Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 27 June 2009
Urban Soul 2009
Urban Soul, an active citizenship programme for teenagers 15 years old and above, organized by 3Rock, the Dublin Diocesan Youth Initiative, will be held from 7 to 10 July. Teenagers from Dublin, Belfast, United States, the UK and Africa who are passionate about social action will be coming together and working in projects like area clean-ups, painting over graffiti, and running community events in the Dublin area.
The underlying values that motivate Urban Soul are those taught and demonstrated by Jesus. His life and message show us that loving God is just the beginning and that we, too, are called to actively love those around us. Through partnership with local communities Urban Soul seeks to deliver hope, bestow dignity, bring equality of opportunity and inspire long-term change.. The Urban Soul team is comprised of various traditions and nationalities all reaching to achieve the same goal.
Alongside working with communities, there will be events on in the evenings with notable speakers such as Mark Ritchie and Andy McCourt, as well as singers and musicians, Paul Baloche, Kevin Max and Drive.
If you would like your youth to be involved in Urban Soul please feel free to apply. For further information contact: Susie Keane PR, Urban Soul, at 01 6394863/087 9444557 or visit the website: www.urbansoul.eu
Today (Saturday) in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in association with the current exhibition, Icons in Transformation, there will be a day long seminar on ‘Icons in Liturgy and Culture’, beginning with registration at 10.30am. The speakers will be Dr Sarah Smyth, from the TCD Russian Department; Dr Luis Alvarez, who runs workshops on writing icons; Dom Gregory Collins OSB from Glenstal Abbey, and Canon Patrick Comerford from the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. Between the lectures there will be musical interludes presented by Lyric FM broadcaster, Tim Thurston. The day will conclude with Choral Evensong at 5pm which will have an Orthodox flavour. In the evening, at 8pm, in St Bartholomew’s Church, Dublin the Clyde Chorale, with Fraser Wilson and Peter Parshall, will present an evening of music by Mendelssohn
Tomorrow (Sunday) the penultimate ordinations to the diaconate will be held. In St Patrick’s Cathedral, John McLoughlin, William Anderson, Elizabeth Cairns and Amelia McWilliams will be ordained by the Archbishop of Armagh, while in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Killala, Andrea Wills will be ordained to serve in the Kilmoremoy group of parishes, based on Ballina, Co. Mayo. Lucy Green will be ordained in St Flannan’s Cathedral, Killaloe, while Mark Lennox and Judith McGaffin, will be ordained in St Columb’s Cathedral by the bishop of Derry & Raphoe.
The final ordinations to the diaconate will be held in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral on Monday evening when Paul Burke, Adrian Moran and Anne Skuse will be made deacons by the Bishop of Cork.
On Monday, 28 members of the TCD Chapel Choir will travel to Hong Kong. Among other engagements, they will sing at the Choral Eucharist and Evensong in Saint John's Cathedral on Sunday 5 July where the Dean of Residence, the Revd Darren McCallig, will preach.
On Monday evening the Bishop of Connor will institute the Revd George Davison as Rector of Carrickfergus, while on Thursday evening he will institute the Revd Amanda Adams to the parishes of Ballyrashane and Kildollagh, Co. Antrim.
The Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the opening, by Dr Martin Mansergh TD, of an exhibition of a new exhibition in Marsh’s Library on Tuesday evening. ‘Beware the Jabberwock’ is an exhibition of natural history books.