The World Day of Prayer for Vocations was celebrated on Sunday 17th April this year, the Fourth Sunday of Easter. The World Day of Prayer for Vocations is also known as Vocations Sunday or Good Shepherd Sunday and the theme this year was ‘Vocations: Witness to the Truth’. In his message for Vocations Sunday Pope […]
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 50th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY Communication and Mercy: A Fruitful Encounter Dear Brothers and Sisters, The Holy Year of Mercy invites all of us to reflect on the relationship between communication and mercy. The Church, in union with Christ, the living incarnation of the Father of Mercies, […]
DIOCESE OF KILMORE 1916 COMMEMORATION AT MASSES IN THE DIOCESE OF KILMORE The Centenary of the Easter Rising will be marked at Masses in parishes throughout the diocese of Kilmore on Saturday evening and Sunday, 23-24th April. The liturgy will be a special liturgy of remembrance, reflection and prayer to mark the anniversary of the […]
47th Irish Church Music Summer School. The theme of the 2016 Summer School is ‘God full of Mercy’ chosen to celebrate the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy through music and active participation in liturgy. Pope Francis teaches that ‘Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life’ and he continues. ‘The Church’s very credibility […]
KILMORE DIOCESE WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF NEW DIRECTOR OF YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY The Bishop of Kilmore, Most Reverend Leo O’Reilly, has announced the appointment of Ms. Carina McGinnell as the new Diocesan Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry. Ms. McGinnell is a native of the parish of Denn and studied in Loreto […]
EASTER MESSAGE 2016 Bishop Leo O’Reilly At Easter we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. We celebrate it this year in the context of the Jubilee Year of Mercy and also in the context of the centenary of the 1916 Rising. We remember also this year the centenary of the Battle of the Somme during the […]
