Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 7 March 2009
Communications Competition
The Central Communications Board has launched the Magazine, Website and New Technologies Competition for 2009 and invites entries within each category. Quality of design and layout, strength of editorial content and outreach potential will once again be the standards of excellence against which entries will be judged.
In the magazine section entries are invited from diocesan magazines, parish magazine/newsletters, and Church of Ireland affiliated organisation magazine/newsletters, while in the website section entries are invited from diocesan websites, parish websites and Church of Ireland affiliated organisation websites. The new technologies section will look for the most innovative use of new technologies, including interactive communication technologies (ICT) or ‘social media’ over and beyond standard websites - blogs, podcasts or social networking or content-sharing websites.
Entries are welcome from any committee or group associated with the Church of Ireland and must be received by Friday 20 March. The winners will be announced at the General Synod which will be held in Armagh over the weekend, 8-10 May.
Entry forms may be had from the Church of Ireland Press Office ([email protected] or 048- 9023 2909).
This weekend the NSM students will have another of their residential sessions in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute where, this morning, they will be addressed by the Archbishop of Dublin. In Christ Church, Bray, the Church’s Ministry of Healing will have a Quiet Day, beginning at 10.30 am, on the theme of ‘Illness As Opportunity’ The
leader will be the Revd Baden Stanley.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will broadcast a Service of he Word from the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. The service will be conducted by the Director of CITI, the Revd Dr Maurice Elliott, and the preacher will be Canon Patrick Comerford. The Archbishop of Dublin will preside at Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral which will be followed by a presentation to the Ven. Edgar Swann who has retired from the stipendiary ministry after forty years of dedicated service. The Bishop of Connor will dedicate a new extension to St Patrick’s Hall. Broughshane, where the rector is the Dean of Connor, the Very Revd John Bond.
Lent is one of the periods of the Christian year associated with study and this is reflected in a variety of group meetings next week. On Tuesday evening in Laurel Lodge Parish Centre the parishes of Castleknock and Laurel Lodge will host a session on ‘Israel and Palestine – Questions of Identity’ at which Dr Susan Hood and Owen Cassidy, who have both recently returned from Israel and Gaza, will speak, while in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, on Wednesday, the lunchtime lecture will be given by Paul Curtis, from Mucros Conservation Bindery, Killarney, who will speak about the Burges Archive. The LIFE course, designed to investigate the questions of life and spiritually, specifically focusing on the role of the Christian faith, will start in CORE at St. Catherine’s church, Dublin, on Wednesday evening and continue for five weeks. Further information may be had from www.corechurch.ie , or the Revd Rob Jones at 014735100. On Thursday evening in Rathfarnham parish church the ecumenical Lenten series on leadership continues. Andrew McNeile will speak on ‘ The Churches – Is anyone Listening’ and Commandant Jim Gavin will speak on ‘The genius of the GAA – the Influence of Sport’.
On Wednesday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd David Gillespie to the parish of St Ann & St Stephen. Mr Gillespie, who was ordained in 2001, has been Rector of Moy in the Diocese of Armagh since 2004.