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Welcome, Fáilte, Ekabo,

Welcome to St. Brigid's Parish Ballybane, Galway.

Thank you for visiting our website.

We hope you will continue to stay in touch with us and with the many programmes and events going on in our parish.

Bringing Holy Week Home: A Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday Companion 2020

This year we make our journey of Holy Week in a way like never before. As a Christian community we cannot gather. However, we can continue to keep Holy Week in our homes, in union with the prayer of the Church as we live out these sacred days.

These resources are designed to help people undertake this keeping of Holy Week, bringing it into the heart of our home.

Each of the eight days follows a similar pattern:

- A sentence giving the focus of the day;

- A quote from the Gospel of the day;

- A section deepening participation in the broadcast celebration: highlighting key points for people joining in the liturgy of the day via digital broadcast, with simple steps to deepen their participation in the prayer of the day;

- A prayer ritual for the home offering another way for people prayerfully entering into the spirit of the day;

- 'To do' suggestions of practical actions / activities in tune with the day.

https://www.galwaydiocese.ie/feature/bringing-holy-week-home

A Little Bit About Us

St. Brigid’s Parish is located in Ballybane 4.8 kilometres east of Galway City. The area of Ballybane takes its name from a Ring Fort,which dates back to a period between 600BC and 16 AD. The Parish is named after St. Brigid of Kildare and the emblem of the parish is the St Brigid’s Cross. St. Brigid’s is a relatively new parish (1995) and now boasts a small native population, a much larger population coming originally from Galway City and county, a sizeable number of Travellers and a large and diverse representation of people from Africa and Eastern Europe.