Archbishop John McDowell’s reflection at the MindMatters conference drew out what hope and love can mean in the context of mental health, following on from Archbishop Welby’s keynote address on faith earlier in the day.
Many thanks to the guest speakers, attendees and staff at Armagh’s Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre for the successful ‘Primacy of Peace’ conference organised by Armagh Robinson Library and the Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Library and Archive.
“Positive mental health is a journey, not a destination, and a journey that we tend to travel very quietly … and yet there can be healing,”
Almost 200 delegates attended this year’s Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Synod at the Everglades Hotel in Londonderry last Wednesday (25th October).
Mishkins, a story the late Revd Cecil Wilson told to his daughters when they were children, has been released as a book with the proceeds of all sales going to CMSI.
Many of us like to make a gift in memory of a loved one who has died, either at the time of their death, or an anniversary date, or at a time like All Saints Day or Remembrance Day. It’s a lovely way to honour the memory of a family member or someone who has been a significant influence on our lives.
On Sunday June 2 2024, the Cathedral Church of St Anne, Belfast, will mark the 120th anniversary of the consecration of the Nave of the Cathedral with a service of Celebration and Thanksgiving.
“What we all need to have and to share worldwide is the grace of sympathy and of empathy,” Archbishop Michael Jackson remarked as he opened the Church of Ireland’s MindMatters conference, in Dublin’s Radisson Blu Hotel, on Friday (20th October).
The thirty–third meeting of the Irish Inter–Church Meeting took place on Thursday and Friday last week (19th–20th October) in Dromantine Conference Centre, Newry. The theme for the meeting was ‘Our Reconciling Vision of Hope: Fifty years since the Ballymascanlon Talks’.
