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faith · Monday 24 August 2026 · 7:30pm 
Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Dungarvan
At St Mary's Parish Church · Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
At St Mary's Parish Church · Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
St Mary’s Parish Church in Dungarvan runs its Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help over nine consecutive Mondays, beginning 24 August and continuing through to 19 October 2026, with each session at 7:30pm. The novena is a long-standing devotion in the parish, drawing a steady congregation of regulars through the autumn weeks, built around hymns and prayers in honour of Our Lady under this title. Because the evening session takes over the usual weekday slot, the parish suspends its regular 9:30am Monday morning Mass for the duration of the novena, a detail Dungarvan Parish flags clearly in its notices so regular morning Mass-goers are not caught out. The novena runs alongside the parish’s other standing arrangements, including its Masses broadcast on 98.5FM, which continue as normal through the same nine weeks. Dungarvan Parish is centred on St Mary’s, one of the largest parish churches in the diocese and the hub for the town’s weekday and weekend Mass schedule, and the parish continues to post its notices and newsletter online each week through the novena period so parishioners can check for any changes to the pattern. The parish also runs the same novena earlier in the year, over nine Mondays from mid-April into June, so the August to October run is the second cycle of the devotion in the parish calendar rather than a one-off.
St Mary’s Parish Church is in Dungarvan town centre, within walking distance of the main street and the town’s public car parks. Dungarvan is served by Bus Éireann routes connecting it to Waterford city and Cork.
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