Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Summer Search
Later this month, in Belfast, the Anglican Consultative Council will met in Ireland for the first time and so, appropriately, the summer issue of the Church of Ireland journal, Search, is devoted to matters Anglican. Appropriately, too, this issue has been edited by Dr Bridget Nichols, Lecturer in Anglicanism and Liturgy in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute.
Bishop Graham Tomlin explains the genesis of the Nairobi Cairo Proposals which, if adopted in Belfast, will reposition relationships within the AC almost a century after a definition of these relationships, centered upon the See of Canterbury, was first attempted. Archbishop John McDowell offers a close examination of what might be the subject of determinative change following ACC–19: the “Instruments of Communion”.
It would be naïve to pretend that the meeting takes place against a tranquil background in Church or world and so Dublin born David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus, in Cambridge, traces the journey from a significant meeting of bishops in Porto in 2000, while his younger brother, Alan, Professor Emeritus of Theology in Nottingham, considers the way religion in Ireland has been studied and represented..
Lindsay Yates, Canon Precentor of Canterbury Cathedral, provides the inside story of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury describing how careful choreography articulated the way in which we can expect this office to be exercised in the future.
Continuing the liturgical theme, the Revd Neil Vigers, from the Anglican Communion Office, surveys the paradox of shared heritage and diversity in the expression of Anglican worship worldwide.
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‘ Summer Music in Sandford’ continues today (Friday) in Sandford parish church, Ranelagh, at 1.10pm when there will be an organ recital by Pater Barley, Organist of St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick. On Thursday evening the 200th anniversary of Sandford Parish and Sandford Parish National School will be celebrated by the launch by John Bowman of ‘Sandford Parish: A History, 1826–2026’ and the opening of the Sandford 200 Exhibition.
Tomorrow (Saturday) the annual Dean’s Gift Day will be held in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin. Dean Morton will be in the cathedral form 11.30 until 1pm to receive gifts which will be used for the conservation of the clock on the Minot Tower which has been telling the time to Dubliners from around 1880.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Sunday at 3.30pm the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at a service of ordination when Esther Simpson and Cennis Ikenna Chikzie will be made deacons. Later in Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, the Bishop of Connor will ordain Andrew Brooking and Mathew Campbell, while in the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Sligo, the Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin & Ardagh will ordain Joshua Pringle and Victoria Pringle.
The series of organ recitals concludes in Christ Church, Dublin, on Monday at 6.30pm when the recitalist will be James Short, the cathedral’s Assistant Director of Music.