::CORRYMEELA: An evening of storytelling, featuring stories of lives that been shaped and changed through being involved with Corrymeela over the past 50 years, will take place in Belfast next week.
It will be held at the Agape Centre on Lisburn Road at 7pm on Monday September 14.
Admission is £10, with all funds going to support the work of Corrymeela.
::ONE MORE STEP: The 101st Irish National Christian Endeavour Convention will take place in Carrickfergus Methodist Church on:: Saturday September 19.
The guest speaker will be the Rev Mark Russell, minister of Leckpatrick Presbyterian Church, and the convention theme is 'One More Step'.
Rosemary McDaniel will also be installed as the movement's All Ireland President for the next year.
It will be second time the Ballygawley woman, a retired primary school teacher, has been CE president. Mrs McDaniel speaks of how she was saved at the age of 14, before going on to a lifelong involvement in children and young people's work.
Looking towards the year ahead, she quotes Philippians 4:13 - "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" - and says she "is looking forward to serving a second term, telling children and young people about the need of a Saviour and how to serve Him".
::MARRIED PRIESTS: The Association of Catholics in Ireland, a lay group pressing for reform, has backed the Bishop of Kilmore, Dr Leo O'Reilly, in his call for the Catholic Church in Ireland to investigate the possibility of ordaining married men to the priesthood.
Bishop O'Reilly said the appointment of female deacons should also be considered.
The ACI said married clergy would help address "the growing shortage of priests", which "needs to be addressed now as a matter of urgency to ensure access by the faithful to Eucharist in the years ahead".
"The move would be in keeping with the practice of the Eastern Rites Church where clerics can be married and eliminates the current anomaly whereby in England married Anglican clergy have been accepted into the Catholic Church as
ordained priests," the group said.
In a submission to next month's Vatican Synod on the Family, the ACI has argued that "married clergy would bring the warmth and richness of their lived experience to their pastoral ministry and be well placed to offer support to married couples and families in difficulties".
