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Clifton Boys’ Home: Supplies Drive

With work on the outer structure at an advanced stage, the focus is now being given to the installation of the ceiling, floor and bathroom tiles, electrical and plumbing fixtures, sanitary conveniences, cupboards and other facilities.Chairman of the Home and Rebuilding Committee, The Rev. Canon Hartley Perrin, is appealing for public assistance to close the…

Receiving Communion in one Kind

Communion and the Coronavirus-COVID 19 Pandemic. Background: Recently, against the background of the Novel Coronavirus, COVID19, I posted (in the Diocesan WhatsApp group) some thoughts in response to the concerns articulated by sections of the Church’s membership, arising out of the Archbishop Gregory’s Pastoral letter which called the clergy to administer communion in one kind…

Think on These Things – COVID-19 March 2020

Good afternoon. There has never been anything of the likes of this coronavirus (COVID-19) which the entire global community now has to confront. So, here we are in Jamaica facing the worse threat to the life of our people and our economy which we have ever had to confront. Yes, we have faced hurricanes and…

SMTP sends Heartfelt Condolences

The Division of Training acknowledges with gratitude and a deep sense of loss, the life and work of the Rt. Revd. and honorable Dr. Alfred C. Reid, retired Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, who was a pioneering director, tutor and ardent supporter of the Diocesan Supplementary Ministry Training Program (SMTP). Bishop Reid’s gift of superior knowledge of and conversance with…

Devotions in schools

Standing together as a school family, usually on a Monday morning has been part of the Jamaican landscape for over a century. General Assembly of which devotions are a part of the agenda for that event, is designed to bring the school community together and make them become aware of the values that inform us…

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Doctor of Ministry for Canon “Grace” The Rev. Canon Georgia “Grace” Jervis has been conferred with the Doctor of Ministry Degree in Educational Leadership (D.Min) from the Virginia Theological Seminary, in the USA. The Degree was presented at the Seminary’s 196th Commencement Ceremony held in its Immanuel Chapel on Thursday, May 16.    The doctoral…

deCarteret College – Fund Raising Project

deCarteret College will be 100 years in 2019, but the celebration begins now!  JACOB’S LADDER FUNDRAISING PROJECT For many of us, especially those who were boarders from the 1960s onward, traversing the seemingly endless Jacob’s Ladder daily was an experience we will never forget. For others, it was an alternate albeit taxing route to the…

What is Chrism Mass?

  The Chrism Mass is a Service held annually on Maundy Thursday. In our Book of Common Prayer (CPWI page 417) it is entitled ‘A Liturgy for the Renewal of Vows and the Blessing of oils’. The Service derives its name from the oil of Chrism, one of three oils blessed by the Bishop.  It…

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

    The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – IDEVAW – will be November 25.    This year the Brotherhood of St. Andrew & the Mothers’ Union have been invited to show public support for women and girls in the march against violence.  Persons from various arms of civil society will meet at 1:00…