School Competitions Launched  - Awareness of Eucharistic Congress 2012 Encouraged

Bishop Jones, with the support of the Elphin diocese’s Eucharistic Adoration and International Eucharistic Congress Committee, has launched three competitions for primary and post-primary pupils.  The diocese hopes the competitions will support young people come to a greater awareness of next year’s International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin.

Mission Sunday is on 23^rd October this year. Each year it takes place on the second last Sunday of October, the traditional month of universal mission since 1926. The collection is organised annually by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and is celebrated in every Church throughout the world, including the poorest. The theme for World Mission Sunday in Ireland this year is Together in Faith.

On Sunday 9th of October in the Chapel of St Angela’s College in Sligo the candidates for the Permanent Diaconate for the Diocese of Elphin edged ever closer towards ordination. Gathered with their wives, family, friends and priests from their home and placement parishes they were officially instituted as ‘Readers’ in a beautiful and simple ceremony.