Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 8 March 2008
Magazine & Website Competition
The Central Communications Board has launched its annual competition for magazines, websites and for the most innovative use of newer technologies. Design and layout, editorial content and outreach potential are to be the standards of excellence. The closing date for entries will be next Friday. Please click here for details.
In the print media section entries are invited in two categories, diocesan magazines and parish magazines or newsletters, while in the website section entries are invited from
diocesan and parish websites. In addition there will be a new category of 'Most innovative use of Newer Technologies’ and entries are welcome from any committee or group associated with the Church of Ireland.
Central Communications Board Chairman, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Alan Harper, in commending the competition, said:-
“Communication and proclamation are at the heart of the work of the Church of God. The 21st century is seeing an explosion in the variety of media available for the work of communication and proclamation. When shall we begin to exploit emerging digital media – even that which is consciously ephemeral – to communicate the Christian message?
Since we have to compete for attention in an increasingly crowded and pluriform communications marketplace it is necessary that we should be on top of our game. That is why the annual magazine and website competition is so important: competition challenges parishes, dioceses, organizations and groups to strive harder and achieve more.
Today (Saturday) there will be choir auditions in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, at 10.30 am and at 2.30 pm.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Friends of Cathedral Music will visit St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, for the Choral Eucharist while in the afternoon the Bishop of Cashel & Ossory will preach at the Connor Diocesan Mothers’ Union Festival Service. In St Columb’s Cathedral at 4pm the Dean of Derry, Dr William Morton, will install the Revd Derek Creighton, Rector of Glendermott, as a Canon of Derry. The Annual Sports Service will be held at 7pm in Christ Church, Taney, where the address will be given by Bryan O’Neill, former international tennis umpire and senior rugby referee. The singing will be led by the choirs of Alexandra College and Sandford Park School.
On Tuesday the Stranding Committee of the General Synod, the Representative Church Body and the House of Bishops will meet in Dublin.
The Bishop of Cork will be in Cardiff on Tuesday and Wednesday for a conference on ‘Law, Religion and the Family’ which will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Cardiff University Centre for Law and Religion of which the bishop is a research associate.
On Thursday the final lunchtime lecture in the Derry Cathedral Lenten series on the Christian’s response to God’s world will be given by Dr John Gilliland, former President of the Ulster Farmers Union. In the evening in the Church of the Assumption the final Rathfarnham ecumenical Lent session will feature Professor Linda Hogan, Irish School of Ecumenics, who will discuss the value a faith based life, and Mary O’Callaghan, Oscailt Holistic Centre, who will speak on the search for spirituality in a secular world.
On Thursday Evening in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, and on Friday evening in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, there will be performances of a 15th century Office for St Patrick by the Scottish medieval ensemble, Canty. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Friday evening at 8 pm the Cathedral Choir will give a St Patrick’s Festival Concert which will include works by JS Bach, Mozart and Bob Chilcott. Please click here for details.