Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 31 October 2009
CITI Lecture Series
The Church of Ireland Theological Institute began a programme of monthly public lectures last month, when Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent of The Irish Times, spoke on ‘The Church and the Media – mutually exclusive expectations?’
The series continues next Wednesday evening at 8pm when the Bishop of Limerick & Killaloe, the Rt Revd Trevor Williams, will speak about his work with the Hard Gospel Project and the Hard Gospel Implementation Working Group. His lecture is entitled ‘If the Church has nothing to say about reconciliation, it has nothing to say’ – Lessons of the Hard Gospel Project for the life, work and witness of the Church of Ireland’.
Bishop Williams was Leader of the Corrymeela Community from 1993 to 2003, and has had additional first-hand experience of conflict in Northern Ireland as the rector of parishes in Belfast and in Co Down. He is a former producer in religious affairs broadcasting with the BBC.
Future lecturers in the programme include the popular author, theologian and church historian, Catherine Fox, who is a weekly columnist with the Church of England Newspaper, and the former Dean of Down, the Very Revd John Dinnen. Further details are available from the Institute (01-4923506) which is situated in Braemor Park, Chruchtown, Dulbin 14, beside Mount Carmel Hospital.
The lecture series is open to the public, according to the Director of the CITI, the Revd Dr Maurice Elliott, who said he hoped the programme would be of interest to clergy and laity, to people who had never studied theology, churchgoers and non-churchgoers alike.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, Schola Liturgica, from the Netherlands, will sing at the Choral Eucharist while in the evening the Revd Raymond McKnight, Rector of Urney and a former Chaplain to the Forces, will preach at the annual Royal Irish Regiment Service of Remembrance. In Monkstown parish church, Co. Dublin, the All Saints’ Day Eucharist will be sung by members of the Dun Laoghaire Choral Society while at 8pm, in All Saints’ Church, Grangegorman, the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne, will preach at the Patronal Festival Eucharist which will be sung by Schola Gregoriana.
In Clonakilty the Bishop of Cork will institute the Revd Daniel Owen to the incumbency of the Kilgarriffe union of parishes. Mr Owen has been Rector of Cobh and Glanmire since 2003.
On Tuesday a new series of lunchtime lectures begins in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Organized by Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise (Irish Guild of the Church), which is celebrating its 95th anniversary, the lectures will be in English and will be followed by a short discussion at which contributions in Irish will be most welcome. The first lecture will be given by Dr Valerie Jones who will speak on ‘Colaiste Mobhi – a Gaelic Experiment’.
In St Patrick’s Cathecdral, Armagh, on Thursday evening there will be a Gala Charity Concert in aid of the Cancer City Centre Hospital, Belfast, the H.D.U RVH , Belfast, and the Murgwanza Hospital, Tabora, Tanzania. Dr Stephen Reaney, a member of the Cathedral Choir, will return to Tabora in January to assist with an AIDS project.
On Friday evening in St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, there will be a concert of Bach’s liturgical music. ‘Abenmusik: Cantatas in Contect’ will be performed by Resurgam with the Irish Baroque Orchestra directed by Mark Duley. Malcolm Proud will be at the organ and the choir of St Canice’s Cathedral and students from Kilkenny College will take part.