Dates for First Communion 2024: Friday 3rd May 2024: Oakgrove Primary School, 2:00pm St Columb’s Church Friday 10th May 2024: Good Shepherd Primary School, 11:00am & 1:00pm St Columb’s Church Saturday 11th May 2024: St Columba’s Primary School, 11:00am St Mary’s Oratory, Saturday 11th May 2024: St Oliver Plunkett Primary School, 11:00am St Oliver Plunkett …
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Confirmation Dates 2024
Confirmation Dates and Times for 2024 Thursday 29th February: St Oliver Plunkett Primary School, 1:00pm St Oliver Plunkett Church, Strathfoyle Thursday 29th February: Chapel Road Primary School, 3:00pm St Columb’s Church Friday 1st March 2024: Good Shepherd Primary School, 1.00pm & 3.00pm at Columb’s Church Friday 8th March 2024: Sacred Heart Primary School, 1:00pm …
February Overview
The month of February is dedicated to the Holy Family The Holy Father’s Intentions For the New Martyrs: We pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world inflame the Church with their courage and missionary enthusiasm. Feasts for February 2024 02. Presentation of the Lord, Feast 03. …
Year for Vocations to the Diocesan Priesthood
The Year for Vocations to the Diocesan Priesthood began on Vocations/Good Shepherd Sunday, 30 April 2023 Take the Risk for Christ Have you ever thought that the Lord might be calling you to be a priest? Five priests from around Ireland share how they followed their vocation to the Diocesan priesthood, explaining what a priest …
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World Youth Day Lisbon
WYD is open to all young people who want to take part in a festive encounter centered on Jesus Christ together with their peers. This event is an opportunity to personally experience the universality of the Catholic Church, and to share with the whole world the hope of many young people who are committing their …
July 2023 Overview
The month of July is dedicated to The Precious Blood of Jesus The Holy Father’s Intentions for the Month of July 2023: For a Eucharistic Life: We pray that Catholics may place the celebration of the Eucharist at the heart of their lives, transforming human relationships in a very deep way and opening to the …
Synodal Process Continental Stage
From 5th to 12th February 2023, Archbishop Eamon Martin, along with thirteen other delegates from across Ireland, attended the first ever European Assembly of a Synod within the Catholic Church, in Prague, Czechia. To checkout the Diocese of Derry Reflection on the Document for the Continental Stage, the synod timeline plus additional resources click on …
Lent 2023
Trocaire Lent Appeal Wednesday of this week (February 22nd) marks the beginning of Lent. Lent is the 40-day period modelled after Our Lord’s 40 days in the desert. After the example of Jesus, we are encouraged to commit ourselves to a time of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Lent is a time of preparation in two …
Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal
The devastating earthquakes that struck Syria and Turkey this week in the pre-dawn hours have caused terrible destruction and loss of life. Buildings collapsed around little children, women, and men as they lay sleeping in their beds. Since Monday – when the quakes hit – it has been a nonstop, round-the-clock search to free anyone …
Stephen’s Ordination to Diaconate
Stephen Ward who was ordained a Deacon on the feast of the Epiphany We congratulate Stephen whose ordination to the Diaconate took place in St Columb’s Church at 12:00noon on Friday January 6th. Stephen is a native of Killyclogher parish in Omagh and has been active in our parish as a student since Easter. Stephen …