Dr Peter Hamill, Secretary to the Board of Education (NI), and Dr Ken Fennelly, Secretary to the Board of Education (RI), recently visited Tallinn in Estonia to take part in the annual conference of the International Association for Christian Education.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod met on Tuesday 20th November 2018 in Church of Ireland House, Dublin.
Young people from the Church of Ireland Diocese of Connor have developed a ground–breaking resource written entirely by young people for young people.
This year, the KEA MU prayer vigil took place in St John’s Church in Longford and was led by Canon David Catterall.
On Sunday 25th November, Dean Nigel Crossey joined with Fr Séan McDermott and the Cavan Rugby Choir for an Ecumenical Prayer Service of Remembrance to mark the end of the First World War Centenary at Cavan County Museum.
In the week before 11th November 2018, the centenary of the Armistice at the end of the First World War in 1918, the Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton, arranged to distribute an olive tree to each school in the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. These were then the focus of acts of commemoration at school assemblies and activities to mark the end of the First World War.
Armistice Day 2018 was marked in Bantry with a special ecumenical service at St Brendan’s Church. The high point of the ceremony was the unveiling of a new First World War memorial plaque following the traditional two minutes of silence at 11am.
The Concerts Programme at St Mary’s (Church of Ireland), Killarney, the Church of the Sloes, has been running for more than 10 years and has grown substantially.
On Wednesday November 21 the Belfast Cathedral Girls’ Choir was joined by Jubilate! Chamber Choir and the Voices Together Community Choir for a concert of hope and celebration on the Eve of St Cecilia’s Day.
