Delegates at the annual Ignite Conference for Church Mission Society Ireland (CMSI)supporters, which took place in Dromantine Retreat and Conference centre near Newry on Saturday 13th September, were among the first to hear the news that the Society’s Mission Director Jenny Smyth plans to retire from the role in the coming months.
The Liturgical Advisory Committee has shared a prayer for wisdom, to encourage each of us, at whatever age or stage, to commit our living, and our learning, to God.
Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, is delighted to announce the appointment of its first Artist in Residence, Ms Nici LeGear.
Nici will begin her residency in Mid–September and shall be in post until the end of October. The theme of her residency will be ‘Echoes in Stone: Landscapes of Memory’.
The total raised by the Pancakes and Prayer Lent project has brought in enough money to feed almost 4,000 children in South Sudan for the next year. The project, run by the Church of Ireland Youth Department (CIYD) and the Bishops’ Appeal for World Aid and Development, encouraged youth groups and Sunday schools to get involved in praying for schools in South Sudan during Lent and raising funds – perhaps through giving something up, or by different initiatives within a parish or school community to contribute to the fundraising.
Archbishop John McDowell and Archbishop Michael Jackson are urging everyone in each parish and church community to join together in prayer and consider a time of fasting on Sunday, 21st September 2025 – this is the UN International Day of Peace.
St Mark’s Church, Dundela, became the first church on the island of Ireland in which the Colours of the Irish Guards have been laid up on Sunday, 7th September 2025. The sermon was preached by the Revd Canon Dr Helene Steed on this occasion, from Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 and Romans 8: 35–39.
St Mark’s, Dundela, on East Belfast’s Holywood Road, hosted the Laying Up of Colours for the Irish Regiment of Foot Guards – best known as the Irish Guards – on Sunday afternoon (7th September 2025) as part of celebrations for the regiment’s 125th anniversary.
The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, has announced his intention to retire. In a letter sent on Friday (5th September) to clergy and co–workers in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Bishop Colton said that he believed that ‘now, under God, the time has come to retire’.
A new Diocesan Secretary has been appointed in Clogher Diocese – Miss Joyce Clingan, who has just taken early retirement as Principal of Queen Elizabeth II Primary School, Kilskeery.
