{"id":4526,"date":"2019-05-31T23:33:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2019-06-12T23:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T23:35:18","slug":"parish-trip-to-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2019\/05\/31\/parish-trip-to-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish Trip to Knock &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12 of us from the parish travelled to Knock Shrine last week for an overnight trip\/pilgrimage. Having arrived to Knock in time for the 3pm Mass on Sunday June 2nd we heard Fr Richard share some reflections on the great feast of the Ascension. After a relaxing evening that included rosary in St Mary&#8217;s chapel and some spiritual reflections on the same feast of the Ascension we were ready to rest in the peaceful surroundings of St Mary&#8217;s hostel (formerly convent).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-02-2-Richard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4552\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-02-2-Richard-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-02-2-Richard-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-02-2-Richard-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-02-2-Richard-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-02-2-Richard-648x1152.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-02-2-Richard-108x192.jpg 108w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-02-2-Richard.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday we celebrated Mass in the Apparition chapel. In the afternoon on our way home we stopped in St. Mel&#8217;s Cathedral, Longford for a glimpse of the recently refurbished cathedral. There we saw two beautiful stained glass windows done by the famous Harry Clarke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-05a-St-Mels-group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4553\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-05a-St-Mels-group-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-05a-St-Mels-group-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-05a-St-Mels-group-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-05a-St-Mels-group-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-05a-St-Mels-group-648x365.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-05a-St-Mels-group-341x192.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-02-Longford-Harry-Clark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4554\" src=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-02-Longford-Harry-Clark-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-02-Longford-Harry-Clark-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-02-Longford-Harry-Clark-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-02-Longford-Harry-Clark-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-02-Longford-Harry-Clark-648x1152.jpg 648w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-02-Longford-Harry-Clark-108x192.jpg 108w, https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-03-02-Longford-Harry-Clark.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to those who joined with us for a wonderful time and a chance to meet some of the Ryan family for a reunion meeting.<\/p>\n<p>(Fr. Joseph Ryan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 of us from the parish travelled to Knock Shrine last week for an overnight trip\/pilgrimage. Having arrived to Knock in time for the 3pm Mass on Sunday June 2nd we heard Fr Richard share some reflections on the great feast of the Ascension. After a relaxing evening that included rosary in St Mary&#8217;s chapel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/2019\/05\/31\/parish-trip-to-knock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parish Trip to Knock &#8211; Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}