Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 3 January 2009
Living Worship Course
The Dublin & Glendalough Church Music Committee has arranged another Living Worship course in music and worship. This popular course, which is now firmly established in the musical calendar, will take place in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute (formerly the Theological College) in Braemor Park, Churchtown, on four Saturday mornings beginning on 10 January.
The course is broadly based and will be of interest to anyone who would like to learn more about the ‘what, why and how’ of the music of worship. Each session will include a time for singing and the course leaders will include Geoff Weaver, the inspirational free-lance church music conductor and animateur, who is a senior advisor to the RSCM, Fr Paul Kenny from the Irish Music Association, Dr Gerard Gillen, formerly Professor of Music in Maynooth and Organist in St Mary’s Pro Cathedral, and the Revd Tom Gordon.
The course fee is €100 and further information and booking details may be had at www.churchmusicdublin.org or at 078-668 3998.
The Church Music Committee is a leader in the provision of training for musicians in the local churches. The Living Worship course is part of the three year Archbishop of Dublin’s Certificate in Church Music which, in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy of Music and others, provides tuition in organ playing, choir training and in the structure of the Church’s liturgy and the role of music in it. There are fourteen students on the course this year.
From next Monday the contact details for the Elphin & Ardagh Diocesan Office will be The Market House, Main Street, Blacklion, Co.Cavan: telephone 071-9853792 or e-mail [email protected].
On Friday Geoff Weaver will lead a workshop on Gospel Music and World Songs in the the parish church of St George & St Thomas, Cathal Bruga Street, Dublin. This event will be held in conjunction with RSCM Ireland and further information and booking details may be had from 01- 671 2426.
In Holy Trinity Church, Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, on Friday evening, the Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson, will institute the Revd Alan Capper to the incumbency. Mr Capper has been Rector of Lack in the Diocese of Clogher since 2003. His wife, Lorraine, is in training for the stipendiary ministry in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute while her sister, the Revd Joanne Megarrell is curate in Moira in the Diocese of Dromore.
Those who have book tokens to exchange will derive great value from the new county history of Carlow. For €60 euro the eager reader will obtain 1070 pages, including indexes, bibliography, and thirty-one chapters, each by different author. Three chapters in particular are likely to interest the Church of Ireland reader. The architectural historian, Dr Michael O’Neill, who is a member of the Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Culture Committee, writes on the medieval churches of Co Carlow and on Old Leighlin Cathedral, and his chapter is well illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographs. The Revd Dr Adrian Empey, the recently retired Principal of the Church of Ireland Theological College, who has written a good deal in recent years on ecclesiastical history, returns to his academic roots, the polity of Anglo-Norman Ireland, with a study of the liberty and counties of Carlow in the middle ages. Finally the recently prolific Dean of St Patrick’s, Dr Robert MacCarthy, contributes a chapter of the Church of Ireland in Co Carlow from 1549 to 2000.
Carlow History and Society, edited by Thomas McGrath has been published by Geography Publications, Dublin.