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Bishop Andrew Forster’s Christmas message 2022
“I pray that you will discover what the Magi knew – and what our late Queen found out – that the greatest gift any of us can ever receive is Jesus Christ.”
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Joint Christmas Message from the Bishops of Clogher 2022
“As Christmas approaches, we join together in prayer–filled reflection to look forward with hope to the coming days when we mark the coming of God as one of us.”
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Launch of Belfast Black Santa appeal
The 2022 Black Santa Sit–out for charities got underway on the steps of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, this morning (Monday December 19).
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A Christmas reflection by Bishop Adrian Wilkinson
A reflection for Christmas 2022 by the Rt Revd Adrian Wilkinson, Bishop of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory.
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Joint Christmas Message from the Bishops of Cork 2022
The Rt Revd Dr Paul Colton & The Most Revd Dr Fintan Gavin
“Jesus Christ is the light who shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not put out that light.”
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Advent & Christmas Services at St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork
All are welcome to the Services for Advent and Christmas 2022 and into 2023 in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork.
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Clerics to wrap up warm for charity sit outs
Two leading clerics in Clogher Diocese will be wrapping up warm over the next few weeks as they prepare for 12–hour charity sit outs.
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Festive fun for young people at Destination event in Antrim
The Parish Centre at All Saints’, Antrim, was positively brimming with Christmas spirit on Friday December 2 when it hosted the Destination Christmas Event, organised by the Diocese of Connor Youth Forum.
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A warm Donegal welcome for refugees from Ukraine
The Bishop’s Curate in the Moville Group of Parishes, the Rev Alan McCracken, has been acknowledged for his ministry among Ukrainian refugees who have fled the war in their homeland and settled in Inishowen in north Donegal.
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Advent 2022: What does the future hold?
In this first episode of our Advent series with Bishop Ferran Glenfield, we turn to Isaiah’s vision of a time when swords will be beat into ploughshares and there will be no more war.
