Former Jesuit Church & Residence, Limerick
Reportage slideshow (June, 2011) of the (former) Sacred Heart Jesuit Church, Limerick, Ireland.
This iconic building is situated at the Crescent, on O'Connell Street, Limerick, and was completed in 1868 and opened for public worship on January 27th 1869. The architect was William Corbett and the church is in the parish of St Joseph's. According to some reports, it was originally intended to be dedicated to St. Aloysius but when it was formally dedicated in 1869 it was called the 'Church of the Sacred Heart'. The façade of the church is Classical/Grecian in design and was renovated in 1900. There are no aisles in the church but the nave had two rows of pews. The nave was extended in 1919.
The ceiling of the church is panelled with floriated ornaments in Stucco work. The high altar was designed by William Corbett and is made from 22 types of precious marble. On the floor around the high altar, there are the symbols of the four writers of the Gospels. The angel represents Matthew, the lion represents Mark while Luke and John are represented by the bull and eagle respectively.
Some of the stained glass windows throughout the church show the letters 'IHS'. These letters are the first three letters of the Greek word for Jesus which is IHSOUS. In Latin the letters stand for Jesus hominum salvator which translates as 'Jesus, Saviour of men'.
There are nine mosaics above the high altar. The central mosaic is of the Sacred Heart ascending in the presence of St Margaret Mary Alacoque and Blessed Claude la Colombiere. It is surrounded (from left to right) by depictions of St Francis Jerome, St Francis Borgia, St Francis Xavier, St Ignatius, St Stanislaus, St Aloysius, St John Berchmans and St Francis Regis.
Sadly, the church (& residence) formally closed in 2006 and is currently for sale - again!
Photographer: Dr. Michael O'Brien (c) June, 2011
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City of Churches
Limerick Museum and Archives (LM&A) are running an exhibition on the places of worship in Limerick City throughout the centuries.
This video was commissioned by LM&A to highlight the art in some of the city's churches. Interview with Randal Hodkinson whose family have been decorating the Limerick city churches for over 160 years.
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Sacred Heart Church - Limerick Live Stream
The Institute of Christ the King celebrates the classical Roman Liturgy, the “Traditional Latin Mass,” at the Sacred Heart Church, in the heart of Limerick, Ireland.
Live streaming: Sunday: 10:30 am High Mass and daily 7 pm Mass (Saturday: 12 noon)
The Sacred Heart Church, Limerick - ACP Productions
Introduction to Restoration Project
Narrated By
Canon Wulfran Lebocq
ACP Productions Team:
Project Leader - Sheena Ryan
Video Production - Sheena Ryan
- Simon Collins
Sound Engineer - Simon Collins
Contract Manager - Martin English
Quantity Surveyor - Mike Henley
Building Surveyor
(Conservation) - David Humphreys
Introduction Logo - House of Design
Introduction Music - Clodagh Simonds
Thanks To
Eileen Daly
The Saint Bonaventure Trust
&
Irish Natural Stone
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Sacred Heart Church - Limerick Live Stream
The Institute of Christ the King celebrates the classical Roman Liturgy, the “Traditional Latin Mass,” at the Sacred Heart Church, in the heart of Limerick, Ireland.
Live streaming: Sunday: 10:30 am High Mass and daily 7 pm Mass (Saturday: 12 noon)
Sacred Heart Church - Limerick Live Stream
The Institute of Christ the King celebrates the classical Roman Liturgy, the “Traditional Latin Mass,” at the Sacred Heart Church, in the heart of Limerick, Ireland.
Live streaming: Sunday: 10:30 am High Mass and daily 7 pm Mass (Saturday: 12 noon)
Sacred Heart Church - Limerick Live Stream
The Institute of Christ the King celebrates the classical Roman Liturgy, the “Traditional Latin Mass,” at the Sacred Heart Church, in the heart of Limerick, Ireland.
Live streaming: Sunday: 10:30 am High Mass and daily 7 pm Mass (Saturday: 12 noon)
Sacred Heart Church - Limerick Live Stream
The Institute of Christ the King celebrates the classical Roman Liturgy, the “Traditional Latin Mass,” at the Sacred Heart Church, in the heart of Limerick, Ireland.
Live streaming: Sunday: 10:30 am High Mass and daily 7 pm Mass (Saturday: 12 noon)
St. Mary's Church R.C Limerick
Pictures and Clips from St. Mary's Church Limerick as part of a project i'm doing.
Sacred Heart Church - Limerick Live Stream
The Institute of Christ the King celebrates the classical Roman Liturgy, the “Traditional Latin Mass,” at the Sacred Heart Church, in the heart of Limerick, Ireland.
Live streaming: Sunday: 10:30 am High Mass and daily 7 pm Mass (Saturday: 12 noon)
Launch of spring 2016 Limerick Diocesan Synod
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Augustinian church
Victory Over the World - Keith Malcomson
Brother Keith Malcomson preaches on victory over this World in this continuation of our Born-Again series.
Due to technical issues the latter half of this upload is audio only.
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Sacred Heart Church Limerick May 2018
Church of the Sacred Heart, The Crescent, Limerick, Limerick City
Terraced cruciform-plan three-bay three-storey pediment brick church, built between 1864-67, with seven-sided apse to rear. Erected largely to the rear of two terraced late Georgian houses.
Elaborate marble altar furniture, altar rail and mosaics to the apse. High altar, dated to 1876, made in Rome. Shrine to the Sacred Heart dated to 1920. Marble altar rails dated to 1927. Sanctuary mosaic, dated to 1939, and worked by Italian craftsmen.
The Jesuits moved into the current house in 1862 and started building the church in 1864. It was begun during the rector ship of Fr. Thomas Kelly. The church was dedicated in 1869,
In 1938 Patrick Joseph Sheahan was responsible for the painting and decoration.
Sacred Heart Church - Limerick Live Stream
The Institute of Christ the King celebrates the classical Roman Liturgy, the “Traditional Latin Mass,” at the Sacred Heart Church, in the heart of Limerick, Ireland.
Live streaming: Sunday: 10:30 am High Mass and daily 7 pm Mass (Saturday: 12 noon)
Gifts of the Holy Spirit (Pt. 4) - Keith Malcomson
Keith preaches the final message on the gifts of the Holy Spirit in this series on The Church.
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Tom MacMahon SJ
Fr Tom MacMahon speaks to Pat Coyle about his life as a Jesuit, particularly in the Crescent College and the Sacred Heart Church, Limerick, where he spent most of his Jesuit life.
Sacred Heart Church @ Mohegan Sun
Sacred Heart Church Choir of Bloomfield, CT sings the National Anthem for the Connecticut Sun womens basketball game at the Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday, September 9,2012.
Catholic Idolatry
The idolatry found within the Catholic Church directly parallels that of Israels worship of the golden calf in Exodus 32. Just as the Roman Catholic -- the children of Israel did not believe that they were worshiping an image. Their intention was to communicate with the Lord through this image. In Exodus Israel is looking to Aaron to find a replacement for Moses that would be used by God to lead them.
Exodus 32:1 says:
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Here in the text gods is spelled with a little G the same as in Exodus 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh
Moses was called a god - meaning that Moses was going to be the conduit or channel by which God was to speak to Pharaoh. The calf was to serve in the same capacity as Moses an object to seek God through. Now lets read verses 3-5
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
In these verses we see that WITH good intentions Aaron declared a great feast to dedicate the golden calf to the LORD. Here in the text the word LORD is in all capitals denoting that this was Yahweh the true God.
Verses 7 and 8 say: And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, AND HAVE WORSHIPPED IT, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
The children of Israel did not view praying to God through an image as idolatry - yet that was exactly what God said they were guilty.
Verse 10 we see that God was willing to destroy Israel for this sin.
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them
Catholics have been drawn into this type of idolatry by the practice of venerating images -- believing that they are only using the image, or statue, as a conduit or mediator that they can worship Jesus and honor the Saints. The Manual of the Holy Catholic Church: page 371 explains:
. . . that the honor which is given to them is referred to the objects which they represent, so that through the images which we kiss, and before which we uncover our heads and kneel, we adore Christ and venerate the Saints whose likenesses they are
This type of idolatry is not limited to statues and images it is in the very centerpiece of Catholic worship the Mass. According to the Catholic Church the Mass is a perpetual sacrifice of Jesus in which the believer physically eats the flesh and drinks the blood of Jesus through bread and wine that has been transformed by the Catholic priest. This act is called transubstantiation.
The Second Vatican Council decreed, All the faithful ought to show to this most holy sacrament the worship which is due to the true God
To worship the Eucharistic elements as God is nothing less than blasphemous idolatry and can only bring about Gods judgment. The Lord proclaimed in the 42nd chapter of Isaiah (42:8), I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Israel said of the golden calf, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Just as Israel gave the attributes of God to the golden calf, the Catholic Church attributes the Eucharistic wafer to Jesus Christ.
If you have ever knelt before a statue or worshiped the Eucharist then, that like the Hebrews in Exodus 32, you have sinned against God.You must turn from this idolatry, come to Jesus Christ alone, not through a statue, nor through the Eucharist, but by faith. If you will do this he has promised salvation and peace with God.
Jesus said in John 3:16, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.