Cathedral News

The Jewish people had been given the Ten Commandments and all the other precepts which made up the Law. That was what bound them together as the chosen people and gave them a road-map for living.

Zebulun and Nephtali were sons of Jacob and were allotted land in what became the kingdom of Israel.

The relics of Saint Charbel will visit Galway Cathedral on Sunday 29 January between 3.00pm and 5.30pm.

The 2023 Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help takes place from Monday 6 March until Tuesday 14 March.

St John Bosco, known as "father and teacher of youth", is remembered on 31 January.

John the Baptist acted a signpost pointing to Jesus.

During the Christmas period we have read how the infant Jesus was made known firstly to the Jewish shepherds and secondly to the gentile Magi.

Devotion to Mary probably began in the third century AD. The four gospels, written in the late first century, treat of her in very different ways.

Today we light the white candle, which is the Christ candle, for it is Christmas day.

We are now very near to Christmas and the fourth candle is lit, which is the angel candle.