Engage Connor Youth Council is looking forward to a busy and eventful 2017. The Youth Council seeks to connect with and support young people across the diocese through a programme of events to engage them with faith, friendship and service….
I do enjoy the Christmas Market, the tangible excitement of children, the smell of food, the crush of people all enjoying the buzz. As well as the market there are the crowds shopping and the queues of traffic seeking somewhere…
The 40th annual Black Santa Sit-out for charities is underway on the steps of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast. Dean John Mann was joined for the first ‘shift’ by Methodist Minister the Rev Canon Ruth Patterson, and Dean’s Vicar, the Rev…
Three Lisburn Cathedral parishioners returned from Burkino Faso at the weekend after spending three weeks with a Friends in Action drilling team. Denis Fullerton, Keith Forsythe and Tim Flanagan had flown to the north African country to join a team led by…
A small but unusual gift with a long connection to Connor Diocese was presented to St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on St Andrew’s Day (November 30). The gift, which will remain in the Cathedral for safekeeping and display, is the private…
Magheragall Parish Church hosted a combined Confirmation Service on Sunday November 27. There were four candidates from Ballinderry, five from Derryvolgie and 17 from Magheragall More than 220 people attended this joint service.
An Advent exhibition of handcrafted quilts has opened in Larne, and already several hundred people have flocked to St Cedma’s Church to view the fantastic skills of the Parish Piecemakers. The group has been established for 10 years and meets…
The Parishes of Drummaul, Duneane and Ballyscullion this week delivered 104 ‘Handbags of Hope/Washbags for Men’ to the Ballymena Foodbank. For the four weeks leading up to the First Sunday in Advent parishioners were asked to take an unwanted handbag…
Santas – meet Santa! Belfast’s Black Santa, Dean John Mann, welcomed several traditional Santas to St Anne’s Cathedral this morning as the Santa Clauses prepare for the fifth annual Santa Dash! The colourful spectacle, which takes place on Sunday…
Clergy from across Connor Diocese enjoyed an excellent and informative Quiet Morning with special guest speaker the Very Rev Pete Wilcox, Dean of Liverpool, on November 10. The day was hosted at Lisburn Cathedral by the Bishop of Connor, the…
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