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Mothering Sunday flowers and blessings at gates of Cork churches
Churches find themselves in lockdown like everyone else, and they are closed for public worship, but there are still open hearts of kindness and generosity.
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A St Patrick’s Day message from the Archbishops of Armagh
A video with Archbishops John McDowell and Eamon Martin, filmed in and between their cathedrals in Armagh, ahead of St Patrick’s Day 2021.
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St Patrick’s Breastplate
Tom Maxwell and The Lockdown Collaboration Choir have provided a recording of St Patrick’s Breastplate that may be used in St Patrick’s Day services or, indeed, privately.
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Ballymoney, Finvoy and Rasharkin MU provide wash bags and trauma teddies
The ladies from Ballymoney, Finvoy and Rasharkin branch of Mothers’ Union (MU) have been very busy gathering and preparing items for wash bags following an appeal from Sanna Mallon, Church of Ireland Chaplain at the Royal Victoria and Musgrave Park hospitals.
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Churches feature in new Health Hub app
The Larder at St Christopher’s, Mount Merrion Church and Mount Merrion’s Community Health and Fitness Hub are all featured in the recently launched Health Hub East Belfast smartphone app.
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Video message from Bishop Paul Colton to Confirmation candidates in Cork, Cloyne and Ross
The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Dr Paul Colton, has recorded a short video message for those young people who had hoped to be confirmed in the past year, or who are thinking of being confirmed.
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Retirement of long–serving County Cork church organist
Late last year – 2020 – Mrs Freda Salter Townshend – organist in the Church of Saint Barrahane, Castletownshend, County Cork, for the previous 21 years, retired.
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New chaplain appointed to Beaumont, Connolly and the Mater Hospitals
Two new hospital chaplaincy appointments have been made by Archbishop Michael Jackson.
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Columbarium wall dedicated in Irishtown
A new columbarium wall in the graveyard of St Matthew’s Church in Irishtown was dedicated by Archbishop Michael Jackson on Sunday February 28. The columbarium will offer a place of repose for parishioners and for people from the wider community.
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Tuam, Killala and Achonry Bible reading challenge continues
Tuam, Killala and Achonry’s Bible reading challenge, to raise funds for clean water supplies in Kenya, is continuing.
