The Rev Rachel Creighton, chaplain to Wellingborough Prison, has been appointed rector of Holy Trinity and St Silas with Immanuel. A native of Fermanagh, Rachel comes ‘home’ to north Belfast after many years in England. The 44-year-old grew up in…
Connor Diocese has designated November 30 Organ Donor Sunday and is actively encouraging parishioners to sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register. Information and application forms will be distributed to everyone who attends church in the diocese’s 77 parishes…
The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, joined the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, the Most Revd Alan Harper, OBE to welcome His Eminence Metropolitan John, Archbishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Western and…
The potential of taking down the peace walls will be under debate at a Hard Gospel Beyond the Box seminar taking place in Connor. The Seminars aim to tackle difficult issues in Northern Ireland today, and to encourage creative thinking….
The Church of Ireland Liturgical Advisory Committee invites clergy, choir members, organists, musicians and anyone else interested to the launch of Singing Psalms. The book features Responsorial Psalms set to Simple Chant for Year B with music by Alison Cadden…
Captain Austin Ardill, aged 91, paid a visit to Holy Trinity, Woodburn, BB company on November 10. Captain Ardill, a parishioner at Holy Trinity, was awarded a Military Cross during the Second World War. He was taken prisoner of war…
A number of Irish clergy, including the Rev Robert Simpson, Ballywillan parish, travelled to Johannesburg to attend the launch of Growing the Church in the Province of Southern Africa. At the invitation of Archbishop Thabo, SOMA (Sharing of Ministry Abroad)…
The third in a series of training roadshows following up on the huge Energize celebration of youth was held in St Thomas’s Parish Church, Belfast, on November 12. Previous roadshows had taken place in Bushmills (Archdeaconry of Dalriada) and Antrim…
A group of young people at Holy Trinity, Woodburn, designed and produced a new mural which has been erected outside the church. This was a community arts project funded by the local council, and provided the opportunity for four of…
Around 60 members of Connor’s clergy attended a Quiet Day held in the beautifully renovated St Thomas’s Parish Church, Belfast, on Thursday, November 13. The speaker was Dom Mark-Ephrem M Nolan, OSB, Superior of the Benedictine Monastery of the Holy…
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