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...

BOOK LAUNCH – THE DIOCESE OF KILMORE c.1100-1800: Cardinal Seán Brady will launch Monsignor Liam Kelly’s new book, “The Diocese of Kilmore c.1100-1800”, in the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cullies, Cavan, on Thursday 26 October 2017 at 8:00p.m.  Copies of the book, published by Columba Press, will be on sale on the night at a...

  KILMORE PREPARES FOR THE WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES 2018 – The Diocese of Kilmore celebrated the countdown to the 2018 World Meeting of Families at a recent event in the Cathedral of SS. Patrick & Felim, Cavan.  All 34 parishes in Kilmore were invited to send representatives to the ceremony at which Bishop Leo O’Reilly...

Over 70 young people from around the Diocese attended our first ever Diocesan Youth Day on Saturday last in the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre. A Redemptorist group from Esker Co. Galway led us in the first part of the day. From 2:00p.m. to 5:00p.m., there were a variety of workshops for the young people. They...

The Children’s Remembrance Event 2017: Remembering Pregnancy Loss, and the Babies and Children who have died within our community. An invitation is extended to families, siblings and anyone affected by loss within the childhood years to attend this year’s event which takes place on Saturday 21 October 2017 in St. Aidan’s Church Butlersbridge at 2:30p.m. (Please note the change of day and venue)  Light...

KILMORE DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO FATIMA – A group of pilgrims from across the Diocese of Kilmore and beyond travelled to Fatima recently to mark the centenary of the Apparitions there.  The group had a full programme of spiritual exercises during the course of the week-long pilgrimage which included a trip to Lisbon to visit places associated...

            FOURTH ANNUAL NOVENA TO MARY, UNTIER OF KNOTS 2017 –  The fourth annual novena to Mary, Untier of Knots, will take place from Monday 25 September to Tuesday 3 October 2017 inclusive, in the Cathedral of SS. Patrick & Felim, Cavan, with a Novena Mass each evening at 7:30p.m....