The diocese recently held its first Essentials Dinner to say a huge ‘Thank you’ to all of the wonderful and very talented people who work tirelessly in our churches with children and young people.
The Church of Ireland clergy of parishes in Dublin’s city centre have met the Archbishop of Dublin to discuss difficulties they foresee on Easter Day 2016 along with opportunities to provide worship for their parishioners on that day.
The inaugural Clive West Memorial Lecture takes place in All Saints’ Church, Belfast, on Monday February 22 at 7.45pm.
Is the Good News of the Kingdom being proclaimed in our time? This was the question posed at an uplifting Come&C Service in St Maelruain’s Church in Tallaght on Saturday February 6.
Dublin City University’s Inter Faith Centre hosted its first ever ecumenical Ash Wednesday Service yesterday (February 10). The service was led by Archbishop Michael Jackson with assistance from DCU Chaplain Fr Séamus McEntee, the Principal of the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dr Anne Lodge, and DCU Chaplain Philip McKinley.
The Bishop of Connor’s annual Lent Seminar series got underway in Jordanstown Parish Centre on Tuesday February 9, with more than 110 people coming along to hear the Bishop speak on the theme of Grace.
Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, visited the Shankill area of Belfast on February 4, and one of the venues she called into was St Andrew’s, Glencairn.
Last weekend, 5th–7th February, the annual weekend away for youth leaders in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross took place in the Blarney Golf Resort.
More than 220 charities received a share of the money raised during the 2015 Black Santa Sit–out at the annual Good Samaritans Service in St Anne’s Cathedral on February 7.
A former rector and a veteran civil rights activist were among members of the public who joined clergy and worshippers from the Christ Church, Culmore, Muff and St Peter’s Group of Parishes on Saturday afternoon for the Celebration and Dedication of their recently refurbished parish centre on Londonderry’s Culmore Road.