SYNOD: AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE This weekend Pope Francis opens the pathway for a Universal Synod that will take place in Rome in 2023.  This Synod will be a gathering that takes place after all the local Churches have shared their contribution on the experience of journeying together in Communion, Participation and Mission.  … 

THE PRISONS WEEK PRAYER Lord, you offer freedom to all people. We pray for those in prison. Break the bonds of fear and isolation that exist. Support with your love prisoners and their families and friends, prison staff and all who care. Heal those who have been wounded by the actions of others, especially the… 

Message of the Irish Catholic Bishops for the Day for Life – 3rd Oct. 2021 The fragility of life and the reality of death have been brought into sharp focus during the Covid-19 pandemic. In Ireland alone, more than 8,000 people have died with Covid-19. Each of these lives is precious and every life matters…. 

Over the next 4 weeks Fr Gerard McCloskey PP in Ardglass will be leading live prayer reflections during Eucharistic Adoration.  Monday evenings at 8.30pm Monday 20 September Monday 27 September Monday 4 October Monday 11 October

Priests’ Welfare Fund Appeal Letter (Sept 2021)

1500 year Celebration of St Colmcille/Columba The  7th of December 2021 marks the 1500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Colmcille/Columba at Gartan in Co Donegal. The Colmcille 1500 Committee of the Raphoe Diocese is cooperating with others in Counties Donegal and Derry in creating a database of all institutions linked to the Saint. If… 

“Westminster has imposed an unjust law” – Northern Catholic Bishops oppose abortion services We encourage everyone who believes in the equal right to life and compassionate care for a mother and her unborn child to ask local candidates and political parties to explain their position on these interventions and on this most fundamental of all… 

Online Summer School 2021   Theology of the Arts. Does the Church Need Art? This summer we are offering a repeat of the 2018 one-week online summer school motivated by a significant question posed by Pope John Paul II in his Letter to Artists: Does the Church Need Art? Six lectures will examine current theological… 

JOB OPPORTUNITY – PARISH SECRETARY NEWTOWNARDS – VICARATE PARISHES

Ask your MP to vote against abortion up to birth The abortion lobby, led by the UK’s largest abortion provider, BPAS, has worked with Diana Johnson MP to bring forward an amendment to hijack the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill to introduce abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth to England and…