The Rev John Pickering celebrates 50 years since his ordination this month (June) and to mark the occasion, Christ Church Parish, Lisburn, is holding a special service on Sunday June 28 at 6.30pm.
Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant for Belfast has said there is no other project in Belfast as important at St Anne’s Cathedral’s Choir School. Mrs Fionnuala Jay-O’Boyle was speaking at an end of term concert staged by the children of the…
Thirty four years after it was consecrated on the anniversary of D Day, the Regimental Chapel in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, has been re-ordered and rededicated. The Chapel hosts a Communion Service every year on the anniversary of the dedication…
The Mission to Seafarers is one of five nominated charities for the Tall Ships Races which visit Belfast Docks from July 2-5. Chaplain, the Rev Colin Hall-Thompson, said this was a chance to not only collect funds for the Mission,…
Couples planning to get married in a parish church in the dioceses of Connor or Down and Dromore, are welcome to attend a Marriage Preparation course at Belfast Cathedral. The Cathedral ran its first course during May, and couples getting…
The Ven Barry Dodds, former Archdeacon of Belfast, will take over the role of Chaplain to Retired Clergy and Clergy Widows from the Rev William Bell. He will join the other Connor Chaplain to Retired Clergy and Clergy Widows, the…
There will be a day of prayer for the renewal and revival of the faith in this land on Saturday, June 20 from 10.30am until 3.30pm. It will be held in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, under the auspices of Divine…
The Rev Andrew Sweeney, rector of the combined parishes of Ballymoney, Rasharkin and Finvoy, has been put in the stocks and bombarded with wet sponges by his parishioners! The rector’s soaking was no reflection on the quality of his sermons,…
The Rev Mike McCann, rector of the Parish of Kilroot and Templecorran, will be spending his summer in the Canadian Arctic! Mike has been granted a sabbatical by the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, and he and…
You are invited to ‘Come and Sing,’ at one of a series of roadshows organised to raise awareness of ‘Thanks and Praise,’ a new supplement to the Church Hymnal. The supplement contains some 200 hymns, songs and liturgical settings reflecting…
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