The Dean of Belfast, the Very Rev John Mann, has paid tribute to Father Gerry Reynolds, describing his death on Monday as a loss to the whole Christian Church. Father Reynolds, the Dean said, ‘offered himself to others in love.’
The Columbanus 1400th anniversary celebrations in Bangor reached their climax over the weekend of 20–22 November in a full programme organised jointly between the Friends of Columbanus, Ards and North Down Council, and the local churches.
A stunning piece of wall art commemorating the sinking of the HMS Hawke in World War One was laid up in St Simon’s Church, Donegall Road, at a service on Sunday November 29.
A large number of people attended an ecumenical service of prayer and reflection for climate justice held in St Anne’s Cathedral on November 29 before a rally on climate change.
The tide of Christian ecumenism has ebbed and flowed over the past century; but whether it was at its height or apparently beyond the horizon, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has acted as a practical local reminder that although His Church is fractured, Christ remains undivided and at one with the Father and with all his children.
Dozens of local women defied driving rain and chilly temperatures to attend a prayer vigil against gender violence in St Columb’s Cathedral in Londonderry on Saturday afternoon.
The most recent course in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) marked a landmark moment in the delivery of CPE training in Ireland.
Members of Meath and Kildare diocese are discovering that walking their dogs can be a way of looking after the feet of those with leprosy.
A large congregation gathered in St Teresa’s Carmelite Church on Clarendon Street in Dublin city centre on Wednesday evening (November 25) to pray for climate justice.