Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Lent
Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent.
Bishops’ Appeal and the Church of Ireland Youth Department have teamed up to encourage all Church of Ireland youth groups / youth clubs / schools to take part in Pancakes and Prayer, a special initiative for Lent 2025, focussing on several schools in South Sudan within the Dioceses of Ibba & Maridi.
They are asking young people and leaders throughout the Church of Ireland to pray throughout Lent for the students, teachers, and the wider communities of schools in South Sudan who are part of the Fields of Life Thrive programme. But they also encourage each group to run a special fundraising initiative at some point during this period.
The Download pack will be available at www.ciyd.org and a link to donate – https://store.ireland.anglican.org/donations/donate?appeal=the-bishops-appeal&subappeal=Pancakes+%26+Prayer+Lent+2025
Then, each week, there will be new video clips on social media to encourage prayer, and further information about the project, running for the six weeks of Lent. Whenever the groups meets, midweek or on Sundays, they are encourage you tod take a few minutes to watch the latest video clip and to pray for the children and young people of South Sudan.
The Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland is holding two Lenten series this year, one online and one in–person.
“Invitation into Wholeness” will be held online at 7.30pm on 19 & 26 March, 2 & 19 April. These will be gentle, reflective and nourishing sessions exploring the concept of wholeness in new ways: Week 1: Brokenness and Newness; Week 2: Trees, Stone, Seas; Week 3: Sounding out the Heart and Trusting our Voice; Week 4: Joy Sorrow on the Same Page. The facilitators are Dr Jessica Brown and Ms Lydia Monds. Jessica is a second– year ordinand in the Church of Ireland, who also works in the creative writing field as a poet, novelist, singer–songwriter, teacher, mentor, and narrative practitioner. Sign up viawww.ministryofhealing.ie
“God Be With Us” takes place in–person in Egan House, in the grounds of St Michan’s Church, Dublin 7. Lydia and Susan Dawson, a chaplain and member of CMHI, will facilitate people to rest in the truth that God is with us, through meditating on scripture and reflecting on what it means in the context in which it was written, for our lives now and for the world. Sessions are from 1–2pm on Tuesdays, 11 March–1April. A simple, nourishing, lunch will be available from 12.3–1pm and 2.30pm.Because of space, numbers are limited so please book soon by emailing [email protected]
In Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, the Sunday Evensong at 3.30pm will include a sermon from the recently appointed Ecumenical Canon, Metropolitan Josef from the Romanian Orthodox Church.
On Monday evening at 7.30pm the Past Choristers Association of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, will have a table quiz in the cathedral’ To reserve a table go to [email protected]
Published in the Friday edition of The Irish Times