Friends, supporters, volunteers and staff gathered in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, on Wednesday 27th November for the 3rd Annual Christmas Concert for St Luke’s Home and what a great concert it turned out to be.
Last month at the Patronal Festival in the Church of St Mary and All Saints’, Glanmire County Cork, the Sunday Club was relaunched.
The Church Leaders, at their meeting in Armagh on Friday (6th December), met with representatives of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, including Chief Constable Simon Byrne.
The new Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, was ordained by the Archbishop of Armagh at a Service of Consecration in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh on Sunday afternoon, in front of leaders of the other main churches in Ireland.
Upper Falls Parish Church, Suffolk, Belfast, Diocese of Connor, has been awarded first place in the Alzheimer’s Society Awards in the small/medium dementia–friendly organisation of the year category.
A history of the Church of Ireland over the last fifty years was launched at Church of Ireland House, Belfast, on Tuesday evening (3rd December) by the Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson.
The Porvoo Declaration commits the Churches which have signed it ‘to share a common life’ and ‘to pray for and with one another’. An important way of doing this is to pray through the year for the Porvoo Churches and their dioceses.
One of the many striking exhibits in ‘Angels Among Us’ in Magheralin Parish Church is Peter’s Angel which was created by prisoners from HMP Maghaberry working with the Extern Works Light Engineering Programme.
New primary school boards of management took office on Sunday, 1st December 2019, for a four–year period and, on Tuesday, 3rd December, at an early opportunity, the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Dr Paul Colton, invited all the members of the boards for Church of Ireland primary schools in Cork, Cloyne and Ross to dinner at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Little Island.
