From today, and every week, the Catholic Communications Office will issue a double-sided newsletter Choose Life 2018 for circulation. Choose Life 2018 promotes the Church’s position on unborn human life and encourages family discussion on this important issue. Issue One is attached.

Looking after your mental health at Christmas:  The Christmas and New Year period is a particularly vulnerable time for people and there is evidence of an increase in self-harm presentations to emergency departments during this time. For more information, please see: www.yourmentalhealth.ie/mind-yourself/good-mental-health/feel-well/christmas/  SUPPORT SERVICES     Call 999 if it is a crisis.     Your GP will...

Christmas & New Year Arrangements – The Diocesan Pastoral Centre will be closed to the public from 12:30p.m. on Thursday 21 December 2017 and will re-open at 9:00a.m. on Monday 8 January 2018. The Centre Team wish you and yours every blessing this Christmas time and throughout the New Year.

  Ex Umbra in Lucem – Diocesan Pastoral Centre prepares for Christmas:  A beautiful ecumenical service was held in the Conaty Chapel of the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre on Monday 4 December last to mark the beginning of the season of Advent, preparing for the great feast of Christmas. The traditional service of Lessons and...

KILMORE DIOCESAN PASTORAL CENTRE LAUNCHES “BACK TO THE OLD ST. PAT’S” FUNDRAISING EVENT 2018 –    Seán Gallagher, the well-known entrepreneur, columnist and speaker, launched a fundraising event for the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre in Cavan at a special event in the Centre last Thursday evening in the presence of former presidents, principals,staff and students...

This evening, Seán Gallagher, the well-known entrepreneur, columnist and speaker, will launch a fundraising event for the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre in Cavan. The event, called “Back to the Old St. Pat’s”, will take place in the grounds of the Centre on Sunday 6 May 2018 and it is hoped that as many former students...

EX UMBRA IN LUCEM – FROM SHADOW INTO LIGHT: There will be an Advent Service of Readings and Carols in the Conaty Chapel of the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cullies, Cavan, on Monday 4 December 2017 at 7:30p.m. led by the Lassus Scholars and their director, Dr. Ite O’Donovan with Simon Harden as organist.  As...

SUCCESSFUL LITURGY WORKSHOP IN GLENFARNE: There was a large attendance at the recent Liturgy Workshop held in St. Michael’s National School in Glenfarne last Tuesday night. Fr. Turlough Baxter, CC Athlone and a priest of the diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnois, facilitated the workshop which was on the theme of preparing for Advent and Christmas. ...

  FORTHCOMING LITURGY WORKSHOPS – PREPARING FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS: Tuesday 7 November 2017 in St. Michael’s National School, Glenfarne at 7:30p.m. – Facilitated by Fr. Turlough Baxter, CC Athlone. Tuesday 28 November 2017 in the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cavan at 7:30p.m. – Facilitated by Jane Ferguson, National Council for Liturgy, Maynooth Admission Free...

The Annual Kilmore Diocesan John Paul II Awards Ceremony took place recently in the Cavan Crystal Hotel, outside Cavan Town. Bishop Leo O’Reilly attended the ceremony and presented the awards.  Alan O’Mara (former Cavan Senior GAA Goalkeeper and author of “The Best is Yet to Come – A memoir about football and finding a way...