Diocese of Elphin Launch of Catholic School’s Week 2016 Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Sligo Sunday 31st of January 2016 Homily: Rev Michael Duignan, EV   This year Catholic Schools Week challenges us to stop and ask: Along with providing an excellent education: Is my school really a place of forgiveness? Is my school really...

  Homily given by Bishop Kevin – 51st International Eucharistic Congress  Parish of our Lady of Perpetual Help, Cebu 1. A Challenging Gospel: The Gospel reading of the Sower to which we have listened this evening is the one that was proclaimed at the Mass of my episcopal ordination in July 2014. It is a very challenging passage,...

Promoting a Culture of Life Address Given by Bishop Kevin Doran at the Clarion Hotel Sligo, 24th November 2015 (event organised by Family & Life)   *Pauline’s Baby (not real name) About two days after my ordination to the priesthood, and before I was even appointed to any formal ministry, my mother asked me if I...

(St John’s Church, Carraroe, Sligo, Friday 6th November 2015) Like most people, I love hope filled moments, and I am delighted to be here with you to celebrate this important moment in your journey as you graduate from St. Angela’s College. I want to begin by testing your memory. Look for a safe place Don’t hurry,...

I want to begin this morning by sharing with you a few words from Pope Francis. He says: The creation accounts in the book of Genesis contain, in their own symbolic and narrative language, profound teachings about human existence and its historical reality. They suggest that human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely...

I welcome you to this gathering, in the name of all the people of the diocese. I could begin by thanking you for all that you do in the diocese, in education, in the care of the sick, in parish ministry, in working with migrants and in supporting prayer ministry. But this is just what...

On the face of it, today’s Gospel reading seems to be “just another healing” in the ministry of Jesus. But, of course, there is no such thing as “just another healing” for the person who is healed. This man was a human being, a person like ourselves. It is, perhaps worth noting that this miracle...

I want to begin by thanking you for being here. I know you have enjoyed it, but I imagine you were also challenged by aspects of your mission. I will begin by sharing with you some words from St John. “We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard...

Giving thanks is a central theme in the writing and preaching of St. Paul. I think it comes, in the first place, from a deep down sense of gratitude for everything that God has done in his own life and especially for the experience of the Risen Jesus. Today, St. Paul encourages us, “always and...

(For English translation, see below) Seachtain iontach don Bhia, don Cheol agus don Chairdeas Seachtain iontach a bhí ann i Sligeach don cheol, don bhia agus d’athnuachan cairdis. Tá bia mar íomhá lárnach sna sleachta ón Scrioptúr ar an Domhnach seo, agus sinn ag leanúint sraith sleachta Soiscéil ó theagasc Íosa mar gheall ar Arán...