Recalling August 2 - 4
Earlier this month, the CMSI (Church Missionary Society Ireland) family lost one of its much–loved elders, with the passing of Rev Canon Raymond Smith, who previously served as General Secretary of the society.
Rev Dr Sam Wells, Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and inspirational founder of the HeartEdge movement, will deliver the 2019 Chalmers Lectures this autumn. Entitled ‘A Future that’s Bigger than the Past’, the six lectures will focus on the theology and methods of HeartEdge as a vision for renewal in the Church.
“Moneylenders are meeting a need for access to credit but often at a cost which people who are better off and who have other options would baulk at.”
It’s not often that an official statement from the Washington National Cathedral – the most famous icon of The Episcopal Church, and site of many state funerals and inaugural prayer services – contains words like “savage,” “dangerous,” “violent” and “dehumanizing.”
Church Army worker Emma Rodrigues with the Anglican Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achnonry, Patrick Rooke; the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killala, John Flemming; and the Church Army’s Issac Hanna at the launch of the Big Blue Bus in Ballina.
Church Army has three mission centres in Ireland
Ardmore, Co. Waterford is the most easterly parish in the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. It is well known as a beautiful seaside resort. It is the site of the monastery founded by St. Declan (an older contemporary of St. Patrick) in the late fifth century.
“Holy, Holy, Holy!” has been chosen in a March Madness-like tournament as “the greatest hymn of all time.”
A school in Oxfordshire is being taken to court after being accused of hosting Christian assemblies which include "harmful and divisive messages".
August 1, 1714: The "Schism Bill," which was intended to bolster Anglicanism in England, dies with its chief supporter, Queen Anne. For years, Dissenters (also known as “Non-conformists”) regarded the date as a day of deliverance, the "Protestant Passover.”
August 1, 1779: Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and a devout Episcopalian who helped establish the American Sunday School Union, is born.
August 1, 1834: The first Protestant missionary to China, Robert Morrison, dies at age 52. The Englishman's translation of the Bible, completed in 1823, filled 23 volumes.
August 1, 1897: Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Militantis Ecclesiae, which describes Protestantism as the "Lutheran rebellion, whose evil virus goes wandering about in almost all nations.
