Friday, February 15, 2013

Year of Faith in Elphin

A special initiative to mark the Year of Faith got underway in Roscommon and Sligo last week.

Over recent weeks Bishop Christopher Jones has circulated a brochure entitled ‘Believing in Order to Understand; Understanding, the better to Believe’ to all 38 parishes in the Elphin diocese. 

Through the brochure the bishop queries what it means to be a person of faith and whether exercising one’s faith and being reasonable inevitably lead to conflict. 

The brochure goes on to present details of four workshops/seminars related to the topic of faith that are being made available over eight Saturdays in Roscommon and Sligo.

The first of these focuses on Faith and Reason and was presented by Sligo’s Fr Michael Drumm, Chairperson of the Catholic Schools Partnership. 

The other speakers in the series are Fr Noel Rooney PP, St Joseph’s Sligo (speaking in April); Sr Moya Hegarty OSU (September) and Fr Michael Duignan, St Angela’s College, Sligo (October).

For more information see: www.elphindiocese.ie