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New Lenten initiative

Lent is fast approaching. Traditionally a season of abstinence and self–denial, it is also an opportunity to take on some extra responsibility which will have a positive effect on society. In this vein the Bishops’ Appeal, Eco–Congregation Ireland and the Representative Church Body (RCB) are joining forces to promote the Lenten initiative #Jars4Journeys. It aims to offset the impact of the carbon footprint from transport and encourage people to donate every time they make a motorised journey, with the money raised going towards three conservation projects in communities most affected by climate change.

Bishops’ Appeal Education Advisor Lydia Monds said, ‘We are inviting people to save an old jam jar or other recyclable container and every time they make a journey that is not by foot or by bike, they can donate to offset the impact of their carbon footprint. Bishops’ Appeal and the RCB are match–funding the first €1,000/£1,000 raised.’ The three projects to be supported will be solar–powered ovens for Amazonian communities adversely affected by climate change in Bolivia (Christian Aid); conservation farming for self–help groups affected by drought in Ethiopia (Tearfund Ireland); and tree planting and water harvesting for communities affected by unpredictable rainfall, drought and deforestation in Kenya (Green Belt Movement).

Anyone can take part in #Jars4Journeys by downloading jam jar labels at www.bishopsappeal.ireland.anglican.org/campaigns/climate–change and donating every time a journey is taken by car, bus, tram, train or airplane.

This Lenten initiative has been welcomed in the new edition of the Eco–Congregation Newsletter. Also highlighted have been St James church, Crinken, which has received an Eco–Congregation Award for promoting environmental awareness through Shankill Action for a Green Earth (SAGE), and the New Year eco–tips produced by parishioners in Nun’s Cross, Killiskey, which is part of the Wicklow group of parishes.
 
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning at 11.10 am, on RTE 1 television, a live service will be broadcast, celebrating 125 years of the Girls’ Brigade in Ireland. The service will be led by the Revd Canon Lorraine Kennedy–Ritchie, who is an ecumenical Canon of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin. In 1965 the Girls’ Brigade Ireland merged with its Scottish and English counterparts, giving the new Girls’ Brigade a membership of 8,000. Today the Girls’ Brigade operates in over fifty countries throughout the world.

Tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) at 3pm the Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory, the Rt Revd Michael Burrows, will dedicate new windows in St Peter’s church, Mountrath. The Patronal Festival of St Brigid’s cathedral, Kildare, will be celebrated at 3.30pm with a Choral Eucharist sung by the Cathedral Choir, directed by Charles Marshal. The preacher at the service will be the Very Revd Paul Bogle, Dean of Clonmacnoise.

The Dublin & Glendalough Clergy Conference will begin in Galway on Monday and continue until Wednesday.

The Dublin & Glendalough Retired Clergy Fellowship luncheon for retired clergy, their spouses and widows will be held in the Royal Irish Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire, next Tuesday at 12.30pm. In the National Concert Hall the series of lectures on the history and evolution of choral music in Ireland, which has been organized by Chamber Choir Ireland, continues in the National Concert Hall, at 1.10pm, next Tuesday. The speaker will be David O’Shea, Director of Music in Sandford parish, who will discuss ‘Music and Musicians in the Church of Ireland, 1800–1922’. The Past Choristers of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, will hold a table quiz in the cathedral crypt at 7.30pm. For further information and booking contact Victor Coe at pastchoristers@churchchurch.ie

 

 

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