Christmas & New Year Message from the Archbishops of Armagh
The Most Rev Dr Richard Clarke and The Most Rev Eamon Martin, Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic Archbishops of Armagh have issued a Joint Christmas and New Year Message.
The Most Rev Dr Richard Clarke and The Most Rev Eamon Martin, Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic Archbishops of Armagh have issued a Joint Christmas and New Year Message.
“I want to celebrate this Christmas as never before as I recognise God’s most amazing gift of Jesus.”
Battling a nasty virus which has laid him low for the past week and played havoc with his voice, Dean Stephen Forde launched the 43rd annual Black Santa Sit-out on Monday morning.
“It costs about £1,200 a day – which works out at around £1.41 per minute – to have the Cathedral open.”
Thanks to everyone in the Parishes of Drummaul, Duneane and Ballyscullion who have been donating socks for homeless shelters throughout Northern Ireland for the last three Sundays.
St Patrick’s, Broughshane, will hold a special Service of Remembrance on Sunday December 29 for those children lost to miscarriage and stillbirth.
The United Parish of Christ Church and St John, Ballyclare, raised £1,424 at a recent craft fair.
The 2019 Black Santa Sit-out for charities gets underway on the steps of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Monday December 16.
St Columba’s Parish, Derryvolgie, set about raising funds for a potentially life-saving defibrillator for the church, and ending up being able to purchase not one, but three defibrillators!
Upper Falls Parish Church, Suffolk, Belfast, has been awarded first place in the Alzheimer’s Society Awards in the small/medium dementia-friendly organisation of the year category.
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