Churches ‘taste’ friendship
Archdeacon Stephen McBride, (All Saints, Antrim) and the Very Rev. Fr. Sean Emerson, (St. Comgalls RC) present a cheque to Ricky Fee (Eye Feel Good Foundation.) The money was raised at a Wine Tasting evening at All Saints Parish Centre INBT-39F-WINE TASTING.
ALL Saints’ Parish centre in Antrim was the venue for a wine tasting evening held between members of All Saints’ Parish Antrim, St Comgall’s Roman Catholic Parish as well as some visitors from Antrim Methodist.
Archdeacon Stephen McBride and The Very Rev Fr Sean Emerson have known each other for over 20 year having worked together on the Antrim Road in the early 1990s and now once again in Antrim. Both parishes in Antrim have enjoyed excellent relationships over a long period and the clergy from both denominations regularly take part in joint services and work together as chaplains in Antrim and Holywell Hospitals.
For the past seven years, parishioners have joined together on the Good Friday walk of witness and as a further sign of the good relationships within the churches and wider community, the Catholic clergy are active participants in the Royal British Legion Remembrance Day services.
The wine tasting event was hosted by Jim Delargy who is the proprietor of the Vintage in Antrim which is renowned for its excellent selection of fine and exotic wines.
Speaker for the evening was Felecia Matheson, representing Tindal Wines Ltd., and she introduced eight wines, four red and four white - Prosecco Coldigiano (Italy), Castelvero Cortese (Italy), Swallow’s Tale Sauvignon/Chenin (South Africa), Eco Viognier (Chile), Les Olivades Rose (France), Castelvero Barbera (italy), Spencer La Pujade (France) and Alpamanta Cabernet Sauvignon (Argentina). An added benefit of the evening was the £615 raised for Eye Feel Good, a charity foundation based in Antrim which raises money through organised events to help those living with cancer within the community.
Ricky (All Saints) and Anne Marie (St Comgall) Fee are the founders of the charity and attended the evening. They gave a short presentation on the work of the charity and were delighted with the generous response of all who were present.
Plans are already underway for a pre-Christmas wine tasting event where wines suitable for the Christmas season will be sampled.
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