Padre Pio Mass, St Mary's Church, Loughmacrory

What to Expect

Termonmaguirc Parish holds a Padre Pio devotion Mass at St Mary’s Church in Loughmacrory on a recurring monthly basis, with the next one falling on Wednesday 12 August 2026 at 7:30pm. St Mary’s is one of three churches in the parish, alongside St Colmcille’s in Carrickmore and St Oliver Plunkett’s in Creggan, and the Padre Pio Mass sits alongside a weekly exposition of the Blessed Sacrament held every Monday in St Colmcille’s and every Wednesday in St Mary’s itself. Padre Pio, canonised in 2002 as St Pio of Pietrelcina, is one of the most widely venerated modern saints in rural Tyrone parishes of this kind, and the parish bulletin regularly prints a prayer to him inviting parishioners to seek his intercession for graces they are asking for.

The Mass itself follows the standard weekday evening format, shorter than a Sunday Mass, with hymns and prayers built around his life and his long-standing reputation as a confessor who spent hours each day hearing confessions. Loughmacrory is a small rural community a few kilometres from Carrickmore in the Sperrins foothills, and St Mary’s Church serves as the parish’s second church after St Colmcille’s. The parish is served by Fr Peter McAnenly as parish priest, alongside Fr Moore and Fr Slater, covering all three churches between them, which is part of why some devotions rotate to a single church each month rather than being repeated everywhere every week. The wider parish also runs a monthly First Friday visitation to the sick and housebound, alternating between the Carrickmore and Loughmacrory areas, a reminder of how much of parish life here still runs on a monthly rather than weekly rhythm.

Good to Know

• Next Mass: Wednesday 12 August 2026 at 7:30pm
• Venue: St Mary’s Church, Loughmacrory
• Recurrence: monthly Padre Pio devotion Mass
• Free to attend, no booking required
• Part of Termonmaguirc Parish, which also covers Carrickmore and Creggan

Getting There

Loughmacrory sits on the Carrickmore to Sixmilecross road in mid Tyrone, a few minutes’ drive from Carrickmore village, with Omagh the nearest large town.