Diocesan News
New Rector For Drumragh (Omagh) And Mountfield Parish Churches
Parishioners of Drumragh (Omagh) and Mountfield Churches in the diocese of Derry welcomed a new Rector on Monday 23rd February.
Parishioners of Drumragh (Omagh) and Mountfield Churches in the diocese of Derry welcomed a new Rector on Monday 23rd February.
The Revd Sarah Marry to serve as Priest–in–Charge of the Parish of St Anne, Shandon and also as Chaplain to St Luke’s Home, Mahon, Cork.
On Saturday 21st February, rugby pundit and broadcaster George Hook was the guest speaker at the Lent Men’s Breakfast held in Douglas.
Today marks the beginning of Lent for Christians around the world. Often Lent involves taking up some sort of activity designed to mirror the discipline of Jesus in the desert.
A moving and reflective service of prayer for young people in Ireland took place in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, yesterday evening (Tuesday 17 February).
If the people of Belfast City and beyond hadn’t realised that St Anne’s Cathedral has a host of vibrant young choristers in its choirs, then they will know about it now.
A team from Christ Church, Lisburn, was commissioned on Sunday15 February in preparation for a mission trip to Uganda departing on 18 February.
Mrs Marie Norton, a parishioner of Bandon Union of Parishes, in the Diocese of Cork, trained, and was licensed, as a Reader in the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf while she and her husband Fred were living in Qatar. Having returned to live in West Cork Marie has now been licensed to serve as a Reader in the Church of Ireland within the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
Something as simple as a pair of sandals can help protect families from poverty and despair. That is why the Church of Ireland dioceses of Meath and Kildare has launched its Good For The Sole Project to buy 10,000 pairs of sandals in Karigiri in Tamil Nadu, India.