Diocesan Pastoral Centre launches new website
The Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre has launched its new updated website, www.kilmoredpc.ie, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Centre’s official opening.
Bishop Leo O’Reilly welcomed the launch and, in a statement, quoted Pope Francis who wrote, “The internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.”
Bishop O’Reilly said that the new website is one such possibility. “It is a gift from God to our diocese and to all who wish to access it”. He thanked the Director of the Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Sean Coll, for co-ordinating the creation of “this very important means of communication”. The bishop expressed the hope that the new website “will serve to promote the ‘encounter and solidarity’ Pope Francis spoke of. He concluded by saying, “I pray that the website will be a source of hope and inspiration for those who use it as they journey in faith.”
Centre Director, Seán Coll, said that “the development of a good communications strategy is critical to ensure the success of what we do in the Diocesan Pastoral Centre. The availability of the website, our presence on other social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and the publication of our newsletter ‘Glad Tidings’ three times a year, will help in that regard.” He thanked those who developed and maintained the initial website over the past number of years and hoped that the updated site would prove to be an effective means of sharing information about events and activities in the Centre to a wider audience.
He paid tribute to Sandor Gera and his team at GetOnline Pro (Web Development and Web Design) in Dublin who worked with him in redesigning the website which, he said, will support and promote the activities of the Centre as well as other pastoral initiatives throughout the diocese of Kilmore.
He said that he was keen to ensure the website would prove to be an interesting, user-friendly and useful resource for the priests, religious and people of the diocese and further afield and would welcome feedback on its content and future development.
At the launch of the new website are from left Fr. Ultan McGoohan, Chair of Board of Management; Most Rev. Leo O’Reilly, Bishop of Kilmore; Sean Coll, Director of the Diocesan Pastoral Centre; and Fr. Enda Murphy, Diocesan Director of Pastoral Services & Youth Ministry. (Photo: Lorraine Teevan)
At the launch of the new website are seated from left Most Rev. Leo O’Reilly, Bishop of Kilmore; Anne Clarke, Pastoral Centre Administration; and Fr. Enda Murphy, Diocesan Director of Pastoral Services & Youth Ministry. At back from left Fr. Ultan McGoohan, Chair of the Board of Management; Sean Coll, Pastoral Centre Director; Nancy Shiels, Diocesan CPSMA Secretary; Jennifer O’Reilly, Diocesan Finance Officer; and Suzie Duffy, Director of the Kilmore Diocesan Safeguarding Committee. (Photo: Lorraine Teevan)