The Christian radio station, Spirit Radio has reached a weekly listenership of over half a million people, according to a new survey. To mark the station’s fifth year broadcasting it commissioned a poll carried out by Amarách Research which showed that listenership has doubled in the last two years. CEO of Spirit Radio, Rob Clarke…
The parish of Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone took on an ambitious project back in 2014 with the complete stripping out and refurbishment of the 170-year-old St Patrick’s Church. However, the fundraising and hard work has now paid off as they once again celebrate Mass in the breath-taking surrounds of one of the first churches built after…
This year marks the centenary of perhaps one of the best known churches in the Diocese of Down and Connor – St Mary’s Star of the Sea, Portstewart, Co. Derry. Celebrations to mark this piece of parish history got under way with the launch of a book setting out the story of the seaside church…
An innovative Lenten project in the Derry diocese has received huge interest with thousands of orders coming from Irish dioceses and abroad. The Lenten scratch cards, or calendars, are produced by Thornhill Ministries as a catechetical tool and a novel way of helping people to engage with the Lenten journey. This is the third year of…
Last week in a ceremony in the parish centre in Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow Bishop Denis Nulty and CofI Bishop Michael Burrows launched the joint diocesan pilgrimage to Echternach, Luxembourg which will take place in June 2017. Both bishops will lead the pilgrimage which will partake in the annual ‘Hopping Procession’ in honour of St Willibrord,…
The Family Centre at Knock Shrine, along with the gardening team, will plant a snowdrop this spring on the grounds of the shrine in memory of all deceased children enrolled in the Knock Book of Remembrance. On Sunday, February 7 at 3pm the bulbs will be blessed and all the deceased children and their parents…
Mags Gargan visits the Living Water young adult Charismatic prayer group Every Wednesday night as the shops on Dublin’s nearby Grafton Street begin to close their shutters and office workers met up for after work drinks or dinner, a group of young people are gathering at St Teresa’s church, Clarendon Street for praise and worship.…
Sr Angela Hurley FMM died peacefully in St Joseph’s Convent, Rush, Co. Dublin at the age of 90. Originally from Cork, she pronounced her first vows at Loughglynn, Co. Roscommon and in 1949 sailed to her new mission in South India. Her leadership skills came to fruition initially as superior of the University College, Stella…
Catholic schools should not be governed by league tables or results, but by mercy and inclusion, according to the head of the Catholic primary schools body. Fr Tom Deenihan, General Secretary of the Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA), said the danger of focusing on league tables is that “we would value the educationally gifted…
A Co. Mayo parish priest is on a mission to improve his parishioners’ health with an Operation Transformation fitness programme under the slogan ‘pray together, weigh together’. Based on the health and fitness programme airing on RTÉ One, 52 parishioners in Tourmakeady are going for regular walks and fitness classes with their PP Fr John…