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Easter Vineyard & Diocesan Directory

Easter Vineyard & Diocesan Directory

  The Easter issue of the Vineyard will be available in parishes this weekend. As well as containing 80 pages of beautiful photographs and articles on a variety of events throughout the diocese, this issue also contains the Killala Diocesan Directory. In his...

Celebrate St. Patrick

Celebrate St. Patrick

    According to Patrician scholar, Máire B. de Paor, the evidence of St Patrick's Confession favours Silva Focluti, the Wood of Fochaill, on the western shore of Killala Bay, as the location of the six years Patrick spent in captivity in Ireland. If that's...

Ash Wednesday – March 1st

Ash Wednesday – March 1st

  Repent and believe the Good News!! Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 1st. The season of Lent provides us with another opportunity to draw closer to God. Sometimes we only associate the word 'repent' with being sorry, but from a faith perspective, to 'repent'...

Trócaire Lenten Resources

Trócaire Lenten Resources

  Lent begins on Wednesday 1 March. Trócaire, the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church has developed a new series of educational resources for use by schools and youth groups.  Trócaire’s Lent 2017 educational resources focus on climate change,...

Message of Pope Francis for Lent

Message of Pope Francis for Lent

  MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR LENT 2017 “The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift” Dear Brothers and Sisters, Lent is a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death. This season urgently calls us to...

Concert in aid of Cathedral Restoration

Concert in aid of Cathedral Restoration

St. Muredach’s Cathedral Choir with special guests St. Mary’s Secondary School and Fr. Ray Kelly present Raise Your Voices St. Muredach’s Cathedral Friday February 3rd at 8.00pm.

Message of Pope Francis

Message of Pope Francis

The World Day of Migrants and Refugees is marked on Sunday 15 January, 2017. Pope Francis has chosen to focus on the theme of Child Migrants, the Vulnerable and the Voiceless for his 2017 message.