Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from the Irish Times
Spring Issue of Search
The latest issue of Search. A Church of Ireland Journal is now available. The journal continues to be edited by the Dean of Raphoe, Dr Stephen White, but there is a new reviews editor, Dr Andrew Pierce, Lecturer in Theology and Church History in the Church of Ireland Theological College, and a new chairman, the Very Revd Maurice Carey, who is priest in charge of St John's Church, Sandymount.
The journal continues to reflect that rich variety which for many is the essence of Anglicanism. Professor Fred Aalen, Trinity College, Dublin, writes on the relationship between Christianity and the environment, while Canon Charles Kenny, from Belfast, considers some issues surrounding the vexed matter of sectarianism. There are contributions also from the prominent Methodist, the Revd Dudley Levistone Cooney, and from Canon W.J. Marshall, Vice Principal of the Theological College, on the current state of Anglican-Methodist dialogue.
Looking to the past, there are articles on the early nineteenth century Bishop of Limerick, John Jebb, and a prominent lay contemporary, Alexander Knox, by Dr Alan Acheson and the Very Revd Peter Barrett, Dean of Waterford, respectively. The life of a leading churchman of the twentieth century, the Ven. Raymond Jenkins, is reviewed by Dr Andrew Mayes, Erasmus Smith's Professor of Hebrew in Trinity College, Dublin.
Search is available from the Religious Education Resource Centre, Holy Trinity Church, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Parish Eucharist from Christ Church, Clifden, where the rector is the Archdeacon of Tuam, the Ven. Anthony Previté. The choir of St Mark's Church, Ballymacash, Lisburn, who have regular visitors to the west of Ireland will sing the service.
In Kinsale the Annual Sea Service will take place in St Multose' Church where the preacher will be Canon David Williams. Among the visitors will be representatives from the Merchant Navy Association from Barry in Wales, and Captain Platt, Harbour Master of Padstow in Cornwall. Also taking part will be the crew of the Courtmacsherry lifeboat, and representatives of An Slua Muiri, the Irish Navy, Irish Coastguard and the Air/Sea Rescue Service from Culdrose in Cornwall.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is National Pilgrimage Day. In Co. Wexford the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will lead an Ecumenical Walk from Enniscorthy to Ferns Cathedral, while in north County Dublin there will be an Ecumenical Pilgimage starting from Howth, Bayside, Baldoyle and Sutton. In the evening, in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin there will be an AIDS Candlelight Service beginning at 7.30 pm.
The Organist and Master of Choristers in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Mr John Dexter, will give an organ recital in the cathedral at 8.00 pm on Wednesday.
On Thursday evening in Foxrock the former Rector of Kill o' the Grange, Canon Billy Gibbons, will speak to the local Sudan Support Group. Under the title "Kagwada revisited - The Southern Sudan Today" he will discuss conditions in the southern Sudan and his recent visit across the border from Uganda.
In St Philip and St James' Church, Booterstown, on Thursday evening, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will institute the Revd Arthur Barrett to the incumbency of Booterstown and Mount Merrion. Mr Barrett, who was ordained in 1997, has been curate of Seagoe in Portadown.
The Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, has appointed the Revd Ronnie Bourke, Rector of Kingscourt, as Prebendary of Tipper in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, to represent the Diocese of Meath. Mr Bourke has also been appointed Chancellor of St Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare, and a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Trim.