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Jul

05

Homily - 14th Sunday Ordinary Time - Bishop McKeown

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For 15 Sundays, we have been unable to celebrate Mass with at least some of God's people. It is wonderful that, even imperfectly, we can today celebra...

Jul

02

Online Lourdes Pilgrimage

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Bishop McKeown and the Pastoral Team welcome you and will accompany you in prayer and reflection on this online pilgrimage. Our Diocesan Pilgrim...

Jun

28

Homily - 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Bishop McKeown

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Today's Gospel passage brings us to the end of the second great discourse of Jesus in St Matthew's Gospel. The first was the Sermon on the Mount where...

Jun

21

Homily - 12th Sunday Ordinary Time - Bishop McKeown

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21 June 2020 St Eugene's Cathedral On these Sundays in Ordinary Time, we are invited to journey with Jesus in a more or less unbroken narr...

Jun

14

Homily - Corpus Christi - Bishop McKeown

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Corpus Christi, 14 June 2020 There is one word that keeps appearing in our readings today – bread. The people of Israel are nourished in the desert, t...

Jun

11

Homily - Funeral Mass for Bishop Francis Lagan

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Church of the Immaculate Conception, Strabane June 11th 2020 Shortly after the death of Bishop Seamus Hegarty last September, I visited Bishop ...

Jun

09

Announcement - Death of Bishop Francis Lagan

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The Diocese of Derry regrets to announce the death of Bishop Francis Lagan, who had served as Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Derry (1988-2010). He...

Jun

07

Homily - Trinity Sunday - Bishop McKeown

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Sunday, 7 June 2020 The liturgical year of the Church keeps throwing one feast after another at us. Since this lockdown began, we have gone on a...

Jun

01

Homily - Pentecost - Bishop Donal McKeown

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There is a famous line in one of Brian Friel's plays about young Gar O'Donnell leaving home and emigrating to Philadelphia. The quote goes something l...

Apr

27

A day of Prayer and Penance - Friday, 29 May 2020

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CLICK HERE to VIEW the live BROADCAST - STARTS 6:00AM Bishop McKeown is inviting people to join him on the last Friday of May, for a 24 hour 'virtual'...

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