January 2021 Dear Fellow MembersA very belated happy and peaceful New Year to you all. Has a new year ever been as eagerly anticipated as 2021? Many of us would like to draw a line under 2020 and move on with our lives, hoping everything will now be so much better. There have been much…
15th Dec. 2020, Dear Diocesan Indoor Member Contact, The Christmas season has arrived really early this year. People have had their Christmas tree and festive lights up for weeks. The letters from our Worldwide President and All Ireland President arrived in very good time for you to distribute in your dioceses. We have all missed…
Dear Fellow MembersThe photograph above from our recent competition, taken in Ballycastle, should be an inspiration to all of us. Our theme for 2020 has been Building Hope and Confidence. Hope is expectation and desire. It is trusting that something will be fulfilled.The Psalmist wrote these words, ‘I will find my rest in God alone….
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In the lead up to the 16 Days of Activism, there will be a BBC Spotlight program this evening at 10.45 pm highlighting the increasing issue of domestic violence, especially during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Further information is available on the BBC news page here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-54879863?fbclid=IwAR3ni8eJtVP5GEZRblKaND9y1knSjSLOLzp_nioGhaMa5haRmsItdvVgYZM If you miss the programme tonight then please follow the…
Our final budding Wordsworth is Valerie Reilly, Belfast Cathedral MU, with her winning poem entitled ‘DISLOCATION‘. Many congratulations to all those who took part and especially to Valerie, Moira and Margaret. DISLOCATION I walk unyielding pavements by the roads past nature clipped, pruned, mown, confined by hedges, fences, walls and wire past soaring trees with…
Building Hope and Confidence The Trustees and Executive members of Connor MU were delighted to be able to worship together again in person, despite all the advantages that virtual meetings via zoom have brought in recent months. Although observing social distancing we all enjoyed joining in the first hymn, Praise my soul the King of…
The annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. The campaign runs every year from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day. Timetable of Mothers’ Union 16 Days Events 16 Days of Activism…
Our next budding Wordsworth is Moira Thom, Christ Church Lisburn MU, with her Highly Commended poem entitled: ZOOMING THROUGH COVID The answer to Covid, it came to our aid – When life as we knew it began to fade. Locked down in our homes as if in a tomb It flew to our rescue, our…
