Nenagh Parish Supports Darkness Into Light Nenagh 2025

The countdown is on, dear friends. The time for the most important walk of the year is fast approaching!

Nenagh Parish is proud to throw open the doors of St Mary of the Rosary Church to those planning to participate in the wonderful Darkness Into Light walk in the early hours of this coming Saturday, 10 May 2025.

Walkers of all faith groups, and none, are so very welcome to call in and light a candle for those held close during these very special hours. The doors of St Mary of the Rosary Church will be open from 3.45am and we’d be delighted to see you.

Nenagh Parish Easter Schedule 2025

We are delighted to announce that we have finalised and double-checked the Nenagh Parish Easter Schedule for 2025. We are very much looking forward to celebrating this wonderful season with you all and hope you will make it along to some of our ceremonies.

We remind the community that our priests will participate in an unprecedented 42 ceremonies across the Odhrán Pastoral Area between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday. While they see this as an enormous privilege and a core part of their priestly duty, we do ask for your patience and prayers as they undertake what will be a rewarding but gruelling schedule.

Fr Lorcán’s New Book: Launch Invitation

On Friday 8th November @ 8:15pm in Scoil Mhuire, Portroe, our own Fr Lorcán Kenny will launch his children’s book, The Seven Animals That Saved the Baby Jesus. Lorcán extends a warm invitation to all in the St Odhrán Pastoral Area. All proceeds from the book will go to Roscrea SPCA – a most worthy cause. Copies of the book can be purchased in our Parish Office, parish shop in St Mary of the Rosary, Nenagh Bookshop, Newtown Post Office, and Gleeson’s Shop, Portroe. Lorcán would like to thank you all for your kindness and support and hopes to meet you at the book launch.

First Holy Communion and Confirmation Enrolment Masses in Nenagh Parish

We are absolutely thrilled to share some moments from the recent enrolment Masses for First Communion and Confirmation at St Mary of the Rosary church! A huge thank you to all the wonderful children, their dedicated teachers, and everyone who played a role in organising these beautiful and uplifting events. We eagerly anticipate embarking on this exciting journey of faith together with you in the year ahead!

Fr Rexon becomes an Irish citizen!

In a development that is likely to bring joy to his many friends and fans across Nenagh Parish and the Ódhran Pastoral Area, we are delighted to announce that Fr Rexon Chullickal officially became an Irish citizen at a ceremony at the INEC in Killarney, Co Kerry on Monday 10 June 2024.

Ordained to the priesthood in 1999, Fr Rexon remained in his native Kerala province in southwestern India until the end of 2017. When he arrived in Nenagh in July 2018, Fr Rexon immediately endeared himself to the people of Nenagh and the surrounding parishes.

Nenagh Co-PP, Fr Pat Gilbert commented: ‘Fr Rexon has been a wonderful support to me since I came to Nenagh Parish in the summer of 2022. His dedication to the priestly life, his sense of spirituality and dedication to his faith, is an inspiration to all his brother priests. We are delighted he has chosen to become an Irish citizen.’

Nenagh Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson, Dr Conor Reidy, congratulated and thanked Fr Rexon for his decision to become an Irish citizen: ‘Sometimes a person comes along and their sense of calm, their warmth, their presence, is infectious. Fr Rexon is one such person. Wherever you go across the Ódhran Pastoral Area parishes, he is beloved by the people. Whether he is welcoming someone into the world at a Baptism, or ministering over their final journey, his devotion to people is something special. It is our great honour that he has decided to become an Irish citizen.’