Homily of Bishop Fintan Monahan for the Legion of Mary Pilgrimage to Our Lady’s Shrine, Knock

by DavidM | Sep 25, 2017 | News archive 2017

Pilgrimage “The history of a nation is not in parliaments and battlefields, but in what people say to each other on fair days and high days, and how they farm and quarrel and go on pilgrimage.” The words of W.B. Yeats – in Stories from Carelton. Legion Pilgrimage...

Archbishop Eamon Martin leads Drogheda pilgrims to German town with strong links to Saint Oliver Plunkett

by DavidM | Aug 25, 2017 | News archive 2017

Archbishop Eamon Martin is currently leading a delegation of twenty pilgrims from Drogheda, Co Louth to Lamspringe in Germany.  Lamspringe, part of the Diocese of Hildesheim, is about sixty kilometres south of Hanover.  It is his first such pilgrimage undertaken as...

Address by Bishop Kevin Doran “Edward Flanagan – The Heart of the Shepherd”

by DavidM | Aug 24, 2017 | News archive 2017

Father Flanagan Conference in Roscommon Library for Heritage Week 2017 Diocese of Elphin supporting the development of a Father Flanagan Visitor Centre for pilgrims in his home parish of Ballymoe “Father Flanagan saw his responsibility, precisely as a priest, to...

Homily of Bishop Donal McKeown for the first anniversary Mass for the late Bishop Edward Daly RIP

by DavidM | Aug 8, 2017 | News archive 2017

Bishop Daly knew that his call to holiness led him to walk with broken hearts, to visit those in prison and to stand speechless beside gaping graves Jesus offers a different style of leadership.  He offers the possibility of a transfigured humanity … His last words on...

Homily of Bishop Donal McKeown for the Ordination Mass of Rev Malachy Gallagher

by DavidM | Jul 31, 2017 | News archive 2017

Saint Mary’s Church, Drumagarner, Kilrea, Co Derry “It is profoundly counter-cultural when someone is not afraid of commitment and is deeply in love with the Lord who calls them to walk forward in trust …Your greatest asset as a priest will not be your theology...