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Michaelmas Law Term opens with service at St Michan's, Dublin
The Annual Church of Ireland Law Service to mark the opening of the Michaelmas Law Term was held on Monday 6th October 2008 at St Michan’s Church, Dublin.
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'The Right Move' Careers Conference
An innovative new conference addressing the wide range of possibilities for vocational careers is to be held on Tuesday 14 October 2008 at the Whitla Hall at Queen’s University, Belfast. The aim of ‘The Right Move Conference’ is to equip young people facing challenging career decisions and share some of the excitement of embracing a vision of the future which integrates life, work and faith.
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Irish Church Leaders Urged To 'Move Beyond Their Clan'
Church leaders from across Ireland met together in Dromantine Conference and Retreat Centre, Co. Down on Wednesday 28 September 2008 to consider their responsibilities as part of a community ‘Moving Forward Together in Diversity’.
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2009 Lectionary Published by CIP
Sunday and Weekday Readings 2009, a helpful 60-page booklet setting out clearly all the provisions for bible reading in church from Advent Sunday 2008 to the eve of Advent Sunday 2009, has just been published by Church of Ireland Publishing.
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Hard Gospel Intercultural Training
Four regional intercultural training days, organised by the Hard Gospel Project and led by a leading anti-racism activist Benedicta Attoh, will take place through November and December for church members looking to deal positively with issues of racism and interculturalism.
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'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing' Hard Gospel Report to be Launched
A ground-breaking new report commissioned by the Church of Ireland’s Hard Gospel Project looking at the views and experiences of Border Protestants living in the Diocese of Clogher is to be launched on 25 September 2008. The report, entitled ‘Whatever You Say, Say Nothing’, has been written by Mr David Gardiner and will be launched by the Bishop of Clogher, the Rt Revd Michael Jackson, and the Director of the Hard Gospel Project, the Revd Earl Storey, at the Clogher Diocesan Synod.
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Archbishop of Armagh's Address at Reopening of St Thomas', Belfast
Sermon preached by the Most Revd Alan Harper, OBE,
Archbishop of Armagh, at the Reopening of the Restored and Reordered St Thomas' Church, Belfast 19 September 2008
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Reopening of Refurbished St Thomas' Church, Belfast
St Thomas' Parish Church, Belfast reopening after an impressive restoration and refurbishment
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Enthronement of Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe
The Rt Revd Trevor Williams will be installed and enthroned as Bishop of Limerick on Sunday 14 September 2008 in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick at 4.30pm and as Bishop of Killaloe in St Flannan’s Cathedral, Killaloe on Friday 19 September 2008 at 8pm.
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Church of Ireland Group Meets With NI Commission for Victims and Survivors
Members of the Church of Ireland’s Social Justice and Theology Group (NI), a sub-group of its Church in Society Committee, recently met with the four Commissioners for Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland in Armagh.