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...

Synod - Towards October 2024

Date: 2024-04-12

Between the XVI Assembly of October 2023 and the XVI Assembly planned for October 2024, the local Churches and the groupings of Churches are invite...

Homily - Divine Mercy Sunday - Bishop McKeown

Date: 2024-04-10

Do we greet the unfamiliar face that we have never seen before? Do we look beyond our circle of friends and greet those who may come from a differe...

Homily - Easter 2024 - Bishop McKeown

Date: 2024-03-31

Easter is a time for many commemorations and celebrations. For some is remains a religious festival that just marks the end of Lent. For others in ...

Sts. Caius and Soter

Date: 2024-03-31

Sts. Caius and Soter

Feast date: Apr 22

Cauis and Soter, Popes of the early Church, are both venerated in tradition as martyrs, though no reliable account of their martyrdom survives today.

St. Soter was born in Fundi, in Italy. The date of his birth is unknown but we know that he was Pope for eight years from 166 until his death in 174.

Soter´s papacy was an example of what seems to have been the remarkable tradition of generosity exercised by the bishop of Rome. This tradition and Soter´s personal charity and paternal love for his universal flock can be evidenced from a letter to Pope Soter by Bishop St. Dionysus of Corinth, quoted in the 4th century “Eccl...