{"id":328046,"date":"2026-06-08T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328046\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:32:11","slug":"nuns-garden-provides-a-safe-haven-for-corpus-christi-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328046\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuns\u2019 Garden Provides a Safe Haven for Corpus Christi Procession"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Fr. Mossie Brick, P.P. Castleisland raising the monstrance during the Corpus Christi Procession in the Nuns\u2019 Garden on Saturday evening. \u00a9Photograph: John Reidy.<\/p>\n

It is with the safety of all as a central focus that the Corpus Christi Procession has now taken to the inspiring Nuns\u2019 Garden as its annual go to venue.<\/p>\n

Going away back in its history, the procession took in the whole town through its arterial Main Street \u2013 up Church Street, down around the Back-of-the-Forge and around the Market Cross and off up Main Street to the library and turn and back to its base on Church Street.<\/p>\n

More recently it has visited local private and public estates and its message has always been the same.<\/p>\n

Girls Paving with Petals \u2013 Boys Jousting<\/p>\n

The communicants of the particular year participated with the girls paving the path of the Eucharist with rose petals and the boys getting in the odd bit of jousting with the long poles of the processional crosses.<\/p>\n

There couldn\u2019t be any heavy engagement with these crosses as the sound of the clash reverberated through the streets and over the silence of the solemn proceeding.<\/p>\n

Then you could be pounced upon by a procession orderly, a teacher or, God forbid, a parent.<\/p>\n

A Broken Pole <\/p>\n

I remember an occasion when one of the poles was broken in a skirmish that escaped all prying eyes and the culprit was never caught and there wasn\u2019t a word in The Kerryman the following Saturday.<\/p>\n

The processional crosses have long been put away now and many of the boys, good and bold,who carried them in those days have gone to that great procession above. I\u2019m sure the lad, whose skirmishing led to the breaking of the long pole, is there with them; there are greater sins in the world but we didn\u2019t know that then.<\/p>\n

Congregation Aware of History in the Making<\/p>\n

There was an air of history in the making and of something less than celebration at Saturday evening\u2019s Procession in the Nuns\u2019 Garden.<\/p>\n

Fr. Brick carried the monstrance and was accompanied and the canopy carried on the rounds of the garden by: Sean Walsh, Ned O\u2019Callaghan, John Breen and Con Horan.<\/p>\n

The procession was led by Holy Communicants and Cordal twins, Emma and Katie O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n

Members of the congregation were well aware that it was their beloved P.P. Fr. Mossie Brick\u2019s final Corpus Christi Procession in Castleisland.<\/p>\n

Let the Children Play<\/p>\n

Fr. Brick continued with his service unhindered as, equally unbothered, many of the children present played on the vast lawns in front of his improvised altar \u2013 as only children can and will.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m glad they left them play away. If that\u2019s how they\u2019ll remember the occasion it can only be good,\u201d said Fr. Brick after the ceremony.<\/p>\n

But the evening produced even more memories for the young parishioners. After their exertions on the lawn a great big basket of sweets was produced courtesy of the parish and the scrambling joy it brought was unconfined and memorable.<\/p>\n

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