NEWS BRIEFS

Connor’s first Ordained Local Ministers

The ordination of the first three people to serve in the Ordained Local Ministry in Connor Diocese took place at Lisburn Cathedral on Sunday September 22.

Photo above – front, from left: OLMs Louise Bowes, Adrian Bell and Anne Locke. Back, from left: The Rev Canon William Taggart, Registrar; the Rev Clifford Skillen, Bishop’s Chaplain; the Ven George Davison, Bishop of Connor’s Commissary; the Rt Rev Patrick Rooke, Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry; the Very Rev Sam Wright, Dean of Connor; the Rev Canon Kevin Graham, Diocesan Director of Ordinands, and the Ven Paul Dundas, Archdeacon of Dalriada.

Adrian Bell, Louise Bowes and Anne Locke were ordained by The Rt Rev Patrick Rooke, Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry, as the Bishop of Connor is on sick leave. Adrian was ordained for the Parishes of St Andrew, Glencairn and Whiterock, Belfast; Louise for Mossley Parish; and Anne for Whitehouse and St Ninian, Belfast.

The preacher at the service was the Rev Canon Kevin Graham, Diocesan Director of Ordinands.

Harvest weekend at St Mark’s, Aghadrumsee

Thanks was expressed to all who played their part. The ladies who decorated the church so well, Marina, Leah and Sarah who played for on Friday evening and the Choir who sang on both Friday night and Sunday Morning, the children from Sunday School who sang on Sunday and to the visiting preachers Revd Elizabeth Cairns Rector at Mullavilly Parish and Revd Stephen McElhinney director of South American Mission Society Ireland.

Archbishop of Armagh at Padre Pio Triduum in Ennis

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh was welcomed to the Friary in Ennis in Killaloe Diocese for night two of the Padre Pio Triduum

Institution at Derriaghy

The Rev Aaron McAlister will be instituted Rector of the Parish of Derriaghy at a service in Christ Church, Derriaghy, starting at 8pm on Thursday September 26.

C of I statement on Brexit

The Standing Committee of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland, has issued its opinion regarding the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The Statement released yesterday reads –

“The Standing Committee meeting on 17th September 2019 in Church of Ireland House, Dublin, noted the decision of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to leave the European Union on a date determined but yet to be finalised.

“Mindful of the fact that members of the Church of Ireland live peaceably and contribute positively to civic, cultural and economic life in two distinct political jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, the Standing Committee urges the Government of Ireland, Her Majesty’s Government, and the member states of the European Union, to do everything in their power to ensure the continuity of peace, stability and economic security for those on the island of Ireland affected by Brexit, and to uphold such international treaties and agreements as are in place in order to secure the above outcome.

“The Church of Ireland prays regularly in public worship for those in civic leadership and we continue to assure our leaders of our ongoing prayer for them in these challenging times.”

Food for thought

With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and testing, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.

(New Zealand Prayerbook)