In preparation for the World Meeting of Families which will take place in Dublin from 21 - 26 August 2018, the diocese of Derry will celebrate a Year of the Family which will be launched at all the Masses for the Feast of the Assumption (14/15 August 2017).
The Year of the Family will conclude on 8 September 2018, the Feast of Our Lady's Birthday.
The Year of the Family aims:
- to encourage families to pray together at home,
- to remind us that the Church is "the family of families" (Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia/The Joy of Love, paragraph 87),
- to help us to grow as diocesan and parish families - communities of faith, hope and love.