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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
