1992 saw the second great achievement of the first Latin Mass Society of Ireland when permission for an annual Mass at Holycross Abbey in Co Tipperary. Holycross is a restored Cistercian Abbey in the village of Holycross which is in the hands of the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly. The restoration was the brainchild of Archbishop Thomas Morris. The church houses a number of relics of the true cross and the complex is the national Padre Pio centre in Ireland - Mrs Mona Hanafin, wife of Senator Des Hanafin and mother of Mary Hanafan.
So on a cold October day in 1992, the Latin Mass Society of Ireland (newly named Ecclesia Dei Ireland - more of that anon), had the first extraordinary form Roman Mass in Holycross Abbey since its restoration. Archbishop Morris presided, the first Irish archbishop to do so since the liturgical changes (I might have mentioned earlier that Bishop Edward Daly of Derry offered the inaugural Mass in the Derry Diocese). The Mass was offered by Father Pádraig Ó Fithchill in honour of the newly beatified Irish martyrs. And Mass was to take place in Holycross on an annual basis which still continues.
So on a cold October day in 1992, the Latin Mass Society of Ireland (newly named Ecclesia Dei Ireland - more of that anon), had the first extraordinary form Roman Mass in Holycross Abbey since its restoration. Archbishop Morris presided, the first Irish archbishop to do so since the liturgical changes (I might have mentioned earlier that Bishop Edward Daly of Derry offered the inaugural Mass in the Derry Diocese). The Mass was offered by Father Pádraig Ó Fithchill in honour of the newly beatified Irish martyrs. And Mass was to take place in Holycross on an annual basis which still continues.
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