Down and Dromore Ministry of Healing service, Bishop’s insight on Clogher diocese, RB Unit Trust Valuations, Dromantine Inter-Church Gathering.
Down and Dromore Ministry of Healing service
Down and Dromore Ministry of Healing Committee has organised a Service of Thanksgiving for Healing at Belvoir Parish Church on Tuesday 10 May 2011 at 8.00pm.
Bishop Harold Miller is the speaker.
Belvoir Parish church is easily accessible from all of south and east Belfast and is visible from Belfast’s outer ring that runs between Forestside Shopping Centre and Milltown. It is almost opposite the large Tesco store.
Bishop’s insight on Clogher
In his final sermon as Bishop of Clogher, Rt Rev Michael Jckson, himself a son of the diocese, offered this insight:
The diocese of Clogher, encompassing as it does almost all of two counties and parts of five more, is uniquely placed in contemporary Ireland to live out the really important conviction that what unites is more important than what divides. Traditions are the focal point of identity. Traditions shape us more as who we are yet to be, as the First Epistle of John reminds us, even than who we have already become. Traditions, therefore, must not get stuck! Traditions must always take us into a future which we have not been able to discover on our own. And so, traditions are powerful and precious, they are forceful and freshly lived in each and every generation. And something else, in the diocese of Clogher we have the Border running like a river through us, challenging us not to be hemmed in or boxed out by straight lines, with their all-too-tidy definition of who we are and of who other people are – and, therefore, of who we can-not be and who they can-not be. Borders need not bring exclusion. They can heighten definition without dismantling belonging.
They can and ought to be thresholds of experience – places and patterns of living in which we can march together rather than walk apart. To turn your back on borderlands and on opportunities and experiences which they provide would not be the best use of the possibilities which life in all its fullness offers us – and will continue to offer us into the future. Clogher is and always has had pivotal opportunities for good in such transformation, even if the decisions which affect us most nearly are often made elsewhere and on our behalf. We need urgently to seize these opportunities.
More at:
http://www.ireland.anglican.org/index.php?do=news&newsid=3564
On-line RB General Unit Trust Valuations Calculator
Q1 2011 information added – Posted on 12/04/2011 Unit prices for both RB General Unit Trust (RoI) and the RB General Unit Trust (NI) have been verified and added for Quarter 1, 2011
www.ireland.anglican.org/valuations.
Dromantine Inter-Church Gathering, 7th May
Bishop Harold Miller and Revd Ruth Patterson, Director of Restoration Ministries, will be the speakers at the Dromantine Inter-Church Gathering on 7th May. The theme for the day will be ‘Bearers of Hope as we journey together’ and the programme runs from 1.30 to 5.30pm.
The Dromantine Retreat and Conference Centre is located 5 miles north of Newry. Visit their http://www.dromantineconference.com/ for directions. To register your interest, please telephone 028 (048 from ROI) 30821964 or email admin@dromantineconference.com.