Parishioners and friends of St Bartholomew’s Church on Clyde Road gathered to rejoice last Wednesday (December 4) at the publication of a new book about the unique Dublin church. ‘Saint Bartholomew’s Church Dublin 1867 to 2019’ by Kenneth Milne and Alistair Rowan was launched in the Irish Architectural Archive on Merrion Square by Archbishop Michael Jackson.
In common with parishes throughout the Church of Ireland, parishes in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, engaged with the Five Marks of Mission, regularly seek to find ways to put their faith into action in ways big and small which support the local community.
Friends, supporters, volunteers and staff gathered in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, on Wednesday 27th November for the 3rd Annual Christmas Concert for St Luke’s Home and what a great concert it turned out to be.
Last month at the Patronal Festival in the Church of St Mary and All Saints’, Glanmire County Cork, the Sunday Club was relaunched.
Upper Falls Parish Church, Suffolk, Belfast, Diocese of Connor, has been awarded first place in the Alzheimer’s Society Awards in the small/medium dementia–friendly organisation of the year category.
One of the many striking exhibits in ‘Angels Among Us’ in Magheralin Parish Church is Peter’s Angel which was created by prisoners from HMP Maghaberry working with the Extern Works Light Engineering Programme.
New primary school boards of management took office on Sunday, 1st December 2019, for a four–year period and, on Tuesday, 3rd December, at an early opportunity, the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Dr Paul Colton, invited all the members of the boards for Church of Ireland primary schools in Cork, Cloyne and Ross to dinner at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Little Island.
Drumkeeran Parish Hall in Clogher Diocese was recently bursting with the joys of Christmas as thousands of shoeboxes collected for this year’s Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child were prepared for loading onto a lorry to bring to needy children in foreign countries.
On Monday, 25th November, Graham Norton, the internationally famous television and radio presenter, comedian, actor, author, and commentator, returned to his old school, Bandon Grammar School, County Cork.
Twenty–one young people from across the diocese have just celebrated their graduation from the SERVE Young Leaders’ Training Course.
