On Friday March 11 the St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, Junior Girls’ Choir sang Evensong for the first time. They sang the opening plainsong responses, a form of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis as well as an anthem and a hymn. There…
The Rev Jonny Campbell-Smyth, curate assistant at St Patrick’s, Jordanstown, will travel to Chile on March 15 to spend a week in the capital Santiago, He will be accompanied by Bishop Ken (Fanta) Clarke, mission director of SAMS (South America…
The Down & Dromore and Connor Organ Scholarship Management Board is inviting applications for scholarships for the year 2017. Scholarships are tenable for three years, subject to a satisfactory assessment at the end of each of the first and second…
Sunday Worship on BBC Radio 4 this Sunday, March 13, will be broadcast live from St Peter’s Parish Church, Antrim Road, Belfast. The service, which gets underway at 8.10am, will feature the Priory Singers, directed by Robert Thompson. The BBC…
Members of the Retired Clergy Association held a Service of Holy Communion in the Chapel of Unity in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Tuesday March 8. This was followed by a talk by the Rev Ron Elsdon entitled Genesis and…
More than 130 people attended the Bishop of Connor’s second Lent Seminar in Dunluce Parish Centre, Bushmills, on Tuesday March 7. The Rt Rev Alan Abernethy was continuing his theme of Grace. The Bishop has now spoken at five seminars…
Parish Nursing is an initiative of the Cinnamon Network. The project helps local churches to appoint nurses who in turn support people and communities towards whole person healthcare. Information sessions on Parish Nursing will be held in Northern Ireland on…
The Very Rev Sam Wright, BTh, MA, was installed as Dean of Connor at a service in Lisburn Cathedral on Thursday March 3. Two new Canons were also installed in the Chapter of St Saviour, Connor, while several existing Canons…
Applications for financial support from Connor Mission Support Fund 2016 are now open. The Fund is administered by Connor Council for Mission which is keen to deepen a sense of mission throughout all parishes within the diocese. It was first…
Connor Youth Forum held its first event – a residential meeting on the north coast – on February 26 & 27. Members of the Youth Forum began to draft a logo and consider ways of influencing their own parishes. They…
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