Hundreds of people, young and old alike, from across the diocese of Kilmore and beyond visited the Chapel of the Diocesan Pastoral Centre in Cavan recently to pray before the relics of St. Oliver Plunkett. The relics arrived at the Centre at 10:00a.m. and Fr. Donal Kilduff, Diocesan Secretary, conducted a welcoming liturgy. The relics...

The latest edition of Glad Tidings – the newsletter of the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre – has been published and is available to read online from www.kilmoredpc.ie GT 6 Final Version

Thursday 19 May 2016 – St. Clare’s National School, Manorhamilton, with Fr. Joseph Bulman OP, Holy Cross Friary, Sligo Wednesday 25 May 2016 – Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cullies, Cavan, with Fr. Michael Mc Grath, CC Longford 7:30p.m. to 9:30p.m. on both evenings Subscription – €5, please All Ministers of Holy Communion are invited to attend

Relics of St. Oliver Plunkett will visit the Chapel of the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral CentreCullies, Cavan Town, on Tuesday 7 June 2016 • The relic will arrive at the Centre at 10:00a.m. and will be available for veneration until 10:00p.m. that evening • Sacrament of Reconciliation: 12 noon to 1:00p.m.; 4:30p.m. to 5:30p.m.; and 6:30p.m....

DARKNESS INTO LIGHT 2016 – a 5km Charity Walk in aid of Pieta House, the Suicide and Self-Harm Crisis Centre, will take place next Saturday morning, 7 May, in Cavan Town. The walk will begin at 4:15a.m. at Cavan Equestrian Centre in Latt and proceed through the grounds of St. Patrick’s College and the Kilmore...

The Honorable Denis Coderre, Mayor of the Canadian city of Montréal, paid a short visit to Cavan on Saturday 30 April last.  He was accompanied by Monsieur Howard Liebman, Special Advisor to the Mayor; Madame Dominique Poirier, International Relations Commissioner for the City of Montréal; and Madame Marie-Claude Therrien, International Relations Advisor for the City...

SAFETALK TRAINING – Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre – Wednesday 11 May 2016 from 9:30a.m. to 1:00p.m. SAFETALK is a half day training programme that prepares participants to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. These specific skills are called suicide alertness and are taught with the expectation that...

For the past number of years, the local faith development group in the Diocese of Galway, tSli Chriost,has produced and distributed a May altar leaflet in order to spread knowledge of and devotion to Our Lady through the erection of May altars. These leaflets have proved popular with parishionersthroughout the Diocese of Galway with homes, schools and churches taking...

Easter has fallen early this year. While Christmas has a certain sentimental glamour attached to it, people as they grow older often discover a deeper appreciation of Easter. With the exception of the ubiquitous chocolate eggs, Easter is not colonised by commercialism to the extent that Christmas is. The story of the passion of Jesus...

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...