Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
CMH Quiet Day
The Church’s Ministry of Healing Dublin and Glendalough Annual Quiet Day 2025 will take place on Saturday 22 March, in Newcastle Parish Centre (Church Lane, Newcastle, Greystones, Co Wicklow A63 X782).
The facilitator will be Lydia Monds, Ministry Leader with the Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland. It promises to be a time of renewed connection with God, leaning upon His strength, provision, and promises, as we navigate the hills and valleys of life. Sessions will include contemplative story–telling, where the Psalm will be shared on sand, and a deeper look at different phrases in the Psalm that might prompt us to view it with fresh eyes. There will also be times of facilitated meditative prayer, as well as time and space to respond to what you have heart through personal prayer or art spaces. We will be leaning into the gift of silence, and allowing Love to speak, as we are supported to be still before God.
This is intended a day of resting in God’s unfailing love and turning towards ourselves with compassion. The CMH Quiet Day was extremely popular last year, and attendees experienced it as a source of encouragement, creativity and peace, as we gathered in the presence of the Lord, our Healer. If you would like to join us for this special day, please email Jeanne at [email protected]
Those who are interested in the Ministry of Healing ought to read Archdeacon Ross Styles’ article in the current issue of the Churchof Ireland journal, Search. Details at www.searchjournal.ireland.anglican.org
The series of lunchtime lectures, ‘No homes to go to: Dublin charities and homelessness, 1790–2025’, concludes in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, on Tuesday at 1.10pm when Professor Ronan Lyons, Associate Professor of Economics in TCD, will speak on ‘Ireland’s Housing Crisis. What now? What next?’
In St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick on Tuesday there will be a lunchtime concert at 1.10pm, with cellist Alona Kliuchka accompanied by Irina Dernova.
On Thursday at 1.10pm in Dublinia there will be the first of a short series of lunchtime lectures marking 150 years of the Synod Hall. The architectural historian, Dr Michael O’Neill, will speak on ‘The background to and architecture of the former Synod Hall at Dublinia’. Admission free, but booking required at Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublinia-spring-lecture-series-tickets-1220751824569
The Rt Revd David McClay, Bishop of Down & Dromore, has appointed the Revd Henry Blair as Dean of Down. He be instituted as Rector of the Lecale Area Mission Partnership on Wednesday 26 February and installed as Dean in Down Cathedral on Sunday 2 March.
The new dean is the Ireland National Director for Sharing of Ministry Abroad (SOMA), prior to which he was Incumbent of the Parish of Tullanisken & Clonoe in the Diocese of Armagh. He was ordained in 2004 and has a background in both agriculture and accountancy. He succeeds Dean Henry Hull who retired in December 2023.