On this Rosary Sunday we come as a diocese on pilgrimage to Knock. We come here to meet with Christ and with Mary. We come here with all our own troubles and worries and thanks. We bring our illnesses in the hope that this meeting, this encounter will allow God...
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Bishop Fleming’s Homily at the Killala Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes
The GrottoMass at the Grotto is the highlight of every pilgrimage to Lourdes. For this Grotto is the place where, first of all, St Bernadette met the Virgin Mary, on 18 occasions between 11 February and 16 July 1858. It is the place to which countless millions...
Homily at Golden Jubilee Mass for Monsignor Martin Keveny
This evening as a parish community we gather to mark the Golden Jubilee of the ordination of a son of this parish, Monsignor Martin Keveny. We do so in a spirit of genuine gratitude to God for the witness and the service given by him over all these years. We do...
Diocesan Launch of Laudato Si
One evening recently, I was walking on the town side of the River Moy. I looked across at the Cathedral and then my eye followed the Moy until I noticed the trees around the house in which I live. I suddenly realized that the grounds of that house, rather than...
Bishop Fleming’s Homily at Novena to St. Maria Goretti in Collooney
“The Door of Mercy is always open to everyone.”This is the theme given to me at the beginning of this Novena.Some years ago I drove down to Nettuno from Rome. I visited the home of Maria Goretti and I will never forget the effect that my visit had on me. I...
Bishop Fleming’s Homily at the Diocesan Jubilee Mass
This evening as a diocesan community we gather to mark the Golden, Ruby and Silver anniversaries of the ordination of six sons of this diocese. We do so in a spirit of genuine gratitude to God for the witness and the service given by these men over all these...
Fr. Kevin Hegarty’s Address
Whenever two or three priests gather stories are often told of other priests. In the diocese of Killala many stories are told of Canon Michael James Kilgallon, a native of Ballina and for over 40 years parish priest of Kilmore Erris.As a chaplain in the First...
Bishop Fleming’s Address
The Irish priest historian.Begley. Limerick.Cogan. Meath.Corrigan. Ossory.Swords. Achonry.D’Alton. Tuam.Maguire. Raphoe.These are the names of some distinguished Irish priest historians from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Fr. Brendan Hoban’s Address
My interest in history started in the Boys’ National School on the Glen Road in Ballycastle where my father, God rest him, opened up the pages of Irish history and I got my first childish glimpse of how important the past is if we want to understand the...
Diocesan Launch of Fr. Brendan Hoban’s New Book
The Diocese of Killala invites you to a launch by Bishop John Fleming of Fr. Brendan Hoban's new book, Telling the Story, A Dictionary of Killala Clergy in the Newman Institute, Ballina on Thursday June 2nd, 2016 at 8.00pm. All welcome.Refreshments will be served.