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GROWTH IN PRAYER AND REFLECTIVE LIVING
(hosted by Drumalis via Zoom, commencing Mon, 16 September 2024)
This 20-session course via Zoom between September and March is based on the insights of Ignatian Spirituality.

Places are also available on the Zoom course, “Rooted in Love”, delivered over 10 Thursday evening sessions from Sept 2024 to May 2025. For further details on either course, please contact Drumalis during office hours
(Mon-Fri, 9 am – 5 pm) – 028 28276455/28272196 or email drumalis@btconnect.com

LISBURN CITY LIBRARY YARNSPINNERS WITH STEPHEN O?HARA
Lisburn City Library, Wednesday 18th September 2.30pm – 4.00pm.
Stephen O’Hara learned to tell stories in the classroom where he taught English, and then in Ireland’s only storytelling café, Café Revive in Cushendall. His stories bring the past of this place into the present, memorialising lost characters and making sense of superstitions, legends and truth.

Expect to laugh, to wonder and to wipe a tear as he tells through the past and into the present day.
Contact the Library to book your place.
Suggested donation £3.
Tel: 028 9266 9345. Email: lisburncity.library@librariesni.org.uk

THE PATHWAYS ADULT FAITH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR 2024/25 BEGINS 12 OCTOBER AT DRUMALIS.

The programme takes place one Saturday a month from 10am – 4 pm between October and June. All are welcome. Past participants may also be interested in the new programme on offer for this coming year.

In preparation for the SYNOD TAKING PLACE IN ROME IN OCTOBER, Sr Sheila Curran RSM will lead a day exploring the meaning and implications for being a synodal church on Saturday 7 September from 10am- 4 pm.
For further information or to register on either of above, please contact Drumalis during office hours
(Mon-Fri, 9 am – 5 pm) – 028 28276455/28272196 or email drumalis@btconnect.com

Please do not make any family arrangements for the Sacrament of Baptism without prior consultation with Parish O?ce regarding availability of dates. Thank you.

Course to give you maths skills and confidence needed for everyday life and help you get employed. Essential Skills Numeracy; free for those unemployed; level 1 & 2 qualifications; mentoring and C.V. preparation. Classes are small and informal. People 1st 44-44 Railway Street, Lisburn. Contact r.muphy@people-1st.co.uk. Tel: 07443079167

If you are over 18 and would like to try singing with us then call up and sing at 12pm Mass on Sunday 30th June. We will rehearse from 11am on the Sunday. No pressure. No commitment. Just sing!

If you would like to join the choir thereafter, for the return in September, please give your name to the parish office or come and sing with us at our first rehearsal on Wednesday 28th August.

Rehearsals take place every Wednesday 7.15-8.30pm in the church.

St Patrick’s Senior Choir will break for the summer holidays soon. Their last Mass of this academic year will take place on Sunday 30th June at 12 noon. The choir will return for rehearsal on Wednesday 28th August.

Congratulations and welcome to our new Baptism Team.

The team has undertaken a period of training and refflection within the Diocese on the Sacrament of Baptism and have also received instruction from Fr Eamon.

The team members are: Geraldine Clenaghan, Diane Rutledge, Katherine McLaughlin, Cliodhna Craig, Fedeilme McKenna, Mary & Sean O’Brien and Maria McDonald.

Two members of our Baptism Team will commence Baptism Preparation Classes this Thursday evening to families who have recently requested Baptism in the Parish. They will speak to the parents and godparents about the importance of the Sacrament of Baptism, the responsibilities and commitment in the ongoing faith development of the child and the role of godparents. The rites and symbols of Baptism will also be explained.
Classes will take place on a monthly basis.

Families will be contacted a few weeks before the Baptism date.

Meeting at 7pm in Parochial House on Monday 24th June 2024

We are hoping to reach out locally to people who have a genuine interest in reducing loneliness & isolation by becoming an Age NI Shared Lives carer and being matched with an older person in their local community to o?er social support.
Please also find attached a video link for more information https://youtu.be/pTqAKAwiJLQ (2 mins duration)

Claire McCleary, Social worker
Age NI Shared Lives Service
3 Lower Crescent
Belfast BT7 1NR
O?ce: 02890 245729
Mob: 07767161190
Email: claire.mccleary@ageni.org
Working days: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday