Church Music Dublin has recently added a new choir training video to its website (www.churchmusicdublin.org). The video, entitled ‘Why sing?’ is presented by acclaimed choral director, Mark Duley, and is the first video in a series of five on the subject of singing in church and choir training.
Canon Arthur Minion, Rector of Wexford and Kilscoran Union of Parishes, along with Wexford town priest, Father Aodhan Marken, fasted for four days before Christmas for charity and raised an impressive €46,300.
The Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Rt Rev Ken Good, has paid tribute to the Very Revd Victor Griffin, former Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, who died at his home in Limavady in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The annual Plough Service was held in St Patrick’s Church, Kenmare, on the first Sunday after Epiphany. A plough was brought into church and decorated; the whole congregation stood together, asking for God’s Blessing on all those who work in agriculture in the year to come.
On Christmas Eve, nearly three hundred knitted angels flew from St Patrick, Holy Cross and the Gateway Methodist Christians Together group in Kenmare, arriving on doorsteps to the surprise and delight of local people in the town, bearing the message of Joy to the World.
Three new Canons were installed in St Anne’s Cathedral at Choral Evensong on Sunday January 8.
With donations still coming in, the 2016 Belfast Cathedral Black Santa Sit–out has raised in the region of £215,000, exceeding Dean John Mann’s target of £200,000.
‘Discovering the truth we need for a life built on solid foundations and finding the peace we yearn for can only come as we entrust ourselves completely to Christ.’
The Archdeacon of Raphoe, Ven. David Huss, has said Donegal Parish Church – which was damaged in a lightning strike on Christmas Day – could remain closed for a number of weeks while repair work is carried out.
