Upcoming Events

NEW PARISH CENTRE
ST PETER'S PARISH, DROGHEDA


The new parish centre is called 'The Barbican.'

Opening night for the Barbican, St Peter’s Parish Centre, is on Friday next 12th March at 8pm. 

Tickets available from the centre or from Kieran’s hairdressers, Peter Hughes and Rosaleen Reilly.  It is a charity night in aid of Cystic Fibrosis.  €20.

Barbican Centre Website

 

YOUTH 2000 LEINSTER RETREAT MARCH 2010

To celebrate the Year of Evangelisation in the Archdiocese of Dublin, Youth 2000 Ireland will hold a weekend retreat for young adults aged 16-35 from 26th – 28th March in Castleknock College, Dublin 15.  This donation-only residential retreat will be comprised of inspirational talks, prayer, sharing, games and craic and promises to be a great opportunity for young people from around Ireland to explore their Catholic faith and make many new friends.
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KNOCK SUMMER FESTIVAL 2010- "WALK BY FAITH"

The Knock Summer Festival is for all people between the ages of 18-35 and takes place 25th-27th of June. Over the three days there will be talks, workshops, drum, dance, prayer, music and reflection. It is a great opportunity to step out of the busyness of life to question, explore, ignite and celebrate your faith .The festival costs €70 but this includes food, accommodation and access to all that is happening.
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CARDINAL SEÁN BRADY WELCOMES THE APPOINTMENT
OF REV NORMAN HAMILTON
AS THE NEXT
MODERATOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Cardinal Brady welcomes the appointment of Rev Norman Hamilton as the next Moderator of the Presbyterian Church

Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, today welcomed the appointment of Reverend Norman Hamilton as the next Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.  Cardinal Brady said:
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PASTORAL AREA RESOURCE TEAM FORMATION EVENINGS

Three evenings of formation for the new pastoral area resource team are being held over the next few months beginning on Tuesday 9 March.  The function of the resource teams will be to ensure the effective sharing of the collective gifts and talents of the parishes in the pastoral area
 and identify pastoral matters that can be done better together as a pastoral area than separately as individual parishes.  Each pastoral area resource team is made up of five people from each parish. The dates and venues are as follows:

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ARCHDIOCESE OF ARMAGH - 2010 CONFIRMATION LIST

 

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Seasonal Reflections

LENT AND EASTER

In 1990, after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela was released to much public hype and to mixed responses among South Africans.  The blacks saw it as the beginning of a new era of change that would bring freedom and prosperity to them amongst other things.  The whites saw it as the beginning of the end; the end of power, the end of control and the beginning of the destruction of South Africa.
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Welcome to the website of the Archdiocese of Armagh.
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ARCHDIOCESE OF ARMAGH
As a diocese,
we aim to become the Body of Christ
with the help of the Holy Spirit
so that we can live like Jesus in our time and place
sharing his compassionate love with all.

 

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