The annual Day of Prayer for Survivors and Victims of Sexual Abuse will take place on Friday 28 February 2020, the first Friday of Lent.
All are asked to keep victims in their thoughts and prayers on that day.
Following his meeting with victims and survivors, Pope Francis used the following Penitential Rite in the Phoenix Park at the beginning of mass on 26th August 2018.
At the beginning of mass on 26th August 2018 following his meeting with victims and survivors
The stone from the Liturgy of Repentance and Healing celebrated at the 2012 Eucharistic Congress has a permanent home on the lakeshore here at Lough Derg. It continues to challenge us all to play our part to create a church and a society where children and others who are vulnerable can be safe. Nearby stands Ken Thompson’s statue of Patrick the Pilgrim. Patrick, in his youth, was trafficked into slavery. He found the way to healing and new strength and became a blessing to the society that had enslaved him. May Patrick inspire us to continue together on the long pilgrimage of repentance and on the journey towards healing, with the grace of the One whose power at work in us can do more than we can ask or even imagine. Fr La Flynn, Prior.
"Lord, we are so sorry for what some of us did to your children: treated them so cruelly, especially, in their hour of need. We have left them with a lifelong suffering. This was not your plan for them or us. Please help us to help them. Guide us, Lord, Amen.”