www.vocations.ie SHARING THE GOOD NEWS Monthly newsletter for Dioceses and Parishes Issue 7 - May 2014 Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference Columba Centre, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Co Kildare www.vocations.ie Conference: Marriage and Family at the Heart of the Parish NEWS S NIPPETS The Council for Marriage and the Family of the Irish Bishops’ Conference will host a one-day conference on Saturday 14 June on the theme ‘Marriage and Bishop John Fleming, Bishop Family at the Heart of the Parish’. The conference is offered to leaders in of Killala, will be a panellist on a special Beyond Belief parishes and dioceses, and others exercising faith and pastoral leadership, programme - The New Saints’ including parents, grandparents, teachers, members of parish pastoral councils on the canonisations, which as well as other groups and organisations serving the Church’s mission. The will be broadcast on RTÉ One conference seeks to (i) explore the pastoral challenges to the family in the television at 10:30pm on 27 context of evangelisation, (ii) explore how the parish community supports April next. families in their Christian calling to share their faith and (iii) inform the work of An Open Day will take place the Council for Marriage and the Family. at the National Seminary, Saint Patrick's College, Keynote speaker will be Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin. Maynooth on Saturday 3 Also speaking will be Bishop Liam MacDaid, Bishop of Clogher and Chair of the May for men discerning a Council for Marriage and the Family, Dr Tony Fahey, Professor of Social Policy, vocation to diocesan School of Applied Social Science, UCD and Colette Furlong, Catechist with Sligo priesthood. See details on www.maynoothcollege.ie/ Parishes. Booking for the conference can be made by email to the following seminary. address: [email protected] or by calling 087 622 0349. World Communications Day will be celebrated on Sunday The Church celebrates two new Vocations Sunday 2014 1 June 2014 on the theme saints The World Day of Prayer for Vocations ‘Communication at the Service of an Authentic will be celebrated on Sunday 11 May Culture of Encounter’. 2014 on the theme ’Vocations: Witness to the Truth’. The The Irish Church Music Association Summer School Council for Vocations takes place in Maynooth from of the Irish Bishops’ 3 - 6 July 2014 on the theme Conference has made A special web feature is available on ‘The Joy of the Gospel’. See website for more information: available new video and text resources www.cathlicbishops.ie to mark the for Vocations Sunday which include a churchmusicassociation.com canonisation of Pope John XXIII and new ‘Day in the Life’ series following Pope John Paul II. This web feature Please see www.accord.ie for five people in their different vocations new articles on marriage and details: (i) The process of becoming a to priesthood and religious life. Mass relationship matters such as: Saint (ii) The miracles attributed to (i) Why Commitment Matters will be broadcast from RTÉ’s Blessed John XXIII and Blessed and (ii) Work and Marriage: Donnybrook studios for Vocations John Paul II (iii) Their lives and Maintaining the Balance, and Sunday. The celebrant will be the new ministry (iv) Events in Ireland to (iii) Preparation for Bishop of Derry, Bishop Donal sacramental marriage. coincide with the canonisations and McKeown. See www.vocations.ie for (v) Special commemorative booklets Produced by the Catholic more information on these resources from Veritas. Communications Office. and the Vocations Sunday Mass. For further information and contact details see Produced by the Catholic Communications Office of the Pope Francis’ Tweet of the Month: Only trust in God www.catholicbishops.ie Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into Also on Facebook, Twitter, radiant dawn. Follow Pope Francis @Pontifex YouTube and Audioboo.