The Virtual Voices of St Nicholas Schola Cantorum, in Galway, have celebrated the feast of Pentecost with Grayston Ives’ lambent setting of a text from George Herbert’s poem Whitsunday – Listen Sweet Dove.
He’s done it! Congratulations to the Rev Andy Heber, vicar of Carnmoney, who today completed Tearfund’s Mount Kilimanjaro Challenge, with a final run of 48 flights which took him over 6,000 metres – and to the peak of the world’s fourth highest mountain.
Dublin & Glendalough Kids is a new Facebook page which brings together children’s ministry resources for use at home at this time.
Ripple Connor will be hosting a five–day holiday bible club called ‘Cabin Fever’ this summer.
The Archdeacon of Raphoe, the Ven David Huss, is taking to the roads of south Donegal, today, on a bicycle, on the first of a series of socially–distanced parish visits around the Parishes of Donegal, Killymard, Lough Eske and Laghey.
Along with others across the country, the Cornerstone Foodbank based at Christ Church Kilkeel is offering a vital service to the vulnerable in the community.
The Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, joined scores of parishioners from the Parish of St Augustine’s and further afield for a ‘Drive–in Service’ in the centre of Londonderry on Sunday morning to mark Pentecost Day.
There’s nothing like a good old sing–a–long in times of adversity, and on Sundays, Ballymoney parishioner Alicia Duncan is helping her neighbours raise their voices – and their spirits.
On Pentecost Sunday, the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed the prayer ‘For Ireland’ from the Book of Common Prayer (p.145), concluding Down and Dromore’s prayer vigil for the island.
The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, delivers this short address for the Feast of Pentecost, which will be celebrated this Sunday.
