On the 5th June Sisters Mercy from the Philippines and Trinh from Vietnam will graduate from their year’s programme at Loreto House in Dublin. They participated in the Religious Formation Ministry Programme, a one year course offered by the Irish Missionary Union.  The Programme addresses the task of preparing women and men in a cross cultural setting for the ministry ...

On the evening of Sunday 26th April, Vocations Sunday, over three hundred people from the Diocese and beyond gathered in Saint Eugene’s Cathedral to mark the Year of Consecrated Life.   This was a significant moment for on this day the names of those in consecrated life who originally come from the diocese and who minister in the diocese in other ...

One of our Sisters tells the story of her young grand-nephew of 4 years old. Having been told something by his grandmother and been warned that it was a secret, just between the two of them, she said, “Don’t let the cat out of the bag!” He was very good, even though he struggled to keep the secret to himself. ...

On March 25, we celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of Sr Joan Ryan, here in Wealdstone. It was a really lovely community day with the four communities from the London area coming together to celebrate. Fr Noel, the Salvatorian celebrated the Mass in 192 High Street and there we had pre-dinner drinks, after which we all went over to Spencer Road ...

This year is a special year for the Salvatorian Fathers because they are celebrating their Missionary year. On Wednesday 15th April, the Sisters from the Wealdstone communities were invited to a Mass in St Joseph’s Church to mark the end of their Chapter. We have also joined with them in planning events in honour of the Year of Consecrated life. ...

Over the past few weeks in our readings from the Word of God, we have heard accounts of the reaction of different groups of people to Jesus’ resurrection. From disbelief, amazement, astonishment, they have come to accept the fact that Jesus Christ has truly risen. This has meant a profound change in their understanding of and attitude to Jesus and ...

Most of us associate the words ‘a call’ with a vocation to the Priesthood or the Religious Life, but in fact we are all called through our Baptism and our Confirmation to be witnesses to God in the world. How we do that, is different for all of us, you as married or single, and us as Religious or Priests. Pope ...

LAUNCH OF YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE – DUBLIN DIOCESAN ADVENT SERVICE – CHURCH OF ST. PIUS X TEMPLEOGUE On November the 29th 2014 Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Dublin and Sr. Elizabeth Cotter, Vicar for Religious, invited each Congregation to bring an Advent Wreath with them to the Service and have it blessed by Archbishop Martin so as to launch the ...

During the service of light in the Easter ceremony, the priest says, ‘may this new fire enflame us with hope’. What is our hope? to walk from now on “in newness of life” and to live with Christ forever in heaven. Lent prepared us for receiving newness of life. The first reading on the last Sunday of Lent read, ‘I ...