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Black Santa is back on the Cathedral steps!
Black Santa is back on the steps of Belfast Cathedral, with the 48th annual sit–out for charities getting underway at 10am on Monday December 16.
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2024 Black Santa Sit Out underway in Dublin
The 2024 Black Santa Sit Out is now in full swing outside St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street.
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Christmas Day broadcast with the Archbishops of Armagh
RTÉ One & RTÉ Radio One
This year’s Christmas message from the Archbishops of Armagh, which was filmed in Armagh Observatory and Planetarium and draws on the theme of the Christmas Star, will be broadcast on Christmas Day at 12.10pm on RTÉ One television and 1.05pm on RTÉ Radio One.
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Bishop David McClay’s Christmas Message 2024
Bishop David speaks from St Patrick’s Ballymacarrett, which is to become a reinvigorated worshipping community on the Lower Newtownards Road, in East Belfast.
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2024 Christmas message from the Dean of Limerick
The Very Revd Niall Sloane
‘… it is a new–born child who simply by his birth brings calm, order, and a peace beyond all human understanding. A peace that penetrates every heart that permits it entry.’
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Clergy involved in charity sit–outs before Christmas
A number of clergy from Clogher Diocese will be raising money for charities next week as they hold Black Santa sit–outs.
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Bishops of Cork bless S.H.A.R.E. Crib
The S.H.A.R.E. Cork collection was inaugurated for the 55th year on Friday, 13th December 2024, by the Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Dan Boyle, and the S.H.A.R.E. Crib on St Patrick’s Street, Cork was blessed by the two bishops: Dr Paul Colton and Dr Fintan Gavin.
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Voices ‘raised in joyful song’ at Anne Trust Carolfest
Children from seven different primary schools in the Belfast area came together in St Anne’s Cathedral over two mornings to participate in the annual St Anne Trust Carolfest.
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The role of Royal School and its tenant farmers in new book
A new book, Enniskillen Royal School and its Tenant Farmers in the Nineteenth Century – Worlds Apart, detailing the origins of the school and the estate of land that was granted under the terms of the Plantation of Ulster in 1608 has been launched.
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‘Hope does not disappoint’ – the newborn Jesus is the source of our hope
The Most Revd Larry Duffy & The Rt Revd Dr Ian Ellis
‘Jesus, through his life, death and resurrection gives us a hope and a peace that the world can never give. If we look elsewhere, we will come up short.’
