This section includes mainly administrative files relating to the ministries undertaken by the Capuchin community at Holy Trinity Church and Friary in Cork. The series includes records of masses, internal community records and minute books, correspondence, schedules and records of elections (mainly for the guardianship of the Cork house).
This section includes registers and appointment books recording the names of Capuchin priests celebrating masses at Holy Trinity Church in Cork. Historical mass books (pre-dating circa 1970) have evidently been lost. However, Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) took extracts from some of the original (and now lost) mass registers for the purposes of his historical research. Some of this research has survived (see CA HT/7/7 and CA HT/7/8).
Register of masses at Holy Trinity Church. The volume contains several typescript inserts mainly relating to instructions for suffrages, jubilee masses, masses for benefactors, and masses for the Provincial Minister and Definitory (Council). The next volume in this sequence is at CA HT/1/1/1/10.
Notes from the Most Rev. Thomas Alphonsus O’Callaghan (1839-1916), Bishop of Cork, to the Holy Trinity community. The file includes a note re the desired formula for a declaration to be signed at the reception of converts to the Catholic faith and a sanction for the creation of a young men’s’ sodality at Holy Trinity Church.
Letter from M. Mahony, St. Helen’s, Blarney, County Cork, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC (1871-1926), referring to the recent death of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904).
Letter from the Most Rev. Charles Joseph O’Reilly (1860-1923), Bishop of Baker City, Oregon, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and the Holy Trinity community, referring to his recent visit to Cork, and to the impending arrival of the Irish Capuchins in his diocese. O’Reilly wrote: ‘I have heralded your coming, and all are eagerly expecting you. I will give you the choice of several places which promise well, and you will have missions throughout the state to enable you to get the means to purchase property and build’.
Community lists and Horariums (Latin for ‘the hours’). Horariums are the name given to the daily schedule for those living in a religious community or seminary.