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Church Leaders’ 2025 New Year Message
‘We believe that our beginnings and our endings are in Jesus Christ. In faith we never journey alone, for He is our guide and the voice of truth and hope. May we all journey well in 2025.’
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A Christmas bedtime story
Willowfield Church, in the Diocese of Down and Dromore, has produced a very special bedtime story first shared on Christmas Eve, which can bring a smile to everyone this season.
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Christmas in Kildare concert on RTÉ
RTÉ broadcast a major new television and radio programme called ‘Christmas in Kildare’, from St Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare, on Christmas Eve on RTÉ One and RTÉ Lyric FM.
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Dean Stephen Farrell features in ‘The Kilkenny Nativity’
St Luke’s account of the Christmas story has been told through the voices of the people of the city and county of Kilkenny, broadcast on RTÉ television this Christmas.
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Archbishops’ Christmas Message on RTÉ Player
This year’s Christmas message from the Archbishops of Armagh was filmed in Armagh Observatory and Planetarium and drew on the theme of the Christmas Star.
Diocesan News
Christmas Day 2024 – Sermon by the Archbishop of Dublin
St John 1.1 and 3: ‘… what God was, the Word was … without him no created thing came into being.’
Sermon preached on Christmas Day 2024 in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, by Archbishop Michael Jackson.
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Christmas address from Bishop Michael Burrows
Bishop of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe
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Christmas message from Bishop Andrew Forster
Bishop of Derry and Raphoe
‘Whenever we feel lost or abandoned, when our world is in turmoil, when the valley is at its darkest, Jesus is the one constant we can turn to.’
Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’