Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 13 August 2008Enthronement and Institutions
Next week brings a series of special services which will mark the official beginnings of a number of new ministeries.
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening in St Mary's Cathedral, the Rt Revd Trevor Williams will be enthroned as Bishop of Limerick and on Friday evening in St Flannan's Cathedral he will be enthroned as Bishop of Killaloe. Bishop Williams succeeds Bishop Michael Mayes who has retired.
On Wednesday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Adrienne Galligan to the incumbency of Crumlin and Chapelizod in succession to Canon Ivor Power who has retired. Ms Galligan, who was a secondary school teacher before ordination, has been curate of Seapatrick, Banbridge, since 2003. The Bishop of Down & Dromore will be in Aghalee on Thursday to institute the Revd Charles McCartney as rector. Mr McCartney has been Rector of St Donard's, Belfast, since 2004. On Friday the Bishop of Cashel & Ossory will institute the Revd Arthur Minion to the incumbency of Carnew and Crosspatrick in succession to the present Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne. Mr Minion has been Rector of Shinrone since 1999.
Today (Saturday) the Friends of St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, will visit St Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore, while in Drumbo parish church, Co. Down, Canon David Ferry, Rector of Donagheady, will be the witness at a meeting of the Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Archbishop of Armagh will be the guest on BBC Radio Ulster's programme, Speaking Personally. The programme will be broadcast at 4.30 pm and will be available for a further week on the BBC website www.bbc.co.uk.
In Belfast Cathedral the celebrant at the Choral Eucharist will be the Very Revd Penny Bridges, Dean of Region Five in the Diocese of Virginia, who was baptized in St Anne's in 1958. In Cashel Cathedral the preacher at the Harvest celebrations at 8 pm, which will take the form of Choral Evensong, will be the former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey.
A Service of Rededication of the Garden of Remembrance at St Mary's Parish Church, Belfast, which has recently been refurbished, will held at 3.00 p.m. The Act of Dedication will be performed by the Rector, Canon J P Walker and the Rev C Broddle, Senior Chaplain H M Forces in Northern Ireland, will preach. The Garden of Remembrance, which commemorates servicemen and servicewomen from the parish and neighbourhood who gave their lives in the two Great Wars, was opened on the 15th June 1947, and dedicated by the then Rector, the Rev A. A. Buchanan, a distinguished padre in the Second War, who later became Archbishop of Dublin.
The annual commemoration of Elizabeth Bowen will be held at 3.30pm in St Colman's Church., Farahy. Evening Prayer will be led by the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dr Robert MacCarthy and the address will be given by Dr Nicholas Grene, Professor of English Literature in TCD.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Representative Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House in Tuesday. The House of Bishops will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday and on Friday the Archbishop of Dublin will be in Singapore for a meeting of the Anglican Covenant Design Group.
On Friday a weekend of art music, talks and worship begins in St Nahi's Church, Dundrum where, at 8pm, Mrs Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs, will open Lighten Our Darkness, an exhibition of the Stained Glass and Historic Artifacts of St Nahi's.