Bookshop’s decade celebration service; Us in Ireland Celebrate New Name and New Home; Arrow Leadership Programme; Restrictive Irish abortion law ‘could be rejected by Europe’; Irish secularization began long before Vatican II, says Archbishop Martin
Bookshop’s decade celebration service
A special service to celebrate 10 years of The Good Book Shop will be held on Sunday 12th May at 3:30pm in St Anne’s Cathedral Belfast.
The guest preacher will be Rt Rev Patrick Rooke, Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achorny.
Tea and Coffee will be served following the service
Us in Ireland Celebrate New Name and New Home
Us. in Ireland (formerly USPG) are celebrating their new name and also their new home in Egan House with the Church’s Ministry of Healing.
On 29/5/2013 there will be a Service of Holy Communion in St Michan’s Church, Church Street, Dublin 7, at 7.30 pm followed by a reception. The Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke, will preside. The Bishop of Swaziland, the Rt Revd Ellinah Wamukoya, will preach. Clergy are invited to robe (red stole).
Arrow Leadership Programme
As the current Arrow Leadership Programme finishes with the graduation ceremony at Queen’s on 31 May, applications are welcomed for programme 4.
All the required information, about dates, costs, venue, content, can be found on the website www.arrowleadership.ie.
You may also be interested in attending an information seminar:
Mon 29 April 11.00 am at Edgehill College, 9 Lennoxvale, Belfast BT9 5BY
You may also contact:
Revd John Alderdice, Director, Arrow Ireland. Email: director@arrowleadership.ie
Restrictive Irish abortion law ‘could be rejected by Europe’
The Journal – The Irish Council for Civil Liberties says Ireland must provide “accessible procedures” to figure out if abortion is legal.
http://www.thejournal.ie/abortion-ireland-six-doctors-echr-884683-Apr2013/
Irish secularization began long before Vatican II, says Dublin’s archbishop
Catholic Culture – “The Catholic Church in Ireland had for far too long felt that it was safely ensconced in a ‘Catholic country,’” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin told a New York audience in an April 24 lecture. “The Church had become conformist and controlling …
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17683