On Saturday, 22nd April 2023, the second seminar of the Diocesan MindMatters programme was held at the Rochestown Park Hotel. Professor Ella Arensman and Dr Eve Griffin from the National Suicide Research Foundation spoke on the subject of mental health and suicide.
A new short film, ‘Camino de Dublin’, written and directed by historian Caoimhe Leppard, documents the ancient pilgrim journey that medieval pilgrims would have taken from St James’s Gate through the city of Dublin to the area in which pilgrims would have embarked to set sail for Spain, allowing us to follow in the footsteps of those medieval pilgrims today.
Holy Week and Easter – the greatest festival of the Christian calendar – has just taken place. In this summary, we gather up stories, photos and videos from services and events throughout the Church of Ireland in this week of all weeks.
St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, hosted a service to mark the Quadricentennial Year of the Parish of Enniskillen on Friday, 24 March, the Feast Day of Saint Macartin.
Walled City Passion, which stages a re–imagining of the Easter story, will return to Londonderry’s city walls again this year.
An invitation to join us for ‘At Home with Patrick – Past, Present and Future’ and the annual St Patrick’s Lecture at the Market Place Theatre, the Vigil Walk, and special services for St Patrick’s Eve and Day.
Clergy from the United Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough have recently returned from Jordan for a joint retreat with clergy of their partner Diocese of Jerusalem.
A year after the start of the full scale invasion of Ukraine, people of Greystones gathered in solidarity with their Ukrainian friends at the Rise at Coolnagreina, Tiglin, on Friday February 24.
At Armagh’s Diocesan Synod in October 2022 the Archbishop of Armagh launched a diocesan wide programme called the ‘Flourish Initiative’. This exciting new venture facilitated by the Rev David McComb (Lisnadill and Kildarton) and Mr David Brown, the Diocesan Youth and Children’s Development Officer, seeks to inspire and support parishes to play an active part in the restoration of God’s creation.
The Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Right Reverend Andrew Forster, has condemned the attempted murder of a police officer in Omagh, on Wednesday evening, as “callous and evil”.
