Archbishop Eamon Martin welcomes appointment of Bishop Dermot Farrell as Archbishop of Dublin
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Archbishop Eamon Martin warmly welcomed today s appointment of Bishop Dermot Farrell of Ossory as new Archbishop of Dublin.
Speaking as President of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Martin described Bishop Farrell as a hardworking and personable colleague with many skills and qualities to bring to his new ministry as Archbishop of Dublin. He brings a grounded spirituality, solid teaching and communication skills to his ministry, Archbishop Martin said.
In previous roles, Bishop Farrell has served as president of Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, parish priest of Dunboyne & Kilbride, Vicar-General of the Diocese of Meath and National Director of the Permanent Diaconate.
CDW Note on the Sunday of the Word of God
This comes more than a year after Pope Francis published
Aperuit Illis, a motu proprio instituting the Sunday of the Word of God. There was some commentary here on PrayTell on this new observance at that time and at the time of its first observance, at the start of 2020, I published a piece on “almost obligatory” Irish contribution to the observance.
This new Note is to be welcomed, although one might wonder why it took fourteen months to be published after
Aperuit Illis. Rather than providing liturgical texts or changes to the rubrics, helps parishes to mark the observance without changing the existing liturgical texts. At the end of the document, it explains that “the purpose of this Note is to help reawaken, in the light of the Sunday of the Word of God, an awareness of the importance of Sacred Scripture for our lives as believers”.