“I ask people to keep the bereaved and injured in their prayers, and to remember, too, members of the emergency services – and the people of Creeslough – who have been doing their utmost to save lives. We, as a community, owe them an enormous debt of gratitude.”
“It is our calling under God to live in a time of vision, not division,” Archbishop Michael Jackson said this evening (Tuesday October 4). In his Presidential Address to Dublin & Glendalough’s Diocesan Synods, he called on the people of the dioceses to adopt a “hierarchy of urgency” setting new priorities and shaking up values to look and live beyond ourselves.
The commencement of the new Law Term was marked on Monday morning (October 3) with a service in St Michan’s Church in Dublin 7. Attended by a range of people associated with Ireland’s justice system, as well as some from the UK, the Michaelmas New Law Term Service made a comeback after a two year gap.
“We are all together in this apostolic tradition,” Archbishop Michael Jackson told Ordinands in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute on Wednesday evening (October 5). He commissioned seven first year students as Student Readers during the Community Eucharist.
The Church of Ireland Youth Department (CIYD) is delighted to launch its Climate Justice Toolkit – a resource pack which explores climate change from a global justice perspective.
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) produces a monthly email newsletter – Witnessing Together.
“This is a key moment for the future of our church, we must reach out and be relevant and welcoming.”
Trustee training sessions for Republic of Ireland select vestry members are due to begin this month, hosted by Mrs Janet Maxwell, Head of Synod Services in the RCB.
A summary of news from dioceses and parishes around the Church of Ireland in recent weeks.
