The Carrigaline Union of Parishes in the Diocese of Cork, has been a Fair Trade parish since 2012. The parish recently celebrated the beginning of this year’s Fair Trade Fortnight with themed services in both St John’s and St Mary’s churches.
On Friday 28th February, in the Church of St Mary & All Saints’, Glanmire, the final concert of the parish’s Winter Concert Series was held.
During the school half–term in February, 12 teenagers from Fanlobbus Parish Youth Group (Dunmanway, Drimoleague, Coolkelure and Drinach, County Cork) went on a ‘behind the scenes event’ in their surrounding community.
The Rev Rosie Diffin has been instituted as Rector of Kilcronaghan, Ballynascreen and Six Towns, in succession to the Rev Carmen Hayes.
The weather outside was decidedly on the chilly side, but the mood inside St Eunan’s Cathedral in Raphoe was warm and inviting – which was appropriate – as scores of people arrived for the first of this year’s ‘Derry and Raphoe Youth Invites’ services, led by the Dean of Raphoe, the Very Rev Arthur Barrett.
‘The Wee Church on the Walls’ was getting a rector with “a big, big heart”, Bishop Andrew Forster told the parishioners of St Augustine’s Church, on Friday evening, as he instituted the Rev Nigel Cairns as the parish’s new Rector.
“John Sullivan was entirely Anglican and totally Roman Catholic and thoroughly Jesuit,” Archbishop Michael Jackson said at the annual service of commemoration and thanksgiving for the Dublin priest who was beatified three years ago.
Are you enjoying some pancakes today? We’re on the cusp of Lent which begins tomorrow with Ash Wednesday, 26 February, and ends at midnight on Easter Saturday, 11 April.
On 21 February, about 70 adults, children and young people from Holywood Parish travelled to the Dromantine Retreat and Conference Centre for a weekend together in the company of guest speakers Bishop Ken (Fanta) Clarke and his wife Helen.
