Following the success of the Christmas collaboration, when singers and choirs in Dublin and Glendalough and beyond recorded a carol service to a high standard, a similar project is planned with John Stainer’s well–known ‘The Crucifixion’.
In the third of his short reflections for Epiphany 2021, Archbishop Michael Jackson looks at St Mark 1: 14–20, which includes Jesus’ call to his disciples to be fishers of men.
The Rev Christopher St John, formerly curate in St Mark’s, Dundela, Diocese of Down and Dromore, was instituted as rector of St Nicholas’, Carrickfergus, by his predecessor, the Rt Rev George Davison, Bishop of Connor.
A team of volunteers from St John’s Lurgan has been ‘getting the Word out’ and through the letterboxes of the local community. Yesterday, they delivered 300 copies of John’s Gospel plus invitations to an online Alpha Course.
Parishes throughout Dublin & Glendalough are being urged to volunteer suitable churches and parish buildings for use as mass vaccination centres.
“People want to know and are asking deep questions.” That’s the observation of the Revd Myrtle Morrison as she visits patients in her role as a member of the Craigavon Area Hospital’s Chaplaincy Team.
The Dean of Clogher, the Very Revd Kenneth Hall, has expressed his shock and sadness following the news of the death of the Right Revd Ellinah Wamukoya, the Bishop of the Diocese of Swaziland.
The international Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is taking place place as ever from 18–25 January. Naturally in these times of a global pandemic we are unable to meet physically with fellow Christians to pray and study together.
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is running from January 18 to 25. This year, as churches are currently closed for public worship, Dublin Council of Churches presents their inaugural service online on their YouTube channel.
Archbishop Michael Jackson is sharing reflections based on the Gospel readings for each Sunday in the season of Epiphany.