Familiar Faces Rain, cold, mist and picturesque grass of the most intense green: after two months of sunny summer holidays on the continent Ireland presented itself in its most famous features to the returning DYC members from Italy and Germany, ready for another year of spreading the Good News of the Gospel among the people […]
The Head of the Body – Sacramental Talk in Maghera
“Patronizing, oppressing, bureaucratic, stiff, old-fashioned, hierarchical, sadistic, false…” The list of cliches and prejudices about the Catholic Church dominating the contemporary public discourse seems endless. In comparison to the so called modern, hyper-individualistic culture and its crooked idea of freedom the Church could indeed be the incarnation of the Devil, had it not, in its […]
Light of the world – Handing on the faith to the next generation
The Derry Youth Community is involved in a variety of programmes: retreat work, religious education in schools, sacramental preparation, parish ministry. In all of these different fields we work to spread the Gospel among the youth of the diocese, to “make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19), no matter weather they are 4 or 14 […]