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Our monthly ‘Soup-er Saturday’ lunches continue this week. Join us from 12noon on Saturday 11th January in the parish hall for soup, bread and chat. There is no charge, although you may make a voluntary donation to our chosen charity Christian Aid if you so wish. Please feel free to invite a relation, friend orContinue reading “SOUPer Saturday @St Molua’s”

Our regular mid-week Holy Communion services resume after the Christmas / New Year break at 10.30am on Wednesday 8 January in the Side Chapel. This short spoken service follows the traditional ‘Holy Communion One‘ order from the Book of Common Prayer. All are welcome to join us

The St Molua’s Ladies Guild are delighted to welcome a representative from Air Ambulance NI to speak at their meeting on Thursday 9 January at 2.30pm in the Parish Hall. Air Ambulance NI (AANI), is a charity in Northern Ireland which works in partnership with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), to provide the HelicopterContinue reading “AANI @St Molua’s”

Our friends at St Mark’s Church, Dundela are offering tours of the church at 10.30am on the first Tuesday of each month enabling you to uncover the rich history of St Mark’s and its connection to the magical world of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia. To find out more and to book, click on the link or imageContinue reading “@St Mark’s”

All are invited to join us for our first service of Holy Communion of 2025 at 10.30am this Sunday 5 January when the Very Reverend Henry Hull returns as our guest preacher and celebrant. Children will leave the service at an announced point to join our Sunday Kids’ Club JAM in the parish hall. ForContinue reading “This Sunday”

Bishop David introduces ‘Speak Jesus’, an initiative to connect and reconnect every home in the Diocese of Down and Dromore with a local parish church so that we can speak Jesus into every life. In 2025 we want to declare hope and peace in God’s presence over every community in the diocese.

Some parishioners at St Molua’s have been using the Lectio 365 app as an aid to daily prayer. The start of a new year is an excellent time to consider trying it out for yourself. See the link below for more information. https://www.24-7prayer.com/resource/lectio-365/ Other helpful Bible reading, prayer apps and resources can be found onContinue reading “Lectio 365”

Bishop David writes: Every so often, Christian songwriters or hymnwriters pen a powerful song that articulates what the Church needs to be saying to the world in that hour.  I believe that the song ‘I Speak Jesus’, is one of these and a song for our diocese in 2025. Based on biblical truths, it captures howContinue reading “A song for the year ahead”

‘For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.’ Jeremiah 29:11 The dawn of a new year gives us cause to reflect on the past twelve months and to look forward, with a little trepidation andContinue reading “Church Leaders’ New Year Message”

As we prepare to enter a new year, Bishop David encourages us to be disciples of Jesus who read the Bible every day. “The Bible is God’s very word to us and reading it for ourselves will help us to hear him and grow in our faith. We will also discover life from God’s perspective.”Continue reading “Reading the Bible”

All are invited to join Matthew Gault and the rest of our friends from Tullycarnet Church Plant for their Carol Service on Sunday 22nd December at 7.00pm in St Molua’s Church Hall. Everybody welcome

Bishop David reflects on the incarnation (John 1:14) in his message for Christmas 2024. He is speaking from St Patrick’s Ballymacarrett, which is to become a reinvigorated worshipping community on the lower Newtownards Road, Belfast.

A reminder to join us for our annual service of Nine Lessons and Carols by candlelight at 7.30pm tonight, Wednesday 18 December, in the church when we will be led by the St Molua’s and Stormont Community Choirs followed by light refreshments. Everyone welcome.

A message for Christmas from the Archbishops of Armagh: “… and the Light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it”. John 1:5  Someone once said that ninety percent of life is “just turning up”, and probably ninety percent of most of our lives is indeed spent in a kind of routine.Continue reading “A message for Christmas”

Black Santa is back on the steps of Belfast Cathedral in the run-up to Christmas as the 48th charity sit-out got underway this morning, 16 December. The Dean of Belfast was joined on his first ‘shift’ by Bishop David and Bishop Trevor Williams. The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Micky Murray, also dropped by withContinue reading “Black Santa Charity sit-out”