On Tuesday, 8th June, the eve of the feast of Saint Columba, the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, licensed two new readers – Alan Clohessy and Dr Kieran Hogan – to the Office of Reader.
It must have felt like the second ‘Relief of Derry’ for a group of weary parishioners from the Parish of Drumglass in Dungannon as they crossed Londonderry’s iconic Peace Bridge near the end of their 50–mile fundraising walk from their home church to the Maiden City.
Many congratulations to Clem Shaw, a parishioner of St Thomas’ Parish Church, Belfast, Diocese of Connor, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday.
With one week left to run, the fundraising appeal for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza city has received fantastic support with €8,000 donated so far. The appeal is being organised by Dublin & Glendalough Council for Mission and concludes on Friday next, June 11, and the fundraising target is €10,000.
The Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd John McDowell, yesterday (Sunday, 6 June 2021) announced the following appointments in the Diocese.
It’s National Volunteers Week and we’re celebrating an extraordinary amateur cyclist who has raised more than £11,000 for Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) and volunteered for the charity for more than 50 years.
A Dublin organist is to play the entire Church Hymnal to raise funds for his parish. David O’Shea, Director of Music at St Philip’s Church in Milltown Parish will play through the Church Hymnal (5th edition) on Friday June 11.
St Columba – Colm Cille – whose birth we commemorate this year, spoke and preached in Irish. Among all the celebrations of the 1,500th anniversary of his birth, it was very fitting that a service was held ‘as Gaeilge’ – in Irish – at his namesake church, St Columba’s, in Gleann Cholm Cille in west Donegal.
St Columba’s, Derryvolgie, Diocese of Connor, is challenging its parishioners to walk the length of Chile in South America during the course of this month as part of its Communicating Clearly project.
A new charity – The Bishop of Cork Pastoral Care Fund – was established in late 2020 by Bishop Paul Colton, with the support of the Diocesan Council, in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
