World Day for Consecrated Life 2 February 2012

In 1997, Pope John Paul II instituted a day of prayer for women and men in consecrated life.

Publish date: 1st Feb, 2012

World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2012

The 49th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which will be celebrated on 29 April 2012, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, prompts us to meditate on the theme: Vocations, the Gift of the Love of God.

Publish date: 31st Jan, 2012

Sisters of Bon Secours Celebrate 150 Years in Ireland

Bon Secours Sisters commemorate 150 years in Ireland with specially commissioned exhibition in Cork Public Museum-

Publish date: 27th Jan, 2012

First Profession Celebrations

Postulants and Simply Professed Franciscan Friars gathered at the recent 1st Profession of Friar Feidhlim O Seasnain O.F.M, from Co Cavan, at the Franciscan Friary in Ennis, Co Clare.

Publish date: 15th Dec, 2011

Redemptorist joy as new priest ordained

Thirty-two-year-old Fr Derek Ryan, CSsR, was ordained at St Joseph’s Redemptorist Church in Dundalk Co Louth last Sunday by Archbishop Joseph Tobin, Secretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Publish date: 9th Dec, 2011

'Women’s ministerial religious life has a future in this time and beyond'

Reports of the demise of religious life, to paraphrase Mark Twain, are greatly exaggerated, theologian Sr. Sandra M. Schneiders said in a Sept. 24 speech, drawing applause from the audience at St. Mary’s College in Indiana for the line, “I come to praise this life, not bury it.”

Publish date: 29th Nov, 2011

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