The importance of listening to the voices of pupils in the education system has been highlighted by the Junior Minister at the Department of Education, Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor, at the launch of a new project for Church of Ireland primary schools.
Over 100 clergy, diocesan readers, parish and diocesan staff gathered for the annual diocesan Quiet Day in St Ignatius, Carryduff, on Shrove Tuesday 5 March.
The Revd Catherine Simpson, Curate Assistant of the Parish of Seapatrick, in the Diocese of Dromore, has been appointed as Incumbent of the Parish of Glencraig, in the Diocese of Down.
The service of institution at St Anne’s, Killough, on Sunday 3 March was a first for the diocese with the institution of two vicars together.
There was warm applause in St Columba’s Church of Ireland in Omagh, on Sunday morning, 3rd March, after a special presentation to one of its own parishioners, Lee Mitchell, ahead of his trip to the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi.
Almost one week after the theft of the head of the 800 year old mummy known as ‘The Crusader’ from the crypt of St Michan’s Church, Dublin, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, has made a further plea for its safe return.
“There’s a stirring going on here,” the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Ken Good, told worshippers in Donegal Town, on Friday evening, “and practical steps are being taken to respond to spiritual things.”
The Church of Ireland’s Day of Prayer for Young People and Youth Ministry is coming up this Sunday (3rd March). In this interview, Simon Henry from CIYD highlights some practical ideas from its new resource and discusses how young people value prayer.
