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Thurles Parish has confirmed full details of its Christmas Mass schedule for 2025, with services taking place across the Cathedral, Bóthar na Naomh Church and the Pallottine Chapel, offering parishioners several opportunities to celebrate the festive season.
Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24, will see Mass celebrated at 7pm in the Cathedral, while Bóthar na Naomh Church will host a family-friendly Mass at 5pm. The Pallottine Chapel will celebrate Christmas Eve Mass at 8pm.
On Christmas Day, the Cathedral will host Mass at 8am and 11am, while Bóthar na Naomh Church will celebrate Mass at 9.30am. The Pallottine Chapel will hold Christmas Day Mass at 10am.
Christmas confessions will be available at Bóthar na Naomh Church on Thursday, December 18, from 6pm, continuing after Mass if required. On Christmas Eve, confessions will also be heard in the Cathedral from 1.30pm to 4.30pm.
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Parishioners are advised that there will be no Eucharistic Adoration on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Following Christmas, revised Mass times will come into effect from Friday, December 26. The Cathedral will host Mass at 11am on Fridays, with a 7pm Vigil Mass on Saturday, December 27. Bóthar na Naomh Church will celebrate Mass at 11am on Saturday, December 27.
The parish has also confirmed that there will be no evening Mass on Tuesday, December 30, or on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2026, and that no confessions will be held on Saturday, December 27.
In a festive message, the Thurles Parish Pastoral Team extended warm wishes to parishioners, saying: “May the joy and peace of Christmas be with you now and through the New Year.”
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