Message of the Holy Father for the tenth World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

Date: 2025-08-27

Pope: God's creation is not a battleground for vital resources In his Message for the 10th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Leo X...

Season of Creation 2025

Date: 2025-08-27

This year's Season of Creation has as its theme "Peace with Creation", inspired by the passage from Isaiah 32:14-18; "My people will abide in a pea...

Diocese of Derry Safeguarding Annual Report 2024

Date: 2025-08-18

The Annual Report 2024 of the Diocese of Derry's Child Safeguarding Committee, detailing safeguarding activities, personnel, training, and complian...

Pray for Gaza for 24 hours on Sunday 24 August

Date: 2025-08-14

Parishes across Ireland are invited to unite once more in a Day of Prayer and Reflection for Gaza on 24th August  On Sunday, 24 August 2025, p...

Considering the Priesthood? Join us for Mass, Conversation & Discernment – August 24th in Derry

Date: 2025-08-13

A gathering for anyone considering a vocation to diocesan priesthood will take place in Waterside Parish Hall on Sunday, 24 August 2025.  Anyo...

Sts. Cosmas and Damian

Date: 2025-08-13

Sts. Cosmas and Damian

Feast date: Sep 26

Saints Cosmas and Damian were twins born to Christian parents in Arabia, in the third century. They lived in the region around the border between modern day Turkey and Syria. They were physicians who were renowned for their skill as well as their refusal to charge for their services.

Their charity and Christian witness won many converts to the faith and earned them a place of prominence in the Christian communites of Asia Minor. Therefore, when the Diocletian persecutions began in the latter half of the third century they were of some of the first to be sought out for execution.

In 287, they were captured and ordered to...