Monsignor Richard Mohan fondly remembered by colleagues at Lough Derg



Tributes are being paid today to the former Prior at Lough Derg, Monsignor Richard Mohan

 

Monsignor Mohan died on New Year’s Day following a short illness. He served as Prior of Lough Derg between 1990 and 2013.  He first served as  a priest on the island in 1974.

 

The Prior, Father La his colleagues have outlined how they were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Monsignor Mohan and says that he will be fondly remembered by thousands of pilgrims that attended Lough Derg.

 

In a statement Fr La says the legacy of Monsignor Mohan will live on at Lough Derg through the great pastoral support that he was renowned for.

 

 

Mgr Mohan’s remains have been removed to the Sacred Heart Church, Clones, County Monaghan where a Vigil of Prayer will take place later today from 12 Noon until 9pm.

 

Monsignor Mohan’s Funeral Mass will take place in the Sacred Heart Church, Clones on Wednesday at 12 Noon with burial afterwards in St Joseph’s Cemetery, in his native, County Fermanagh.

 

Mary McDaid is head of the Pastrol Program at Lough Derg she says the news of the death of Monsignor Mohan  has come as a major shock:

 

 

 

Commenting on the death of Monsignor Mohan, the Bishop of Clogher, Bishop Larry Duffy has said:

“The death of Monsignor Mohan has come as a great shock to myself and to all who knew him – especially his family. the parishioners of Clones and the diocese of Clogher.

 

Throughout his priestly ministry, he gave great service to people of all ages and in various places. He was a very competent catechist who is remembered with great fondness by the many people with whom he came in contact through his 12 years working in our primary schools as Diocesan Religious Advisor. His time at Lough Derg was a period of development and change, and being a man of vision and openness to the Lord, he managed that well. Above all, Fr Dick was a priest whose priesthood was rooted in walking with Christ every day. He fulfilled that ministry of Christ’s love right up to the final hours of his life. May the Lord now grant him eternal peace in the fullness of God’s Kingdom.“

 

 

 



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