July August 2024 Gazette

Our Summer issue is out now and full of great news and features from across the island.

Karen Bushby reports on the 120th Anniversary of Belfast Cathedral, and the special services that were held to mark the 120 years since the cathedral’s consecration.

We hear from Lynn Glanville who reports on the conference organised by the Church of Ireland Interfaith Working Group and Places of Sanctuary, to explore how we can counter hate and respond with humanity.

Sundays today may bear little resemblance to those experienced by many Gazette readers in their youth, says John Deane O’Keeffe, but maybe we need to realise that every day can be the Sabbath.

To many throughout Ireland, leprosy is a thing of the past, with no relevence to our missional calling today. But this is simply not the case. Leprosy destroys the lives of thousands of people each year, and in this issue we read about 150 years of the Leprosy Mission.

We also have all the usual features like Mother’s Union, Liturgical Notes, Clergy News and our Food and Gardening Pages.

All this and much more in your Summer Gazette.