the altar table depicts in finest detail thescene at the last Supper. In the panel on the left above the altar table is a carving of the Nativity and on the right one of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. Four side altars, each a work of art of its kind go to provide each chapel with its crowning ornament. To the immediate right of the High Altar is a side altar dedicated to the Holy Soul. The beautiful carving in marble beneath this altar is a reproduction of The Dead Christ by he eminent Irish sculptor John Hogan. This work was originally set beneath the High Altar until the last Supper was commissioned by Archdeacon Segrave. Further to the right is the altar dedicated to the Sacred Heart, surmounted by a fine mural of The Ascension of Our Lord.Again to the immediate left of the High Altar, is another side altar erected by theImmaculate Conception Sodality to the memory of Father Finegan, their spiritualdirector from 1902-1910. Beneath this altar is a carving of the Annunciation scene.Further to the left is the Shrine of St. Oliver Plunkett, where that precious relic, the headof the Saint is venerated. On the arches supporting the organ gallery the Arms of theArchdiocese of Armagh and the Pontifical Arms are displayed. A tine mural of theAnnunciation covers the inside wall over the left side entrance while a similar muraldepicting the Baptism of Christ covers the wall above the Baptistry.All the interior dressings are of both stone and polished Aberdeen granite. The greatarches in the nave rest on pillars of the latter stone with carved and decorated capitals inBath stone and the intersections of the arches are surmounted by carved stone busts.Four of these, the larger ones nearer the High Altar are identified. These are the figuresgracing the arch intersections on either side of the recesses framing the rose windowsin the transept gables. On the left the bust on the arch nearest the High Altar is that ofPope Leo XIII who was the reigning Pontiff when the Church was founded. The secondfigure on this side is Primate McGettigan who officiated at the laying of the foundationstone. On the top right hand side the figure holding the crozier is Cardinal Logue whopresided over the consecration ceremony. The second figure on this side, shownholding a model of a Church is Monsignor Murphy, the inspiration for and the reveredfounder of this magnificient Church.It is claimed that irrespective of the many lesser lights and small windows toonumerous to mention set in the belfry, the towers and the spires, the Church is lightedwith no less than forty-two large stained glass windows.All the artistic work in the Chancel and side chapels was carried out by MonsieurGustavius Linthout & Son of Bruges in Belgium and the painting of the Church by theDownes Brothers of Peter Street Drogheda.

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St Peters Parish, Drogheda; Tel: (041) 983 8537 Website updated: July 2011

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