Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
CMH:Ireland event
The Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland has announced a four–week online reading group, ‘Poems for Hope and Healing’ which will be held on Wednesday May 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th, from 7:30pm until 8:30pm each evening. Everyone is warmly welcome, whether you haven’t read a poem since school or whether you enjoy poetry but would like to read it in the company of others. Each hour–long session will be an invitation to pause, reflect, and pray, and discover how reading poetry together can be a spiritual practice that helps us listen to our emotions, see the world in surprising ways, and open the doors of our own creativity. The chosen poems, by Emily Dickinson, Wendell Berry, Denise Levertov, and many more, explore our relationship with the divine, and the healing power of nature. Book in via www.ministryofhealing.ie or search for us on Eventbrite.
The Friends of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, will host the final talk in the series linked by the theme, ‘Marking Time’ in the Chapter House at 2pm today (Friday.). Sighle–Bhreathnach–Lynch, former Curator on Irish Art in the National Gallery of Ireland, will speak on ‘A Moment in Time. The American O’Brien, Burns and Krehbiel Collections & their Support of Irish Art’.
Tomorrow (Saturday) the Archbishop of Dublin will attend a meeting of the Celtic Bishops in Wales which continues until Thursday.
In St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, on Tuesday there will be a lunchtime concert at 1.15pm when Konrad Artur Cygal (tenor) and Jagoda Świdzińska (guitar) will perform ‘Persist in Music’: including music by Weber and Britten.
On Thursday at 7pm in Lucan Public Libraries, Dr Stuart Kinsella, Research Advisor in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will give a talk on ‘Exploring the Monastic Origins of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin’.
It was announced on Easter Day, that the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd John McDowell, had appointed two new Canons for Armagh.
The Revd Colin Darling, Rector of the Ballymore & Clare group of parishes, has been appointed Prebendary of Tynan in the Chapter of St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh. The new Canon is also the Diocesan Director of Ordinands.
Mrs Janet Maxwell, Head of Synod Services and Communications in Church of Ireland House, Dublin, has been appointed as a Lay Canon in recognition of her significant contribution and distinguished service to the Church of Ireland over many years. Armagh Cathedral has six Lay Canons – the first were appointed in 1997 and Mrs Maxwell will be the fourteenth to take up office. Mrs Maxwell succeeds to the stall formerly occupied by the late Canon Wilfred Young.
Also on Easter Day it was announced that the Revd Scott Evans, Curate–Assistant in Holy Trinity, Rathmines, has been appointed as Rector of St Matthias, Killiney–Ballybrack. He was appointed chaplain to University College Dublin in 2016 and was ordained to the diaconate in 2023 following which he served as Deacon Intern in Kilternan parish.
Published in the Friday edition of The Irish Times