Christmas 2020

Jan
07

Homily - Feast of the Epiphany - Bishop McKeown

6 January 2021  We have reached the end of the Christmas season. In Western Christianity, the visit of the Magi from the East marks the revelatio...
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Jan
03

Homily - Second Sunday in Christmas - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 3 January 2021  We are now on the tenth day of Christmas and our scripture readings keep echoing that message that the Word of God has be...
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Dec
30

Homily - Feast of the Holy Family - Bishop McKeown

Sunday, 27 December 2020  I heard a presenter on radio over the weekend, insisting that they would not be playing any more Christmas music, for t...
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Dec
26

Homily - Christmas Day - Bishop McKeown

Friday, 25 December 2020  We have at last arrived at Christmas Day. It will be a strange time without many of the feel-good elements which bright...
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Dec
21

The Net's young writers in conversation with Bishop Donal McKeown

Young writers, from the four deaneries of the Derry Diocese, share with Bishop Donal McKeown what Christmas means to them and their image of God. ...
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Dec
14

Family Prayer Service for use at Home this Christmas

At Christmas we celebrate the gift of Jesus, our hope and peace, Jesus, the light of the world. Family Prayer Service for your home during the 12 days...
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Dec
04

Termonbacca Divine Child Novena

The discalced Carmelite Order in Termonbacca Monastery, Derry, are this year, instituting a Novena to the Divine Child.  The novena will run from...
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