Year of Faith: Newsletters

INTRODUCTION

The “door of faith” is opened at baptism, but during this year Catholics are called to open it again, walk through it and rediscover and renew...

CHRISTMAS

Kindness and truth, justice and peace have met; they have become incarnate in the child born of Mary in Bethlehem...

ADVENT

Every Advent is a time to prepare for the coming of Christ in our lives, but Advent during this Year of Faith is a particularly good time to deepen our knowledge...

ASH WEDNESDAY

We begin the season of Lent with ashes on our foreheads. What does this smudging symbolise? The heart understands better than the head...

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER

St Paul declared: “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain”. Our faith is anchored...

LENT

Too much work, anxiety and a relentless stress are filling our days and nights. It takes great courage to set about regaining...

PENTECOST

The Spirit remains at the heart of the Church, directing us towards the future.  We should like to have a glimpse of that future...

EMBRACING CHANGE

Many parishes in the Diocese of Galloway no longer have parish priests and therefore parishioners are trying to form...

PRIESTLY MINISTRY

Being ordained as ministerial priests in the Church means not only being sent out into the world to proclaim the Good News as willing servants...

THE NEW EVANGELISATION

A Church of the heart: For Francis, faith enters the church through the heart of the poor, not through the heads of intellectuals...

SACRAMENTAL REFLECTION

In the sacrament of Baptism is expressed the living and active presence of the Holy Spirit who, enriching the Church...

EVANGELICAL CATHOLICISM

Following everything which Father O’Mahoney had presented to us on the New Evangelisation, we provide an extract from a new book by George Weigel...

HANDING ON YOUR FAITH

From its beginning Christianity has been characterised as a movement of tradition.  When most Catholics are asked what tradition means...