Pèlerinage Irlandais à Notre Dame de Paris

Cette « Année de la Foi » sera célébrée pour le jubilée de la Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris qui fête ses 850 ans. Différents groupes, paroisses, diocèses de France et du monde entier feront  le pèlerinage dans cette grande icone de la chrétienté occidentale de la ville des lumières. Une structure temporaire a été installée sur le […]

Irish Pilgrimage to Notre Dame de Paris

This Year of Faith is being marked in the city of Paris by a Jubilee of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, which is 850 years old this year. Different groups, parishes, communities and dioceses from France and from around the world will make a pilgrimage to this great icon of Western Christianity and […]

Support Trócaire’s Lenten Campaign

During Lent the Irish Chaplaincy of Paris will be supporting the Trócaire Lenten campaign. For 39 years the Trócaire box has been a part of the Irish tradition and is one of the oldest and most established fundraising campaigns in Ireland, which raises approximately €8 million to fund Trócaire’s long-term development programs. Trócaire works in […]

Chaplaincy Welcomes President Higgins

President Michael D. Higgins visited the Irish College during his official visit to Paris. The President was greeted by members of the Fondation Irlandaise and by members of the staff on his arrival. He visited the Old Library where the seminary collection is housed and then he came to the Chapelle Saint-Patrick. He was greeted […]

Fr Maher Interview on Peace in Ireland

In an interview broadcast on KTOTV on February 13, 2013, the French Catholic television station, the Irish Chaplain Fr Sean Maher spoke about the increasing peace, solidarity, and charity among the Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Fr Sean spoke about how the people […]

Irish President Visits Collège des Irlandais

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins visited the Collège des Irlandais as part of his official visit to France. Accompanied by his wife Mrs Sabina Higgins and the Irish Ambassador to France, Mr Paul Kavanagh, President Higgins visited the Chapelle Saint-Patrick where he was given a tour by the […]

Semaines Sociales November 2012

Men and Women: the new deal Last November 22 – 25, 2012 the the Semaines Sociales held their annual open university in the Parc Floral, Vincennes. The participants came from all over France but there were also quite a few foreign delegations from Belarus, several Eastern European countries, Germany, Spain and Ireland. Bishop Noel Treanor […]

Celebrating a New Spring and St Brigid

The beginning of February has a very strong symbolism in the Irish Celtic and Christian tradition. After the long, dark, and cold winter February 1 is the beginning of spring when we look forward to longer, warmer, bright days, and the new growth of plants, trees, flowers and vegetables. February 1 also marks the Feast […]

St Patrick’s Purgatory on Lough Derg

Each year many thousands of pilgrims from Ireland and other countries across Europe and indeed the world make their way to the small island of St Patrick’s Purgatory on Lough Derg to do the Three-Day Pilgrimage. According to tradition the first abbot of the monastery of Lough Derg was St Davog, a disciple of St […]