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RE Congress
The national congress for religious education will take place in the Mater Dei Institute on 17th October 2015. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Engaging the heart’ and will focus on helping our student to become more mindful of what it means to live with a...
Wedding Music Suggestions
Entrance: Organ Music , Choose from;Bridal March (Wagner)Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke),Hornpipe (Water Music by Handel),Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring (Bach)Canon in D (Pacelbel), or any other appropriate entrance musicOther instrumentals played by violin/flute etc...
Funeral Hymns – Cathedral Choir
Suggested Funeral hymnsPsalms ( between 1st and 2nd readings)The Lord is my ShepherdOn Eagles WingsSe An Tiarna m’aoireEven in the darkness, you are nearBlessed are they who dwell in your houseMy Soul is longing for your peaceCentre of my LifeLike the deer that...
Music at St Muredach’s Cathedral, Ballina
On the banks of the famous salmon-fishing river Moy, Ballina, stands the imposing cathedral of St Muredach, patron saint of Killala diocese. Regina Deacy, organist and director of music in St Muredach’s since 1998, gives an account of the life of music-making there...
TRACING THE STEM
Chapter 20 Thomas McDonnell, 1970-1987 Thomas McDonnell was born in the townland of Killeen near Downpatrick Head in Ballycastle parish on November 8, 1912. His parents were Patrick McDonnell and Catherine Munnelly and Thomas was the fifth in a family of eleven....
TROUBLE & STRIFE
Chapter 17 Joseph Foy – Miracle Worker Joseph Foy‘Miracle worker’ What I have written here may not please some people, but I feel bound to give it in the interests of truth. I do not doubt Fr Foy’s powers of intercession or that the merciful God...
TURBULENT DIOCESE
Chapter 18 Kilfian InvestigationTurbulent Conduct On proceeding to say Mass on 21st, Rev. Mr Duffy with Lynch and a few other co-operators dragged me off the altar . . . nothing but outrage and insult until the congregation was nearly assembled when they would...
MELANCHOLY TRUTH
Chapter Fourteen Incident at Belcarra, Mayo ‘The blister of suspension’ Two months after Peter Waldron’s consecration as bishop of Killala on 24.2.1815, the priests of the diocese gathered, as accustomed and as required, on Holy Thursday for the...