https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-patricks-and-st-brigids-church-ballycastle/

WEBCAM VIEWING

The parish has installed a webcam in the church to broadcast Mass over the internet. This service will be beneficial for the parishioners abroad and for the sick and elderly at home. The service can be accessed on www.mcnmedia.tv and NOW can be accessed through the parish website on CLICKING THE HYPERLINK ABOVE. Please also note a set top box is needed for those parishioners who wish to view the services on their televisions; however internet is still required. The webcam can be viewed on laptop, PC, smart phone, kindle etc. For further information on the above please contact Seamus McNichol, MCN Media on 07732329066

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Where is it?

Window, in the wall at the top of the stairs going down to the crypt,

acknowledging the role the Sisters of the Cross and Passion played in the parish 

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Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2019

Full board in hotel: 7 nights (9-16 July) for £725 or 5 nights (10-15 July) for £650.

Full board for sick or infirm pilgrims with medical and nursing care

in Accueil Notre-Dame: 5 nights (10-15 July) for £550.

Youth team: (7-16 July) £590.

All flights from Belfast Int’l Airport. Applications forms now available from the parish office or sacristy. For further info contact the Pilgrimage Office on (028) 90770162 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Are You Making Wedding Plans

Prepare for your future married life at a Catholic Engaged Encounter Course. 24 March

in Our Lady and St. Patrick’s Parish Centre, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim.

For details/bookings. marriageencounter.ie or 27638512

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  Dates for the Diary

Confirmation, Friday 24th May 2019

First Holy Communion, Saturday 1st June 2019

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Recently Deceased

Gerry McGowan (Rathlin Road),

Isabel Connor (Altananam Park),

Raymond Kevin Morgan (Broombeg:formerly Coleraine),

Marie Hill (Atlantic Avenue),

Rory McGee (Belfast)

Bethany Bereavement Support Group

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures - have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”  Henri Nouwen, (1932-96) Catholic Priest & Author.

Bethany Bereavement Support Group is a voluntary parish based ministry dedicated to supporting those who have been bereaved and are grieving. The group derives its name from Bethany, the biblical home-place of siblings Martha, Mary and Lazarus, and recalls the visit of Jesus to the sisters on the death of their brother. As of January 2019 there are thirty nine parishes in the Diocese with Bethany Teams. Bethany volunteers provide a compassionate, non-judgemental and fully confidential support service to those who are experiencing the loss of another, regardless of faith, background or nationality. Our specially trained volunteers are able to hold a safe and trusted space for anyone needing either to talk or simply to be in the presence of someone who will respect their own unique experience of grief. Grief left unattended can be detrimental in the short and long term to our mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. At Bethany, we can help in the process of tackling or exploring the difficulties that grief often presents, and its accompanying feelings, which may be anger, loss, regret, fear, shame, emptiness or uncertainty. While the services offered by Bethany Bereavement Support vary somewhat from parish to parish, The Ramoan, Ballintoy and Ballinlea Parish Bethany Support Group provides listening support (NOT COUNSELLING) to the bereaved, telephone support to the bereaved and home visits (usually about six weeks after time of death) to the bereaved. Our parish group needs more members and the next Bethany Bereavement Training Course will commence on Thursday 14th March. To register interest in the next training please contact the Bethany Diocesan Co-ordinator Claire Dowds (07557882183 or E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), the Parish Office (20762223: Mon-Fri 9am-2pm) or the parish Bethany Group on 07519471481.

 Bethany Bereavement Support Group

Members of the group are available to listen or just be there for anyone who is feeling lonely or lost following the death of a loved one. 

A member of the Ballycastle Bethany Group may be contacted confidentially onn the following phone number: 07519471481