Ash Wednesday falls on 17 February and heralds the beginning of Lent 2021.  This year Knock Shrine will host a new series of online discussions to help engage Christians during Lent, under the title ‘Living Christian Faith – Lenten Conversations’.   What nurtures our faith and what challenges it today? Where do we find hope...

Mass for Catholic Schools Week – Wednesday, January 27, 2021 in the Cathedral of St. Patrick & St. Felim celebrated by Bishop Martin Hayes. Welcome. You are welcome as you join us here in the Cathedral of St. Patrick and St Felim in Cavan Town.  Usually, I would meet you in your school community.  However,...

Month’s Memory Mass – Fr. Eugene Clarke P.E. R.I.P.:  The Month’s Memory Mass for the late Fr. Eugene Clarke P.E. R.I.P. will be celebrated in St. Anne’s Church, Bailieborough, at 7:00p.m. on Saturday 30 January 2021. Due to current restrictions, the Mass will be live-streamed on the following link https://www.churchservices.tv/stannesbailieborough May Fr. Eugene rest in...

Message of Pope Francis for 55th World Communications Day 2021 Message of Pope Francis for 55th World Communications Day 2021 “Come and See” (Jn 1:46) Communicating by Encountering People as They Are Dear Brothers and Sisters, The invitation to “come and see”, which was part of those first moving encounters of Jesus with the disciples, is also...

Issue 61 of Sharing the Good News (January 2021) published by the Catholic Communications Office of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, can be accessed at the following link: Sharing the Good News January 2021 The current issue can also be linked to and downloaded from the home page of www.catholicbishops.ie.  The January 2021 issue features articles...

A Diocesan Mass for Post-Primary Students, Teachers, and Parents/Guardians to mark Catholic Schools Week 2021 will be celebrated in the Cathedral of SS. Patrick & Felim, Cavan, at 11:00a.m. on Wednesday 27 January 2021.  The celebrant will be Bishop Martin Hayes. The Mass will be livestreamed and can be viewed by logging on to www.churchservices.tv/cavancathedral 

Irish Bishops’ Conference statement: “Welcoming vaccines for the Common Good” The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference welcomes the encouraging news that a number of vaccines for COVID-19 are at an advanced stage of preparation and are likely to be available for use in the near future.  The Catholic Church recognises that safe and effective vaccination is...

  Sunday of the Word of God 2021:   In his Apostolic Letter of 30 September 2019, ‘Aperuit illis’ Pope Francis established that the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time is to be the Sunday of the Word of God. He had already proposed something similar at the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. Sunday...

Catholic Schools Week 2021 will be celebrated from Sunday 24 January to Sunday 31 January 2021 on the theme ‘Catholic Schools: Communities of Faith and Resilience’. As we live through an unprecedented time of challenge and uncertainty, our faith and our resilience can be tested. We can ask questions like ‘Will things ever be the...