Welcome to Rev Conor McGrath

A native of St Mary’s on the Hill Parish, Glengormley, he hopes to serve in the Diocese of Down & Connor.

Conor will be assisting in our Parish over the next few months and we are delighted to welcome him this weekend.

Sts. Perpetua and Felicity: Saint of the Day for Sunday, March 07, 2021 07/03/2021

Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Emperor Severus. With details concerning the lives of many early martyrs unclear and often based on legend, we are fortunate to have the actual record of the courage of Perpetua and Felicity from the hand […]

St. Colette: Saint of the Day for Saturday, March 06, 2021 06/03/2021

Colette was the daughter of a carpenter named DeBoilet at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France. She was born on January 13, christened Nicolette, and called Colette. Orphaned at seventeen, she distributed her inheritance to the poor. She became a Franciscan tertiary, and lived at Corby as a solitary. She soon became well known for her […]

St. John Joseph of the Cross: Saint of the Day for Friday, March 05, 2021 05/03/2021

St. John Joseph of the Cross was born about the middle of the seventeenth century in the beautiful island of Ischia, near Naples. From his childhood he was the model of virtue, and in his sixteenth year he entered the Franciscan Order of the Strictest Observance, or Reform of St. Peter of Alcantara. Such was […]