By Michael Hussey | Photo Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com) | Graphics: Kieran McCarthy
The Crib at St. Raphael’s will be open to the public from Christmas Day onwards between 10am and 5pm. Please come along and say a prayer. Fr. Joe McGuane, Chaplain St. Raphael’s Centre will celebrate The Christmas Day Mass at 10am and Christmas Carols will be sung by The St. Raphael’s Staff Choir.

The Crib in St. Raphael’s Church, Youghal, has always been a place to visit for the people of the town and surrounding areas and much work has gone in to the building of this magnificent structure by the staff of St. Raphael’s Centre. Sean Fitzgerald and Gerard Griffin who work at the centre have dedicated many hours on the decorating of The Nativity scene for the adoration of the birth of Jesus by the people of the town.
Youghal people in times past and in particular the residents from Sarsfield Terrace and Raheen Park fondly remember praying at the crib and taken a strand of straw from the Manger as a memento of this most Holiest occasion on the birth of Jesus. Many churches leave the manger empty (without the baby Jesus) until Christmas Day to reflect that Jesus has not yet been born before then.

Pictured are Sean Fitzgerald with Gerard Griffin and his daughter Aoife who built the magnificent Crib at St. Raphael’s Centre.
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