Parishioners and clergy from across the Cashel, Ferns and Ossory Diocese came in large numbers to Kilkenny College on Saturday, 18th February, to learn ways of improving their church properties, inside and out.
Just a couple of years ago, 13–year–old Derrick was collecting discarded plastic bottles to earn 12p a day on the streets of Kampala. Last week, he was having school lessons and making crafts in Lisburn Cathedral Halls, along with other young members of the Abaana New Life Choir.
Magheracross Parish Church hosted the annual Celebration of Sport and Faith with Ballinamallard United Football Club on Sunday evening, for the third year.
At Choral Evensong on Sunday evening, 19 February, in St Mary’s Cathedral, Bishop Kenneth Kearon presided at the inauguration of the new Diocesan Guild of Readers.
The Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, has expressed his sympathy to members of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin on the death of the long serving former Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Desmond Connell.
The Right Rev Dr Samuel Poyntz, a former Bishop of Connor, died peacefully on Saturday February 18.
With just over one year passed since the re–launch of the Diocesan Readers’ course in the Diocese of Down and Dromore, there are now 24 people from 21 different parishes half–way through their studies and about to undertake practical preaching placements.
Donegal Parish Church is to reopen on Sunday week after being closed for two months because of a Christmas Day lightning strike. Significant damage was caused inside and outside the church when the building was hit by lightning during a violent storm.
St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, and its Director of Music, Peter Stobart, teamed up with the the Cork International Choral Festival on Saturday, 11th February for a very special day–long Come and Sing event.
