by Oisin Walsh | Sep 27, 2015 | News archive 2015
Pope Francis has announced that the next World Meeting of Families will take place in 2018 in Dublin. He made the announcement at the concluding Mass of the World Meeting of Families which ended in Philadelphia this evening. It was the final stage of Pope Francis’...
by Oisin Walsh | Sep 27, 2015 | News archive 2015
Sunday, 27 September 2015 The theme of ‘Christ our Hope’ is an especially appropriate one for our National Eucharistic Congress which has been held here in Knock this weekend at the distance of some three years from the International Eucharistic Congress that took...
by Oisin Walsh | Sep 26, 2015 | News archive 2015
National Eucharistic Congress at the Marian Shrine, Knock · I suggest two particular pastoral supports for marriage and the family: (i) a parish or pastoral area based approach to preparing for the sacrament of marriage including prayer, catechesis and practical...
by Oisin Walsh | Sep 26, 2015 | News archive 2015
Basilica of Our Lady of Knock, Archdiocese of Tuam This time last week I baptised baby Katherine Maria up in County Donegal. On Monday, her mother sent me a beautiful photograph of the moment when I touched the little girl’s ears and mouth, saying: ‘May...
by Oisin Walsh | Sep 26, 2015 | News archive 2015
The Holy Father Pope Francis has proclaimed a Jubilee Year of Mercy beginning on 8 December, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. There have been several other Holy Years in my lifetime, but somehow the theme of God’s Mercy seems to be a...
