Diocesan News
Putting food on the table in Mount Merrion
Each week, a table laden with free food is set up outside Mount Merrion Church, Cregagh. It’s part of the church’s mission to care for their community in a holistic way – body, mind and soul.
Each week, a table laden with free food is set up outside Mount Merrion Church, Cregagh. It’s part of the church’s mission to care for their community in a holistic way – body, mind and soul.
The Ordination Newsletter outlines contact details for Diocesan Directors of Ordinands, a listing of students in training (including candidates for Ordained Local Ministry), and a listing of ordinations to the priesthood in this year.
The Archbishop of Armagh and Chairman of the Church of Ireland’s Commission on Christian Unity and Dialogue, the Most Revd John McDowell, has endorsed and encouraged the use of resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, in January 2021.
The Central Communications Board has produced a template document which may be used by a Select Vestry for drawing up a brief social media policy for its parish.
November’s Archive of the Month from the Representative Church Body Library provides a further examination of the transformative decade of the 1960s on the island of Ireland from a Church of Ireland perspective.
Caroline Hughes, a parishioner of St Cedma’s in the Parish of Larne, Inver, Glynn and Raloo, Diocese of Connor, has come up with an inspirational scheme to support girls in the school in which she teaches.
The Sexton’s House Community Hub has recently been completed in Manorhamilton. This beautiful new community space was developed through the Shared Spaces initiative and led by Leitrim County Council.
Sr Isabel and Sr Annmarie are Franciscan Sisters who were members of the Roman Catholic Church but are now ordained priests in the Church of Ireland where they minister to the parishes of St Cartach’s in Castlemaine and St Michael’s in Killorglin in Co. Kerry.