Homily for the Diocesan Pastoral Assembly

11th & 12th November, 2006 I extend a very warm welcome to each one of you to our Eucharist as we celebrate our pastoral assembly. ...

Homily for the Diocesan Pastoral Assembly

11th & 12th November, 2006 I extend a very warm welcome to each one of you to our Eucharist as we celebrate our pastoral assembly. ...

Archbishop’s address at Tionol 2006 – Diocesan Assembly (youth)

A dhaoine óga geanúla, In Éirinn an lae inniu ní bhíonn fonn mór ar dhaoine a rá go poiblí gur Caitlilicí iad nó fiú...

The Reek Homily 2006

HOMILY FOR CROAGH PATRICK PILGRIMAGE 2006 BY ARCHBISHOP MICHAEL NEARY I welcome all the pilgrims to Croagh Patrick on the occasion of the...

Homily for the Ordination of Patrick Burke, Killererin Church

Homily for the Ordination of Patrick Burke, Killererin Church Sunday, June 11th, 2006 The Ordination of a Priest only makes sense in the broader context...

Homily for Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2006

When we come on pilgrimage we Lourdes to tend to leave the staple diet on which we feed behind us – the T.V., radio,...

Homily for Confirmations 2006

An Irish Missionary nun, working in a desert region of Kenya, wrote home recently describing a confirmation day in her village on the edge...

Homily Preached by Most Rev. Michael Neary on the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day...

Cathedral of the Assumption, Tuam At certain times throughout the year we become very conscious of our identity as Irish people.  It may be...

Homily preached by Most Rev. Michael Neary at Easter 2006

Good Friday was a day of rupture and termination.  A sense of darkness and disintegration, the loss of meaning, hope, and creativity which is...

Homily for Chrism Mass 2006

Oh gates lift high your heads, grow higher ancient doors; Let Him enter, the King of Glory. In spite of difficulties, perhaps partly because of...