Author: Lauren Harte

The choir this afternoon was made up of students from many schools across Belfast, from BRA, MCB, St Malachy’s and Wallace High. Thirty students started a new programme of monthly Evensongs, in which students will learn the repertoire that they might come across as university choral scholars. The sound was very strong and solid, for many it was the first evensong they’d encountered. Next month, October 23rd sees the second such evensong, where the students will sing Morley, Stanford in Bb and Beati quorum via, also by Stanford.

St George’s is holding a mission from next Saturday, September 10th until Sunday September 18th as part of the church’s 200^th anniversary.

The mission will be led by a team from the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield, Yorkshire. The team is made up of Fr John Gribben CR and five theological students, Sebastian Hamilton, Alex Hobbs, Philip Kennedy, Steffan Mathias and Waldermar Nion.

Fr John is originally from Willowfield in east Belfast and was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1975. Since 1979 he has been a member of the Anglican monastic order, the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield.

The week will take the form of a teaching mission on the theme Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever, with morning sessions at 10.30am Monday-Saturday (except Wednesday 14^th when the session will be at 11am) and evening mission services Sunday–Friday at 7.30pm, followed by refreshments.

There will be children’s events on the Saturday afternoon, September 17, from 2-4pm.

The team will be commissioned by Archbishop Alan Harper, former Archbishop of Armagh and a former Bishop of Connor, at 11am on Sunday September 11.

The rector of St George’s, the Rev Brian Stewart, said: “Everyone is most warmly welcome to the events of Mission 2016 and we would ask you to pray for is success and particularly for Fr John, Alex, Philip, Steffan, Sebastian and Waldermar.”

For further information contact stgeorgesoffice@btconnect.com or ring 028 9023 1275.

Former parishioner and Servers Guild member Iain Jamieson was instituted as Rector of the Drogheda, Ardee and Kilsaran Unions on Thursday, September 1st.

He was previously Curate assistant of Ballymena (Kilconriola) and Ballyclug in the Diocese of Connor.

Some members of St George’s attended to support Iain and our own Rector, Brian Stewart preached the sermon. We pray for Iain as he enters this new phase in his ministry.