Easter Day was marked with a Festal Eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Sunday (April 1). The Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson presided and preached.
The little village of Ballinacurra, on the outskirts of Midleton, County Cork, was Bishop Paul Colton’s first port of call on Good Friday, 30th March.
Northridge House Education and Research Centre hosted a graduation ceremony when Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Certificates were presented on Wednesday 21st March at the conclusion of its annual CPE programme.
The Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin, looks at the characters and emotions of Holy Week.
The Right Reverend David Chillingworth, who was Bishop of Saint Andrew’s, Dunkeld and Dunblane in the Scottish Episcopal Church, and who was Primus (Presiding Bishop) of that Church from 2009 until 2016 is spending Holy Week 2018 in Cork, Cloyne and Ross visiting his Cork roots.
The new Rector of the Clogher Cathedral Group of Parishes is to be the Revd Olivia Downey.
Holy Week, or ‘The Great Week’ as early Christians called, started yesterday, Sunday, 25th March, with Palm Sunday.
On the night of 16th March – the Eve of St Patrick’s Day – a bilingual celebration of Holy Communion took place in St Mary’s Carrigaline attended by Clergy and laity from the Diocese of Cork.
It was a full house at 9am, as over 90 men gathered at Bull McCabe’s Bar and Restaurant on Airport Hill two Saturdays ago, on Saturday 10 March, for the annual Lent Men’s Breakfast in the Cork parishes of Douglas Union with Frankfield.