Bishop Leo O’Reilly has announced the following changes, to take effect on1st September 2016.
The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has prepared a Message for the celebration of the second World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 1 September 2016. It is entitled Show Mercy to our Common Home. From its very title,the Message situates our living-out of Laudato Si’ squarely within the Jubilee Year of Mercy. By […]
Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, this week welcomed fourteen new seminarians to start their training for the priesthood. The Trustees of the College met yesterday in Maynooth to discuss the needs of the students and staff. They acknowledged the generosity and openness which motivates young men to consider a vocation to the priesthood and to apply […]
“It was with great sadness that I heard the news today of the deaths of the five members of the Hawe family, who lived in Barconey, in the parish of Castlerahan in our diocese. “As Bishop of Kilmore and patron of Saint Mary’s National School, Castlerahan, I know that I speak for all people of […]
Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) Pope Francis’ Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Family, was published on Friday 8 April 2016. Written in a style that we have come to associate with Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia contains a broad-ranging blend of biblical passages, meditations on marital love, a recognition of how lonely modern life can […]
Pictured above are Bishop Leo O’Reilly, with some of the 40 people, from across the diocese of Kilmore, who have travelled to Krakow, Poland, to participate in the World Youth Day celebrations which are taking place there at present. Bishop Leo will be joining the pilgrims from his diocese in Krakow later this week. Bishop Leo was the […]
Pictured above, From left to rights are Fr. John McTiernan, PP parish of Annagh, Bishop Leo O’Reilly, Fr. P.J. Corrigan and Fr. Charles Heerey at the Mass in Belturbet as part of the Jubilee celebrations of their ordinations. Fr. Corrigan was ordained on 17th June 1956 and celebrated 60 years as a priest. Fr. Heerey […]
