Glanmire to hold May Procession

The annual Glanmire May Sunday Procession will take place on Sunday May 4.

The procession has been held on the first Sunday of May for more than 75 years, since the Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Glanmire was blessed and opened on May 1, 1949.

It will start at St Joseph’s Church, Glanmire at 3pm and finish with singing led by St Joseph’s Church Choir, reflection and benediction at the grotto at about 3.45pm.

The parish priest of Sacred Heart parish on Western Road, Fr Con Doherty, will preach the homily. Fr Con joined the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1983, and has worked in St Alban’s Parish, England, ministered to catholic communities in Russia and ministered in Cuan Mhuire, Limerick.

At the conclusion of the ceremony, traditionally people take flowers from the grotto altar for their homes and the graves of their loved ones. 

The organisers thanked everyone in the community who has helped maintain the grotto.