Parishes across the Church of Ireland have been creatively celebrating Harvest in recent weeks. This selection of photos records some of the ways in which parishioners have used their skills to praise God for His goodness towards us.
A short film highlighting aims and impacts of ‘A Place to Call Home’ – the Dublin and Glendalough Refugee Accommodation Project – has been launched.
A group of visionary and energetic university students from across Dublin have come together to re–establish regular worship in St Thomas’s Church of Ireland Church, which stands at the gateway of O’Connell Street into Dublin’s North East Inner City.
The Season of Advent begins on Sunday 2nd December, and so starts a new liturgical year and a fresh cycle of daily Scripture readings. Church of Ireland Publishing has announced that ‘Sunday and Weekday Readings 2019’ is now available.
In a very wet day on Saturday 13th October, on a hillside near Courtmacsherry, County Cork, the Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton, unveiled a memorial to Henrietta and Ida Howell, two sisters who lived at Ballycullinane in that parish, and who perished in the sinking of the RMS Leinster when it was hit by two torpedoes on 10th October 1918.
The Annual Meeting of the Diocesan Synod of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh took place on Saturday 3rd October in Carrick–on–Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
The Irish Government has awarded €20,000 in urgent funding to repair the spire of Donegal Parish Church.
Affirm, a new project to support young people going through difficulty, is being launched in Connor Diocese.
Mothers’ Union members from all over Ireland travelled to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Saturday October 6 for the All–Ireland Triennial Thanksgiving Service.
