A year of prayer will be launched this Sunday from one of the diocese's best known places of prayer
Bishop Fintan will lead the pilgrimage to Gougane Barra, on Sunday October 6th and will preside at Mass at 3pm at the Oratory.
Rosary will precede the Mass at 2.30pm.
During the Mass Bishop Fintan Gavin will read a new pastoral message which he is publishing to the entire Diocese of Cork and Ross. It will also be read at all Masses throughout the diocese on the weekend.
Central to the bishop's message is an invitation for everyone in the diocese to begin a year of prayer, listening and discernment asking the Holy Spirit to guide the Church in times of extraordinary change.
Bishop Fintan will also launch a prayer which he is asking everyone to pray during the year.
The invitational message and the prayer will both be available at Gougane Barra for people to take home.
St. Finbarr's Oratory, Gougane Barra
