Penitential Prayer Service for Apostolic Visitation

APOSTOLIC VISITATION TO THE ARCHDIOCESE OF TUAM
Penitential Service
Cathedral of the Assumption
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
[Texts: Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-12; Psalm 51; Mark 10:13-16]
Homily of Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, Archbishop of Ottawa
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ:
This evening, I begin my homiletical remarks with a sincere note of thanks to Archbishop Michael Neary for his welcome. He has [...]

Eucharistic Congress Gathering – Advent 2010

The 50th international Eucharistic Congress will be held in Dublin in Summer of 2012. Each diocese is to have various events to prepare for this event in order to deepen and renew people’s understanding and appreciation of the Eucharist. On Sunday, November 28th such an event was held in Tuam Cathedral. People [...]

Homily of Archbishop Michael for Pro Life vigil

Homily for the Vigil for all Nascent Human Life in Knock
27th November, 2010.
Introduction: Beginning of Vigil.
I welcome you all as we are about to celebrate the Church’s New Year, the 1st Sunday of Advent. During this year the Gospel of Matthew will figure largely in the readings in our Masses. At our meeting [...]

Statement of Archbishop Neary on the retirement of Bishop Henderson

Statement of Archbishop Michael Neary on the retirement of Bishop Richard Henderson, Church of Ireland Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry to take up a new post in the diocese of Carlisle, Church of England.
Since 1998, we here in Ireland have been privileged to know and work closely with Bishop Richard Henderson. His departure [...]

Archbishop Neary welcomes the Apostolic Visitation

Archbishop Neary would like to extend a warm word of welcome to the Apostolic Visitation team, Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa and Prof. James Conn, SJ of the Gregorian University in Rome. The Archdiocese very much looks forward to their visit and very earnestly hopes that it will continue the process of healing and [...]

Advent Letter of Archbishop Michael Neary to Priests of Archdiocese

24th November, 2010.
Dear Father,
As we celebrate the First Sunday of Advent there is a growing recognition of the need for prayer for our country and our Church at this time. We live in a fearful society. People are feeling lost, helpless, anxious and angry. Crises everywhere abound. It is the truth of biblical faith [...]

Oscott College

Pope Benedict’s Address at Oscott College
19/09/2010 5:40 pm
Oscott College, Sunday, 19 September 2010
My dear Brother Bishops,
This has been a day of great joy for the Catholic community in these islands. Blessed John Henry Newman, as we may now call him, has been raised to the altars as an example of heroic faithfulness to the Gospel [...]

Angeles at Crofton Park

Pope’s Angelus Address at Cofton Park
By Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday, 19 September 2010
Brothers and Sisters in Jesus Christ,
I am pleased to send my greetings to the people of Seville where, just yesterday, Madre María de la Purísima de la Cruz was beatified. May Blessed María be an inspiration to young women to [...]

Pope’s Westminster Homily

Homily of Pope Benedict XVI at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday 18 September 2010
Dear friends in Christ,
I greet all of you with the joy in the Lord and I thank you for your warm reception. I am grateful to Archbishop Nichols for his words of welcome on your behalf. Truly, in this meeting of the [...]

Pope Benedict – Evening Prayer address

Pope’s Address at Evening Prayer Friday 17 September 2010
Dear friends in Christ,
I thank the Lord for this opportunity to join you, the representatives of the Christian confessions present in Great Britain, in this magnificent Abbey Church dedicated to Saint Peter, whose architecture and history speak so eloquently of our common heritage of faith. Here we [...]

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