Dear parishioners and friends,   While it was good to see a number of you on screen last Sunday morning for our live service on Zoom, this weekend we resume the usual pattern of putting up a recorded service on the Parish YouTube Channel. It will be available from this evening at the usual link which is below:   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDmEQt2VvcJI9ErW29vxPA/videos Sunday 18th April (Service of the Word) I also [...]

        Dear parishioners and friends,   For a change tomorrow, there will not be a recorded service on our Parish YouTube Channel. Instead our service will be live on Zoom at 11.00am sharp. It will be a short Service of the Word and I will share the liturgy on screen with you when we start. I hope as many of you as possible will join me [...]

        Dear parishioners and friends,   Today is Maundy Thursday, the day in the church calendar when we remember the Last Supper Jesus shared with his disciples. As always it is marked with a service of Holy Communion. At the end the Stripping of the Altar is done and the church is made ready for Good Friday, leaving it in darkness. Unfortunately again this year we cannot be [...]

Dear parishioners and friends,   Tomorrow we begin in our commemoration of the dramatic events of Holy Week. Our service of Holy Communion for Palm Sunday involves a dramatised reading of the Passion Gospel according to Mark. I would like to thank all those who recorded themselves in their own homes and were involved in this reading. The service will be put up on our Parish YouTube Channel this evening [...]

  Five Psalms   Five weeks   Finding Hope in the Psalms   I don't know about you but for me right now life is hard, keeping within my 5km, not visiting people, worrying about Covid-19, and all that on top of what we normally deal with in life. In fact, life could seem hopeless right now. I began to reflect on where does our hope actually comes from. [...]

Dear parishioners and friends,   It is hard to believe that our churches have been closed for public worship for three full months. The last services were held on Christmas Day. This Sunday we begin the most important week in the year - Holy Week. It starts on Palm Sunday when we usually distribute Palm Crosses at our services. Tomorrow (Saturday 27th) our 4 churches (St Luke's Douglas, St [...]

Dear parishioners and friends,   Many of you I know enjoy music and reading. In our Biblical Byways Lent Course this week, (text attached) we bring together both these interests, as we look at some of the psalms. In my introduction I remind you that  'the Psalms are among the oldest poems in the world... In life, some of the most important things we want to say remain just a [...]

Please click on the link to view the Pastoral Letter from Bishop Paul Colton Church of Ireland - letter from the Bishop March 2021