Visit of Icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to the Diocese of Kilmore Blessed Pope Pius IX presented the Icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help to the Redemptorists for veneration in their newly-built Church of Sant’Alfonso, Rome in December 1865. It was in need of restoration so it was April 26th 1866 before […]
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCISFOR LENT 2016 “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice” (Mt 9:13).The works of mercy on the road of the Jubilee 1. Mary, the image of a Church which evangelizes because she is evangelized In the Bull of Indiction of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, I asked that “the season of Lent in […]
Address by Bishop Leo O’Reilly, Bishop of Kilmore, at the ecumenical service to celebrate Church Unity Week 2016 Church of Ireland, Cavan 24 January 2016 My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, it is good that we are here during this week of prayer for Christian unity to pray together and to express the faith that […]
MASS FOR CLOSING OF YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE Cathedral of St Patrick and St Felim Cavan 31 January 2016 It is providential that the Year of Consecrated Life ends some weeks after the beginning of the Jubilee Year of Mercy. The intersection of the two years points to an important link between mission of consecrated […]
During a penitential service at St. Peter’s Basilica on 12th March 2015, Pope Francis announced the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, which would begin later in the year on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 8th December, extending to the Solemnity of Christ the King 20th November 2016. The scriptural focus for […]
MASS FOR CLOSING OF YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE Cathedral of St Patrick and St Felim Cavan 31 January 2016 It is providential that the Year of Consecrated Life ends some weeks after the beginning of the Jubilee Year of Mercy. The intersection of the two years points to an important link between mission of consecrated […]
CHURCH UNITY WEEK Church of Ireland, Cavan 24 January 2016 My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, it is good that we are here during this week of prayer for Christian unity to pray together and to express the faith that we share in common. We are already united by the Spirit living in […]
