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...

The Bishop of Kilmore, Most Reverend Leo O’Reilly, has announced the appointment of Ms. Carina McGinnell as the new Diocesan Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry. Ms. McGinnell is a native of the parish of Denn and studied in Loreto College in Cavan before undertaking third-level and post-graduate studies at the Mater Dei Institute...

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke (19:28-40) Jesus went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. Now when he was near Bethpage and Bethany, close by the Mount of Olives as it is called, he sent two of the disciples, telling them, “Go off to the village opposite, and as you enter it...

People can be so cruel to one another.  The joy of life is often stolen from us by people seeking to entrap us or pass judgement on our actions or those of others.  Here Jesus encounters such people with a narrow judgemental mind-set ready to punish the woman in order to achieve their own political...

In this Year of Mercy, the parable of the Prodigal Son, one of the most human and emotional encounters in the Gospels, is so fitting for reflection.  When we stray away from the Lord, no matter what we have done, we are confident and assured he will always accept us back through the Sacrament of...