Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 8 November 2008
Historical Society Meeting
The next meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Chapter Room of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Saturday 15 November. The programme will begin at 10.30 am with coffee and registration when there will be an opportunity for members to renew their subscriptions which are currently €50/£33. Non members are
In the morning session Dr W.J. McCormack, formerly Professor of Literary History in Goldsmiths’s College, London, and presently in charge of the Worth Library in Dr Steeven’s Hospital, Dublin, will speak on ‘Oliver Goldsmith and some Church of Ireland clerics of his day’. He will be followed by Ann McCormack, a postgraduate student in St Hugh’s College, Oxford, who will give a research paper on the English seminary, St Aidan’s College, Birkenhead, and its Irish connections in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Dr Brian Gurrin from NUI Maynooth will talk about religious surveys in the eighteenth century, and Canon Patrick Comerford, Director of Spiritual Formation in the Church of Ireland Theological College, will speak on ‘Irish Anglicans and the Greek War of Independence.’
The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year - in Armagh Public Library (Robinson Library) in the spring and in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in November. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church, and to facilitate publication. Queries may be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, the Revd Dr Adrian Empey, at +353-1-4055056 or by email (click here).
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at 3.15 pm RTE 1 will broadcast, for the first time, the annual ecumenical Remembrance Service from St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, which will be attended by President McAleese. The service will be led by Canon Charles Mullen, Dean’s Vicar, and the preacher will be the Revd Harold Good, a former President of the Methodist Church in Ireland. This service replaces the usual Sunday morning broadcast.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at 6pm the combined choirs of Christ Church Cathedral and St Bartholomew’s parish will sing Evensong in St Bartholomew’s Church, Clyde Road.
In St Mary’s Church, Dunmanway, at 4pm, the Bishop of Cork will institute the Revd Wilhelmina Nesbittt to the incumbency of Fanlobbus. Ms Nesbitt, who is a native of Belfast, trained in Queen’s Ecumenical Foundation, Birmingham. She was ordained in the Diocese of Hereford in 2000 and has been team Vicar in Saddleworth in the Diocese of Manchester since 2004.
On Monday evening in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the monthly Spiorad service of Celtic meditation at 7pm will focus on St Laurence O’Toole, who was archbishop of Dublin from 1162 to 1180. His feast day will be celebrated on Friday when the Archbishop of Rouen and a party from Eu, the place of the saint’s burial, will visit Christ Church where his heart is enshrined. On Tuesday, the Dean of Cashel, Very Revd Philip Knowles will be in Belgium as part of an Ecumenical group from Tipperary, to attend a Remembrance Service at the Munster Cross, Leper.
On Thursday the Bishop of Cork will open and speak at a conference on ‘Political Asylum and Theology: Immigration and Christian Ethics in Ireland’ which has been organized by St Fin Barre’s Cathedral Immigrant Support Group. The principal speakers will be Professor Michael Conway from Maynooth and Dr Agnes Nel from South Africa.
On Friday at 3.30 pm in Trinity College Chapel the Archbishop of Armagh and other Christian leaders will participate in a public dialogue to reflect on their visit to Israel/Palestine earlier this year. The dialogue will be preceded by a screening of a documentary film of their visit and followed by a question and answer session. Further details from Canon David Moynan by email (click here)