The evening of 10 April 2016 was a special date in Meath and Kildare diocese. It marked the celebration of its ‘Good for the Sole’ project at a special service in Trim Cathedral. This diocesan project aimed to raise €25,000. That target was exceeded as €31,000 was raised across the diocese.
After a gap of nearly a year and following much renovation and redecoration, St Andrew’s Parish Church, Glencairn, Diocese of Connor, reopened for worship on Sunday April 10.
Despite a very poor weather forecast, Sun Up – the Cork Diocesan Youth Council annual celebration of Easter at the Warren, Rosscarbery, County Cork – proved as popular as ever this year.
The Revd Mark Niblock, Priest–in–Charge of Rathcoole Parish, Diocese of Connor, has been appointed Dean’s Vicar at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast. He succeeds the Revd Canon Denise Acheson.
An interfaith service to remember all those who died during the 1916 Rising took place yesterday (Sunday April 3) in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Representatives of all the main faith communities participated, including Archbishop Michael Jackson.
The following sermon was preached by The Right Rev. Dr Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in the Cathedral Church of St Fin Barre, Cork.
Archbishop Michael Jackson’s Easter Day Sermon preached at Sandford Parish Church. ‘The future holds out to us the need for an ethic of altruism.’
Representatives of the four main Christian churches in Derry, including Bishops Ken Good and Donal McKeown, have led a cross–community ‘Walk of Witness’ through the centre of Derry–Londonderry to commemorate Christ’s death on the cross at Golgotha.
“The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.” With these last words, from the Book of Revelation, the Dean of Raphoe, Very Rev Arthur Barrett, brought St Eunan’s Cathedral, Raphoe’s four–day long Bible–reading Marathon to an end.
An oíche roimh Lá le Pádraig bhí Ceiliúradh den Chomaoineach Naofa I seirbhís dhátheangach in Eaglais Naomh Mhuire I gCarraig Uí Laighín.