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What is a Charism? Who has them? What are my Charisms?

If this is something that interests you, consider enrolling in the Seminar that will take place in the Malone Lodge Hotel, Belfast on Friday & Saturday 23^rd and 24th October. It will be facilitated by teams from the dioceses of Armagh, Down & Conor, Dromore, and the SMA.

Friday 23rd Oct. 7pm – 9.30pm and Saturday 24th Oct. 9.30am – 4.30pm

For more information or to book contact the Office of Pastoral Renewal and Family Ministry at 00353429336649.

C&G poster October 2015

C&G Booking Form October 2015

Armagh Vocations Team to host three Special Evenings

Armagh Diocesan Vocations Commission are presenting three more evenings of “Great People, Great Stories, Come and Listen” during the Autumn.

Our third evening will take place in the Medical Missionaries’ Hall, Drogheda on Thursday 5^th November at 8pm. Fr Michael Cusack and Sr Carmel Flynn will share their testimonies.  Fr Michael, a native of Carrickmacross, was ordained a priest in 1990. He has served in Brazil as well as giving parish Missions and retreats both here in Ireland and abroad. For the past number of years he has served as the Rector of St Joseph’s Monastery Dundalk.                                                                   Sr Carmel, a native of Tipperary is a Sister of the Sacred Heart and she’s a valued member of the Armagh Diocesan Vocations Commission. She has worked for many years in different parts of Africa. She has worked with refugees and she organises trips to Africa for students from Sacred Heart Schools.  She’s actively involved in Vocations Promotion work with her Congregation.

As a direct response to the refugee crisis the charity ‘Another Pair of Hands’ has planned a night of song and prayer “Harmonies of Hope” on Wednesday 11^th November in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh at 7.30 pm.  We would be delighted if you could display the attached poster in your church and include the information in your parish bulletin this week to help promote a very worthy cause.  For tickets and  further information please contact Bosco McShane 079 009 556 55 / 079 009 885 62.

Jeff Cavins is coming to Drogheda.

What:              “The Joy of the Bible”

When:             Wednesday 18^th November at 7:30 P.M.

Where:           The Main Theatre in The Barbican Centre, William Street, Drogheda.

Admission:     FREE – donations may be made on the night to help defray expenses.

Jeff Cavins is the creator of the popular Great Adventure Bible Study Programme which has been used by more that five thousand parishes in the United States, Ireland, and other countries. He is a founding host of EWTN’s weekly programme Life on the Rock, author of several books, co-editor of the Amazing Grace Series and of Walking with God, which gives an overview of the Bible.

Many from Armagh diocese had the opportunity to experience his Bible Timeline series as Bible in a Day in Dromantine earlier this year, and parishioners in the Dungannon, Dundalk and Drogheda areas have since gathered to study the Timeline series over four weeks as Bible in a Month.

Jeff is coming to Ireland for one week only, to address gatherings in Maynooth (Monday 16^th) and Belfast (Saturday 21^st), and we are delighted to have him with us in Drogheda on Wednesday 18^th for what promises to be an exciting presentation titled The Joy of the Bible. We highly recommend this evening to anyone curious about the Bible, and interested in learning more. It promises to be of great benefit to Bible Study Groups, to Lay Ministers of the Word, to members of Lectio Divina prayer groups, etc., but Jeff’s easy style is accessible to all, and all are most welcome.

This is a once-off opportunity to witness a presentation by Jeff Cavins in person in Drogheda. There is no admission charge, but donations may be made on the evening, if desired, to help defray expenses.

Further information available from:

The Office of Pastoral Renewal & Family Ministry

Armagh Diocesan Pastoral Centre, The Magnet, The Demesne, Dundalk, Co. Louth.

Contact: Patrick Logue     042 9336649     087 1163208     [email protected]

Jeff Cavins

CATHEDRALS COMBINE TO SPONSOR LECTURE

On Tuesday 24^th November, the Armagh Cathedrals Partnership will host a lecture by Dr Johnston McMaster, “Still up for the Challenge? Reconciliation in a Crisis Society.”  The lecture will begin at 8.00 p.m. in the Synod Hall of St Patrick’s Cathedral, off Cathedral Road.

Dr McMaster writes, “Seventeen years on from the hope-filled Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is still a long way from being a reconciled society.  Things have changed for the better, but we remain a society limping from one crisis to another.  There is a political inability to deal with the past and with sectarianism, both failures preventing the future.  There is no vision of a common good.  Faith communities are an integral part of these struggles and indeed failures.”

If people of faith are still up for the challenge of reconciliation, he continues, “It means re-imagining and re-thinking reconciliation as well as renewing our vision and engagement.  In the context of a crisis society, this lecture will explore the centrality of social justice to the Judeo-Christian vision of reconciliation.”  It will be followed by an opportunity for discussion.

A minister of the Methodist Church in Ireland, Dr McMaster is a Senior Research Writer and Educator with the Ethical and Shared Remembering Project, 1912-1922, through the Junction, Derry Londonderry.  For sixteen years he was Director of the Education for Reconciliation Programme of the Irish School of Ecumenics in Northern Ireland and Border Counties.  He remains as an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin.

Looking forward to the event, Fr Peter McAnenly, said, “I look forward to hearing Johnston speak again. He has done extensive work on promoting reconciliation and peace building over the years. He reminds us that the work of reconciliation is a relationship-centric process and there must be trust built between sides for reconciliation to occur.”

Dean Gregory Dunstan said, “From a profoundly Christian perspective, Dr McMaster offers a penetrating diagnosis of our inability to recognize ‘the things of our peace’.  We expect a challenging evening.”

For further information, please contact Armagh Parish Office, Tel. 028 3752 2813 or Armagh Public Library, Tel. 028 3752 3142

Armagh Cathedrals Partnership will hold a lecture by Dr. Johnston McMaster in the Synod Hall, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh on Tuesday 24th November.  More information in the attached Press Release.

Johnston McMaster – Synod Hall

The Senior Girls’ Choir from St. Paul’s High School, Bessbrook will perform Faure’s Requiem in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh on Wednesday 25th November at 7.00pm.