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Diocesan Synods 2021
Please note that arrangements, including venues, are subject to change over the coming months.
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Castlerock rector celebrates St Columba in Irish language service in Donegal Gaeltacht
St Columba – Colm Cille – whose birth we commemorate this year, spoke and preached in Irish. Among all the celebrations of the 1,500th anniversary of his birth, it was very fitting that a service was held ‘as Gaeilge’ – in Irish – at his namesake church, St Columba’s, in Gleann Cholm Cille in west Donegal.
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Council for Mission
Council for Mission webinar on Online Church now available
by the Revd Cliff Jeffers
The Church of Ireland Council for Mission held a webinar using Zoom on Thursday, 3rd June 2021, on the theme of ‘Online Church – Practical Lessons from the Frontline’. To facilitate anyone who was not able to attend, a video of the webinar is now available on the Council’s public Facebook page.
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Property events for parishes (NI)
The National Churches Trust is organising a number of free online events in the next couple of weeks, aimed specifically at supporting places of worship in Northern Ireland. Please see details of each event below, including booking details.
Diocesan News
Derryvolgie parishioners set to walk the length of Chile!
St Columba’s, Derryvolgie, Diocese of Connor, is challenging its parishioners to walk the length of Chile in South America during the course of this month as part of its Communicating Clearly project.
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Church of Ireland and Southern African ordinands meet virtually
On Monday 31st May, ordinands from the Church of Ireland Theological Institute (CITI) took part in a virtual meeting with fellow ordinands from the College of the Transfiguration (COTT), Grahamstown, South Africa, which is the provincial training centre for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Diocesan News
Founders’ appeal for new Cork, Cloyne and Ross charity raises nearly €162,000: €124,000 in just 14 weeks
A new charity – The Bishop of Cork Pastoral Care Fund – was established in late 2020 by Bishop Paul Colton, with the support of the Diocesan Council, in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
Diocesan News
50 @ 50 4 £5,000 at Drumglass
After turning 50 years old, the new rector of Drumglass Parish, the Rev. Bryan Martin, has asked his parishioners to raise over £5000 as he, and others, walk 50 miles from St. Elizabeth’s Church of Ireland, Moygashel, to St. Columb’s Cathedral, Londonderry to meet their former rector, the Rt. Rev. Andrew Forster (now Bishop of Derry and Raphoe).
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Launch of ‘A Welcoming Church’
A resource for churches to better support people with disabilities
The Church of Ireland Youth Department, in collaboration with Dublin and Glendalough Youth Officer Susie Keegan and the Disability Advisor with the Diocese of Leeds, Katherine–Alice Grasham, has produced a new resource pack – entitled A Welcoming Church – to help churches think about how they might better support people with different disabilities in the church environment.
