Is the Good News of the Kingdom being proclaimed in our time? This was the question posed at an uplifting Come&C Service in St Maelruain’s Church in Tallaght on Saturday February 6.
Dublin City University’s Inter Faith Centre hosted its first ever ecumenical Ash Wednesday Service yesterday (February 10). The service was led by Archbishop Michael Jackson with assistance from DCU Chaplain Fr Séamus McEntee, the Principal of the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dr Anne Lodge, and DCU Chaplain Philip McKinley.
The Bishop of Connor’s annual Lent Seminar series got underway in Jordanstown Parish Centre on Tuesday February 9, with more than 110 people coming along to hear the Bishop speak on the theme of Grace.
Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, visited the Shankill area of Belfast on February 4, and one of the venues she called into was St Andrew’s, Glencairn.
Last weekend, 5th–7th February, the annual weekend away for youth leaders in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross took place in the Blarney Golf Resort.
On Monday evening, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby, delivered the annual Church of Ireland Theological Lecture at Queen’s University, Belfast. Speaking to students, university staff, clergy and members of the public, Archbishop Justin encouraged the packed Elmwood Hall audience to focus their hearts on reconciliation. The topic is a high priority for the Archbishop, who has worked and written extensively on reconciliation and mediation projects.
The Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke, joined with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby, to meet the First Minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster MLA, in Belfast yesterday prior to the annual Church of Ireland Theological Lecture at Queen’s University.
More than 220 charities received a share of the money raised during the 2015 Black Santa Sit–out at the annual Good Samaritans Service in St Anne’s Cathedral on February 7.
A former rector and a veteran civil rights activist were among members of the public who joined clergy and worshippers from the Christ Church, Culmore, Muff and St Peter’s Group of Parishes on Saturday afternoon for the Celebration and Dedication of their recently refurbished parish centre on Londonderry’s Culmore Road.
The Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, has made the following statement in response to the news of the closure of the Synagogue in Cork.