Church of the Resurrection
Farranree County Cork
Who we are
Church of the Resurrection is serving the Farranree community and engaging and encouraging others through a life-changing journey in Farranree, County Cork.
Our mission is to nurture a diverse and welcoming community, committed to following fearlessly wherever God is leading us and make Disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of Farranree and the world!
Our mission is to nurture a diverse and welcoming community, committed to following fearlessly wherever God is leading us and make Disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of Farranree and the world!
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Leadership
Leader Name:
Very Rev. John Walsh PP
Leader Position:
Priest
Phone:
Leader Email:
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Administration
Admin Name:
Martha Ryan
Admin Position:
Sacristy
Phone:
Admin Email:
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Church of the Resurrection Mass Times
MASS TIMES
Sunday: 10.30 am
Weekdays: Monday to Friday, 10.00 am
Working Holydays: 10.30 am
Eve of Working Holydays: 6.30 pm Vigil
During restrictions: Mass Monday-Friday @ 10am & Sunday @10.30am on radio 108fm
Confession as requested
Side chapel open for private prayer daily after 10am Mass
Not open when we have a funeral due to restrictions but will open after funeral.
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Sunday: 10.30 am
Weekdays: Monday to Friday, 10.00 am
Working Holydays: 10.30 am
Eve of Working Holydays: 6.30 pm Vigil
During restrictions: Mass Monday-Friday @ 10am & Sunday @10.30am on radio 108fm
Confession as requested
Side chapel open for private prayer daily after 10am Mass
Not open when we have a funeral due to restrictions but will open after funeral.
It's been more than 2 years since the last mass times update. Please make sure to contact the church to confirm mass times.
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Church of the Resurrection History
On the 27th August, 1958 the third of the Rosary of Churches on the outskirts of Cork City was opened. It was the Church of the Resurrection, on what was then known as Spangle Hill and has now become Farranree. It is another of the ‘hilltop’ Rosary Churches, like Mayfield to the east and Gurranabraher to the south.
As you stand on Patrick’s Bridge and look to the west and the north it crowns the heights overlooking the city. A festival of flowers marked the golden jubilee a couple of years ago.
Fitzgerald Smith and Company, the Cork based architects on the project designed what was described as a basilica plan freely interpreted with an upward thrust intended to be symbolic of the Ressurection culminating in a ‘fleche’ or thin rooftop spire. At the blessing of the Church Bishop Lucey asked, is it too much to hope that as Christ’s Ressurection began his glorious and triumphant reign after Calvary, so many this new Church of the Ressurection may begin for Cork an new era in which emigration and poverty and lack of housing and neglect of God’s Commandments will be no more, in which religion and family life, trade, industry and the arts will flourish, in which he that sitteth on the throne can say of Cork:
“Behold I have made thee and they people new according to My own Heart”?
The consacration was performed by the great Cardinal Cushing of Boston.
The church has a delightful, almost fairy-tale exterior with tall slender fleche (Spire). Beautiful mosaics surmount the entrance and there are lowdrooping eaves on both sides of the building. The roof over the nave is supported by high vaulted steel trusses covered with teak. These are to convey an upward symbolism in keeping with the theme of Resurrection.
Canon Sydney McKeown, the famous Scottish tenor, played his part in fundraising through concert work for the Church of the Resurrection, topping the bill at a sell-out concert at the City Hall.
As you stand on Patrick’s Bridge and look to the west and the north it crowns the heights overlooking the city. A festival of flowers marked the golden jubilee a couple of years ago.
Fitzgerald Smith and Company, the Cork based architects on the project designed what was described as a basilica plan freely interpreted with an upward thrust intended to be symbolic of the Ressurection culminating in a ‘fleche’ or thin rooftop spire. At the blessing of the Church Bishop Lucey asked, is it too much to hope that as Christ’s Ressurection began his glorious and triumphant reign after Calvary, so many this new Church of the Ressurection may begin for Cork an new era in which emigration and poverty and lack of housing and neglect of God’s Commandments will be no more, in which religion and family life, trade, industry and the arts will flourish, in which he that sitteth on the throne can say of Cork:
The consacration was performed by the great Cardinal Cushing of Boston.
The church has a delightful, almost fairy-tale exterior with tall slender fleche (Spire). Beautiful mosaics surmount the entrance and there are lowdrooping eaves on both sides of the building. The roof over the nave is supported by high vaulted steel trusses covered with teak. These are to convey an upward symbolism in keeping with the theme of Resurrection.
Canon Sydney McKeown, the famous Scottish tenor, played his part in fundraising through concert work for the Church of the Resurrection, topping the bill at a sell-out concert at the City Hall.
"Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer."E. M. Bounds
Church of the Resurrection listing was last updated on the 3rd of April, 2022
