IRISH NEWS BRIEFS

ANNUAL IRISH COLLEGE OF PREACHERS

The Annual Conference of the Irish College of Preachers' will be held in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Dublin from 8 to 10 September.

The conference which is residential is designed to encourage preaching and help clergy and lay people communicate biblical truths

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The keynote speaker this year will be the Revd Ian Coffey, Director of Training at Moorlands College, Christchurch, New Zealand. His most recent book Shock and Awe - Tasting God's outragious grace was published last September by the Bible reading fellowship.

LEGAL TERM SERVICE - BELFAST

The now annual Inter-Church service marking the beginning of the Legal Term will be held in St Peter’s Cathedral on Sunday 12th September at 3.30pm.

ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF NOVELIST ELIZABETH BOWEN

The annual Commemoration will be held in St Colman's Church, Farahy (nr Mitchelstown) on Sunday, Sep 12, 2010 3:30pm. The speaker this year is Senator Joe O'Toole. As usual the service will take the form of Evening Prayer according to the old form and will be conducted by Very Rev R.B. MacCarthy, Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, accompanied by Canon Patrick Twomey PP, Kildorrery. A warm welcome is extended to all who would like to attend

PRAYER FOR REVIVAL - BELFAST CATHEDRAL

There will be a special service on Monday, 13th September 2010 at 8.00 pm to pray for the revival of the Faith in this land.  This is part of a programme of seven years prayer for revival, which began in June, 2009 and is organised by Interdenominational Divine Healing Ministries.  In recent years there has been quite a drift away from the Faith in this country.  This prayer initiative is geared towards bringing faith alive again. 

Brother David Jardine, a Canon of the Cathedral, who is director of Divine Healing Ministries and one of the organisers, says ‘I have been moved by the books of a Bishop from Uganda, Festo Kivingere, who looking at his country and continent in the mid 1980’s and all the turmoil going on said that it is Christ’s revolutionary love that Uganda and Africa desperately need to bring radically new relationships between clans, tribes, nations, races, political parties, and ideologies.  I believe that that is what we need in this country as well; that it is only a revival of our Christian faith and love that will provide the answer to our social, political and spiritual problems. ’At this time there are about four hundred people in this initiative praying daily for revival.  The service on 13 September is an opportunity for everyone to come together.Worship will be led by the Holy Family Prayer Group from Drogheda.  

Brother David will preach the sermon on the theme ‘What is Revival?’You will be very welcome to join in this service. 

Email: divinehealing@live.co.uk 

Web address: www.divinehealingministries.wordpress.com

JOHN RUTTER CHORAL & ORCHESTRAL CONCERT

A large choir is being amassed from choral groups in Northern Ireland and will perform Rutter’s Magnificat in the second half of a concert in the Waterfront Hall on Saturday 25th September at 7.30pm. Proceeds are for Down Cathedral restoration fund.

Further details: matters@mm4music.co.uk