September 2011 – Antrim Parish

Welcoming the new edition of the Roman Missal

10/01/201212/09/2011 by ddelargy

The new edition of the roman Missal will be published shortly. It will be introduced in two stages:

St. Fabian: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 20, 2021 20/01/2021

Eusebius, born just a few years after Fabian's death, tells us how Fabian came to Rome after Pope Anteros died in 236. A layperson, and not a very important one, he may have come for the same reason many still come to Rome today during a papal election: concern for the future of the faith, […]

St. Fillan: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 19, 2021 19/01/2021

Fillan, son of Feriach and St. Kentigerna, was also known as Foelan. He became a monk in his youth and accompanied his mother from Ireland to Scotland where he lived as a hermit near St. Andrew's monastery for many years, and then was elected abbot. He later resigned and resumed his eremitical life at Glendochart, […]

St. Volusian: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 18, 2021 18/01/2021

Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain, possibly as a martyr.