Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from the Irish Times
Video on Faith Launched
A new video, entitled Profiles of Faith, has been produced under the auspices of the General Synod's Central Communications Board, which is chaired by the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke. It will be launched by the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, in St Patrick's Cathedral, on Tuesday, and by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, on Friday.
The video consists of four short programmes in which four members of the Church of Ireland discuss, in a frank and open manner, their belief and the challenges which have confronted it. The participants in the programmes are the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Dr James Mehaffey; the Irish Times journalist, Patrick Comerford; Mrs Violet Thorburn, a teacher and foster parent in Donegal; and Daniel Nuzum, an ordinand in the Theological College who has since been ordained.
It is intended that the video will be a contribution to the life and mission of the Church of Ireland in the new millennium but it is hoped also that it will have an appeal to those in the wider Christian community who are struggling with issues of faith. Profiles of Faith will be distributed to the rectors of all Church of Ireland parishes together with printed material to assist with group work.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the former Dean of Vancouver, Dr Herbert O'Driscoll, will preach at the Sung Eucharist in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, where in the evening the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will be the preacher at the 75th anniversary service of the 2nd Cork Scout Group. In Belfast the Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd Edward Darling, will preach in St John's Church, Malone, while the former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, will preach in St Anne's Cathedral where he will dedicate processional candlesticks in memory of Mrs Morag Shearer, wife of the Dean of Belfast. In Cambridge the Dean of St Patrick's, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will preach in the Chapel of Magdalen College where the Dean of Chapel is Dr Heuston Finlay, a former Bishop's Vicar in Kilkenny, while in the Chapel of Trinty College, Dublin, Senator Mary Henry will give the sermon on "Community" at the Sung Eucharist. The Irish Federation of Women's Clubs will hold its millennium service at Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the Archbishop of Armagh will preside at a series of rural deanery meetings which will consider the findings of a diocesan team which has visited Bishop Allison College in Uganda. The team of seven clergy and laity, under the leadership of Canon W.G. Neely, Rector of Keady and Diocesan Coordinator for the Decade of Evangelism, visited Uganda for a week in January. During the visit a contribution of £4500, which was raised in the Diocese of Armagh, was handed over to the College by the Church Missionary Society Ireland.
The second in the current series of lunchtime lectures in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will be held on Tuesday at 1.15 pm. The speaker will be Dr Colm Lennon, NUI-Maynooth, whose subject will be "Secular Cathedral & Renaissance City".
In Trinity College, Dublin on Wednesday the third in the chaplaincy spring lecture series will be held at 8.00 pm in the Arts Building where the President of the Milltown Institute, Dr Patrick Riordan SJ, will speak on "Politics and Christianity". On Thursday the chaplaincy will host a "Festival of Faiths" evening to coincide with a multi-cultural week in the College.