Diocesan News
Candles burn for Covid lives lost
People from across Northern Ireland and beyond joined an online Service of Reflection live–streamed by Belfast Cathedral on March 23 – the anniversary of the first Covid–19 lockdown.
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Voices: Mission for Holy Week & Easter
With many voices clamouring for our attention every day, who are we listening to? Join us online from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday for eight life–changing messages from the gospel accounts of Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection.
Diocesan News
Cork Diocesan Youth Council create five dramas online for Holy Week
Last January, the Cork Diocesan Youth Council (CDYC), under the leadership of Diocesan Youth Officer Hilda Connolly, decided they needed a new project to occupy themselves in lockdown.
Diocesan News
The Easter Story shared with every prisoner in Northern Ireland
The ‘Galilee Gazette’, an imaginary newspaper being printed and circulated this Easter in Magheralin Parish, has also gone out to every prisoner in Northern Ireland’s jails.
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West Cork parish marks one year of online worship with interview with Bishop Paul Colton
Fanlobbus Union of Parishes in West Cork – Dunmanway, Drimoleague, Drinagh and Coolkelure – marked the anniversary of part of its online response to the Coronavirus pandemic, and the closure of church buildings for public worship, on Sunday 21st March.
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Statement by the Archbishop of Armagh
The Most Revd John McDowell, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has issued the following statement in relation to plans by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to direct the Northern Ireland Executive’s Department of Health to commission abortion services.
Diocesan News
‘Thank You’ from Bishop Paul Colton on the occasion of the first anniversary of the closure of churches for public worship in Cork, Cloyne and Ross
The Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, has sent a ‘thank you’ message to the people of the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross today – the start of the weekend marking the first anniversary of the first closure of churches for public worship in the Diocese.
Diocesan News
Iconic Shandon Church tower lights up in green for Saint Patrick’s Festival
The iconic Cork landmark – the tower of Saint Anne’s Church, Shandon – joined Cork City Hall and 690 other buildings in 66 countries around the world in ‘going green’ to mark Saint Patrick’s Day 2021.
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Find time for each other
by the Revd Jonny Campbell–Smyth
Over the last year, all of us have experienced extended periods at home, and this has led to many positive stories of people helping one another, but isolation can be a strain on all of us.
