Newtownstewart, Parish of Ardstraw East & Newtownstewart, Derry Diocese, Ireland

Two Hearts Image - August 2018

Ciborium Veils - August 2018

Altar Cloth - August 2018

Fr Roland Colhoun and Caomhan Kilpatrick Blessing the new Statue of the Sacred Heart in the Oratory of Mary Mother of God, Newtownstewart on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Friday 19th June 2020

Fr Roland Colhoun and Darcey Canning Blessing the new Crown and Arch on the Statue of Our Lady in the Oratory of Mary Mother of God, Newtownstewart on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart, Saturday 20th June 2020

Fr Roland Colhoun and Oscar Canning Blessing the new Statue of St Joseph and the Christ Child in the Oratory of Mary Mother of God, Newtownstewart on the Feast of St John the Baptist, Wednesday 24th June 2020

Banners displayed on the Altar for Easter 2021

Thanks to a generous volunteer, the brass doors of the tabernacle in St Eugene's Church, Glenock, have been painstakingly polished. "O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine. All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine". Eastertide 2021.

Glenock Christmas

New Lunette Pyx for Newtownstewart - Fr Roland Colhoun with altar server Matthew O'Doherty in St Eugene’s Church, Glenock, Newtownstewart. The new solid silver lunette pyx for reserving the Eucharist was blessed on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi 2018.

Forty Hours Glenock 2016

The new Divine Mercy picture in the Oratory of Mary Mother of God, Newtownstewart, unveiled to close the Year of Mercy on 20th November 2016. Included are altar servers Daithi and Moya McConnell and Fr Roland Colhoun.

Fr Roland Colhoun, Newtownstewart, with two newly trained altar servers, Ciabhán Kilpatrick and Oscar Canning from St Patrick’s Primary School. Photo by Nicky Canning.

Fr Roland Colhoun, Newtownstewart, and altar server, Joseph Quinn, receiving a significant altar Missal for use in St Eugene’s Church, Glenock. The Missal has been donated to the parish on behalf of the late Bishop Edward Daly, who had this liturgical book for Masses in the Foyle Hospice, Derry, 2011-2016. He used it to celebrate his final Mass at home in July 2016.

Fr Roland Colhoun, Newtownstewart, with Kate Hunter (who donated the material for new ciborium veils) and Susan Glackin (who made the veils). Photo: Kim Buck

Enthronement of the Image of the Two Hearts

Fr Roland Colhoun, Newtownstewart, with members of the Alliance of the Two Hearts Prayer Group (Anne Lench, Mary Rose Rice and Donney Gormley) at the Enthronement of the Image of the Two Hearts in the Oratory of Mary Mother of God (15th August 2018) (Photo by Kevin Kerrigan)

Fr Roland Colhoun, Newtownstewart, with visiting members of the Legion of Mary from Tyrone and Donegal. The Parish of Ardstraw East is establishing a new praesidium of the Legion.

Fr Roland Colhoun, Newtownstewart, with Susan Glackin who made and donated new linen cloths with Fatima lace for the altar at St Eugene's Church, Glenock. (Feast of the Assumption 2018)

Fr Roland Colhoun, Newtownstewart, presenting the Amoris Cube with Paddy Flanagan and Cora Flanagan, in preparation for the World Meeting of Families 2018. Each of the six sides of the Cube has a practical message from Pope Francis to build up kindness in family life.

NEW BENEDICTION BOOK - Newtownstewart - May 2018 : Fr Roland Colhoun, Newtownstewart, pictured with Mary McCullagh of Plumbridge who donated a new Benediction Book to Ardstraw East, her parish of origin. The book is dedicated to the memory of Mary's deceased siblings, the Gallagher family of Legfordrum.