Meditating with Mary in the Month of May

Date: 2024-05-08

Mary, full of God's grace, opened her heart so fully to God that His Word became incarnate in her womb, in the person of Jesus and through the powe...

Homily - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Bishop McKeown

Date: 2024-05-07

This is a time when there is much need for renewal in the church. The purpose of renewal is not to make the church strong and make ourselves feel i...

The Net - April 2024

Date: 2024-04-24

The April 2024 edition of 'The Net', the monthly publication sharing the fruits of the faith in our parish communities within the Diocese of Derry ...

Homily - Good Shepherd Sunday - Bishop McKeown

Date: 2024-04-22

Sunday, 21 April 2024 Year B When we think that we are in charge of the Church's future or that we know the simple solution to our problems, we are...

Leading God's People in Prayer

Date: 2024-04-22

Could you lead prayer in your parish? Could you make an impact on other people's prayer life? Is your parish in the Diocese of Derry? You are invit...

St. Pachomius

Date: 2024-04-22

St. Pachomius

Feast date: May 09

St. Pachomius can justifiabley be called the founder of cenobitic monasticism, monks who live in community. Even though St. Antony the Great was the first to go into the desert to live a life of seclusion pursuing evangelical perfection, he lived a heremitic life, that is, a primarily solitary life.

Pachomius first started out as a hermit in the desert, like many of the other men and women in the third and fourth centuries who sought the most radical expression of Christian life. There he developed a very strong bond of friendship with the hermit Palemon. One day during prayer, he had a vision in which he was called to build a monaste...