Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 20 September 2008
New Term in the Theological Institute
The new academic year has begun in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. Last Thursday the Summer School for students in training for the non-stipendiary ministry convened and continues until tomorrow (Sunday). Ordinands will be introduced to the distance learning modules by the Revd Tom Gordon, Consultant Director of Non-Stipendiary Ministry, Dr Lindsey Hall, Lecturer in Divinity, and the Revd Dr Tim Hull from St John's College, Nottingham.
Next Monday the ordinands in full time training will begin two weeks of practical and pastoral training. The second year ordinands will have a week of preparation for placements followed by a week which will deal with the ministry for peace and reconciliation while the final year students will have a week on the pastoral care of marriage and a week on youth ministry.
This year there will be twenty students in full time training for the stipendiary ministry and thirty-one students in part time training for the non-stipendiary ministry. The number of ordinands in full time training is lower than in previous years as, in preparation for the move from the B.Th course to the M.Th course, there has been no intake into first year.
This afternoon (Saturday) the Bishop of Cashel & Ossory will give a public lecture, on ‘Mensa : Public Altar to Domestic Table' in which he will share his personal reflections on the Eucharist. The lecture will be held in the Integritas ecumenical centre, Ennisnag.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, following Evensong, Professor Roger Stalley, from TCD, will open an exhibition to mark the 130th anniversary of the re-opening of the cathedral after the restoration by G. E. Street. The exhibition has been curated by the architectural historian, Dr Michael O'Neill..
The St Nahi's Festival Weekend continues in Dundrum, where there will be guided tours, lectures, a lunchtime organ recital by David Adams and a candlelight concert. Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the preacher at the Festival Choral Eucharist will be Fr Vincent Sherlock, from St Nathy's Cathedral, Ballaghadereen.
Tomorrow (Sunday) in the absence of the Archbishop of Dublin, the Rite of Confirmation will be administered in Malahide, by Bishop Samuel Poyntz and in Castlemacadam by Bishop Walton Empey. At Evensong in Belfast Cathedral the Ven. Barry Dodds, Archdeacon of Belfast, will be installed as precentor and the Rector of Lambeg, the Revd Ken McReynolds, will be installed as a canon. The Revd A.L. Harrison, former RAF Chaplain, will preach in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, at the commemoration of the Battle of Britain.
On Wednesday evening in Christ Church, Cathedral, Dublin, the Dean, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne, will launch The Light of Other Days, by Sam Hutchinson. This selection of monuments, mausoleums and memorials in Church of Ireland churches and graveyards has been published by Wordwell Books.
The Clogher Diocesan Synod will be held in Aghavea on Thursday while in St Conleth's College, Clyde Road, Dublin, there will be an Autumn Fayre in aid of St Mary's Home for Elderly Ladies beginning at 10 am. The Bishop of Cork will be the guest of Bishop John Buckley at a Bi-Centenary Mass, concelebrated by the Papal Nuncio, in the Cathedral of St Mary & St Anne, Cork.
On Friday the journalist Mary Leland will launch a Flower Festival in the recently restored St. Michael's Church, Blackrock, Cork, which will start of a weekend of celebrations.
The AGM of the Church Education Society will be held in the Boardroom of the Church of Ireland College of Education on Wednesday 8 October at 7pm.