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.

St. Joseph of Cupertino: Saint of the Day for Friday, September 18, 2020 18/09/2020

St. Joseph was born in 1603 at Cupertino, in the diocese of Nardo in the Kingdom of Naples. After spending his childhood and adolescence in simplicity and innocence, he finally joined the Franciscan Friars Minor Conventual. After his ordination to the holy priesthood, he gave himself up entirely to a life of devotion to the […]

St. Robert Bellarmine: Saint of the Day for Thursday, September 17, 2020 17/09/2020

Born at Montepulciano, Italy, October 4, 1542, St. Robert Bellarmine was the third of ten children. His mother, Cinzia Cervini, a niece of Pope Marcellus II, was dedicated to almsgiving, prayer, meditation, fasting, and mortification of the body. Robert entered the newly formed Society of Jesus in 1560 and after his ordination went on to […]

St. Cornelius: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, September 16, 2020 16/09/2020

Cornelius whose feast day is September 16th. A Roman priest, Cornelius was elected Pope to succeed Fabian in an election delayed fourteen months by Decius' persecution of the Christians. The main issue of his pontificate was the treatment to be accorded Christians who had been apostasized during the persecution. He condemned those confessors who were […]