Mass can also be watched on the inter-

net as it is streamed online. The web

address you will need is:

www.saintvincentdepaulligoniel.com

and click on “Parish webcam”.

My Contact details are:

Address: 169 Ligoniel Road, Belfast,

BT14 8DP

Mobile: 07910833699—which you

can text

E-Mail: stvdep@btinternet.com

We also have a Facebook page, so why

not add us.

You will find us by searching

“stjoesphscentrebelfast”

I look forward to seeing you soon.

Over the past year I have wanted to

provide a newsletter which will focus

on the work which we are doing in

Saint Joseph’s Centre and the work

that is going on in Down and Connor.

Our aim is to keep you up-to-date

with the happenings within our deaf

community and the Diocese in which

we work.

Who is Who? I am Father Devlin, I was appointed in

August 2013 as the Full-time Chap-

lain to the Deaf in the Diocese of

Down and Connor. I have been work-

ing with Father Paul for many years

and I am sure you will recognise me.

My sole purpose is to help support

you with all your Spiritual and Pasto-

ral needs and where I can with any

educational needs, UNLESS you ask to

me to complete any homework's,

then I can’t!

I am sure you are aware that I work

with a team to help complete this

work. We have Father Darach Mac

Giolla Catháin who is Parish Priest in

Corpus Christi and works Part-Time

with our Deaf Community. There is

also Denise Flack - Coordinator of

Northern Chaplaincy to the Deaf and

Sister Maeliosa Byrne O.P. who all

support this work.

What’s On We have a great range of different

events planned for this forth coming

year, and many events that happened

last year. I intend to give you a snap

shot of the upcoming events later in this

newsletter. However some important

Pastoral and Spiritual information

which you may need:

Masses There is Mass each Sunday at 11am in

Saint Vincent de Paul Parish, this is fully

signed and with visual support also. The

Address is: 169 Ligoniel road, Belfast,

BT14 8DP.

Were you aware that we have a Cen-

tre for the deaf? We have a Centre in

which we as a community can gather

and plan some activities. At the mo-

ment our initial plans are to have

Sunday Mass and at different times

throughout the year followed by a

light lunch. You can find out more

about those dates in the Calendar. We

have some very exciting plans for our

Centre for the Deaf and you can find

out more about these inside the

newsletter.

For those who don’t know about the

Centre it is on the Grosvenor Road in

Belfast, near the Royal Hospital . The

Centre has a fully working kitchen

with a large gathering Hall down-

stairs and two big rooms upstairs.

There is also secured parking at the

back of the Centre in its own car park.

The Centre can be opened up to other

groups and if you would like to use

the Centre or more information then

please feel free to contact Father

Devlin.

Welcome to our First Newsletter

I n s i d e t h i s

i s s u e :

Significant

Events

2

2014 Deaf

Congress

2

Youth Min-

istry

2

Monthly

Day Trips

3

Our New

Vision

3

Jordans-

town

3

Update of

Register

4

Saint Joseph’s Centre for the Deaf

Saint Joseph’s Centre Belfast

Newsletter A u t u m n 2 0 1 4 I s s u e 1

S p e c i a l p o i n t s o f

i n t e r e s t :

Contact details

New Vision for our

Deaf Centre

New Drop in ar-

rangements for our

Deaf Centre

Who is Father

Devlin?

Recent Past Events

Get the Calendar to

the Ready

Father Patrick Devlin, Full-Time

Chaplain to the Deaf of the Dio-

cese of Down and Connor

P a g e 2

Social Work Congress 2014

Significant Events within the Deaf Chaplaincy for 2014-2015

You will find with this news letter a

copy of our “Significant Events” for

2014-2015.

Please make yourself aware of

these and where possible attend,

this will allow us to get to know

one another much better and cre-

ate a community within our Chap-

laincy. To assist with this, begin-

ning Tuesday 7th October 2014

and every Tuesday there after, we

will be opening up Saint Joseph’s

Centre for the Deaf from 11am

until 2pm. This will allow people

to drop in and see what is happen-

ing within our community. It will

also provide me with an opportuni-

ty to help support you Pastorally.

Please keep an eye on these events

and our Facebook page to find out

more about each event.

Just to highlight some other key

events, in March we will be having

“Lenten Talks” which will take

place in Saint Vincent de Paul

Parish, and April 2nd

15 will be the Annual

Mass of Chrism in

Saint Peter’s at 11am.

There are initial plans

for a day of retreat to

take place in May 15

and its never to early

to put your names

down for the Lourdes

Pilgrimage in July and

Knock in September 2015.

Let’s remember our community is

only as good as each of us put into

it, so to make it lively pass on the

word about our centre to other

people who may not use it at the

moment.

are deaf or hard of hearing to

come along on a Tuesday be-

tween 11am and 2pm. We will

have different events happening

each week but this is mainly a

place for each of us to gather

together and get to know one

another. Have a chat and maybe

a place to come along with work

and have a quite study place or

get help with filling our differ-

We would like to create a Youth

Ministry within our community,

and so we need some volun-

teers to help with this. If you

would like to help please let

Father Devlin know.

Our Aim

Our aim is to create a welcom-

ing deaf centre for people who

ent forms or applying for jobs

etc.

Our aim is a one stop shop for

our deaf to gather together and

help one another in what ever

way possible. Maybe you have a

pastoral issue and you need

your chaplain to help you, then

call in and he will be more than

happy to help.

in the field.

This forum will run from 11.00 to

4.00pm on the 16th of September

at St. Joseph’s Centre for the Deaf,

321 Grosvenor Road Belfast, BT12

6BA. The morning session will

look at “A brief overview of Mental

Health services” and “Risk Manage-

ment – what is involved.”

The afternoon session will involve

group discussion around what are

the elements of good risk manage-

ment and the risk assessment tools

for social workers.

The forum is open to social work-

ers who are interested in or are

working in the area of mental

health and deafness.

Those who are interested in at-

tending please bring with you the

risk assessment tools you use in

your country (if possible translated

into English).

For further information and book-

ing please contact Paula Donohoe

at paula.donohoe@deafhear.ie or

00353868171418.

Social Work Forum

11.00 to 4.00pm

The theme of the social work fo-

rum is ‘Managing risk with clients

who are Deaf and have mental

health issues’. The objective is to

provide an opportunity to discuss

different risk management practic-

es and tools used by social workers

S a i n t J o s e p h ’ s C e n t r e B e l f a s t

N e w s l e t t e r

Deaf Chaplaincy Monthly Day Trips

P a g e 3 I s s u e 1

As you will see from the “Significant

Events” Calendar we will be having

monthly day trips.

This will give us a day to go somewhere

and see new sites. It may be that you

would like to take a trip to Banbridge

and visit the “Outlet” Centre there and

get some Christmas shopping in or we

go away to Downpatrick and see the

trail of Saint Patrick.

The key to this is for us to go together

and have some fun, and it will be on the

1st Monday of each month so make sure

you let Father Devlin know that you

wish to join in on the trip as it will be

first come first served with limited

seating on the bus.

For more information please text or

email Father Devlin.

For more infor-

mation on

this

wounderful

School

please contact the Principal,

Mrs Anne Magee on 02890

863 541 or visit

www.jordanstownschool.org

As you know Father Devlin is

Chaplain to all the deaf for

the Diocese of Down and

Connor, which includes Jor-

danstown School. In this role

Father Devlin works closely

with other Chaplains who

work within the school. Fa-

ther Devlin helps provide the

Sacamently preparation for

all Catholic children within

the school ensuring that they

receive their Sacaments

After meeting with many of you over the past year,

we are in agreement that our deaf centre needs some

life brought into it.

Our New Plans for our centre is going to include :

•A refurbishment of the existing Deaf Centre to pro-

vide a purpose built shared community resource

which will have dedicated training, recreational and

educational programmes for the deaf, hard of hear-

ing, blind, visual impaired and the extended commu-

nities. This will include other organisations to en-

hanced Local and Regional links and also cross bor-

der links which are already in place. Allowing us to

maximize the usage of our Centre and provide much

need help and support for other groups and organi-

sations to give them assistance in the local area as

well.

•The works are required in order to bring the exist-

ing building up to current building control standards,

including new replacement heating system and new

internal lighting, with provision of a dedicated inter-

nal fit out of existing ground floor spaces to provide

a purpose built community learning and outreach

facilities and an upper floor IT area and Prayer

Space.

Left of page is a plan of what the ground floor would look

like after the works are completed. Below is a plan of what

the first floor and prayer room area would look like after

the work is completed.

There are also initial plans for the one apartment to be

reassign into a 4x individual apartment complex. It is also

hoped that the income raised from this would support the

rest of the centre.

Hopes, Dreams and

Expectations for our Centre

Jordanstown School

We

are in the process of updating our Deaf Register and as a

result we would like to make sure we have your contact details

up to date.

So we would be grateful if you could complete the box below and return it to Father

Devlin as soon as possible. If easier you can email the details to stvdep@btinternet.com and just put “Deaf

Register” in the subject box. Also if there is anyone in the family who is deaf and housebound and would like

to be added to Father Devlin’s First Friday’s Sick List then please let him know either by Text or Email.

If there is more than one person at home who is deaf please add their details into a separate page. Our aim is

to move a lot of our communication over to email if this is possible. Please do not forget to put your email

address onto the sheet.

321 Grosvenor Road,

Phone: 028 9071 3401

Email: stjosephscentrebelfast@gmail.com

We would like to extend our congratulations to Bernadette

McCaffrey and Éamon McCaffrey on celebrating their 25th

Anniversary and the Renewal of their Wedding Vows on the

25th August 2014. I think you will all agree it was a beautiful

day and a lovely meal. Thanks to all who attended. Berna-

dette’s Mother and Father (pictured in the photo) Celebrated

their 50th Wedding Anniversary and renewed their wedding

vows a few weeks prior to Bernadette.

ALSO

Someone TURNED the big 50. We will not say who it was as

Father Devlin wouldn’t want everyone to know he is 50

NOW!!!! The turn out in Saint Joseph’s Centre and the Cake

was a lovely touch, and also proof that Father Devlin did have

hair.

ALSO

The Down and Connor Pilgrimage to Lourdes this year had

the theme of "Joy of Conversion " It was great to see the com-

munity from Saint Joseph’s Centre with Father Devlin in

Lourdes sharing, as you can see, a little ice cream! Remember

to keep the date free next year as it would be great to see an

ever greater number of us out there next year.

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