Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 14 November 2009
Singing the Psalms Launch
This time last year a new Church of Ireland publication to encourage more psalm singing in churches was launched. It contained simple musical psalm settings for all the psalms needed for the liturgical year. Now, a second publication with fresh and engaging simple chants for the psalms for the coming liturgical year beginning on Advent Sunday 2009 has been produced. This will be launched this morning by the Bishop of Derry & Raphoe in All Saints Church, Clooney.
The publications came about as a result of the feeling that the practice of singing psalms has been somewhat lost in parishes. In an attempt to recapture the richness and variety of emotion expressed within the psalms, the Liturgical Advisory Committee of the Church of Ireland asked musicians Alison Cadden and Peter Thompson to devise a way of setting the psalms to music that can be sung by anyone. Alison Cadden and Peter Thompson are both members of the Liturgical Advisory Committee and actively involved in the music of their parishes. Alison is a music teacher in Portadown, while Peter is Rector of Castlecaulfield.
Singing Psalms – Responsorial Psalms set to Simple Chant – Year C is published by the Columba Press at €17.99/£12.99.
The autumn meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held today in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, (Saturday), beginning at 10.30 am, while this evening Anuna will give a concert in Cashel Cathedral as part of the Cashel Arts Fest.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the Citizenship Service in Christ Church Cathedral where the preacher will be Fr Gerry O’Hanlon SJ while in St Patrick’s Cathedral the Archbishop of Armagh will preach at a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the 150th anniversary of the Adelaide Hospital School of Nursing. At 7pm in St Ann’s Church, Dublin, there will be a ‘Songs of Praise’ in aid of the Bishops’ Appeal and the Salvation Army. The music will be provided by the Steadfast Brass Band and the hymns will be introduced by Archdeacon Gordon Linney. In Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Episcopalian church serving Harvard University, Dr Susan Hood, who is participating in a programme in Boston College, will address the students on peace building.
On Tuesday the series of lunchtime lectures in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, organized by Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise (Irish Guild of the Church), continues. The Revd Andrew Jones, from the Church in Wales, will speak on ‘The Welsh Language and the Church in Wales’ The lecture will be in English and will be followed by a short discussion at which contributions in Irish will be most welcome.
The Church of Ireland Primary School Management Association AGM will be held in Church of Ireland College of Education at 2pm. Mr Joe O'Connell, Diocesan Education Secretary of Limerick (RC) Diocese, will speak on ‘Resolution of Conflict Situations in School Management' All members of Boards of Management in Primary Schools under Protestant Management are invited to attend.
Tuesday is also St Doulagh's Day, which will be celebrated in St Doulagh's Church, Balgriffan, by a Ecumenical Service at which the preacher is the Revd David Oxley, Rector of Finglas, at 8pm. St Doulagh's Church was built about 1140, and the Christian history of the site can be traced back to the 7th century
On Wednesday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will preach in the Chapel of the Church of Ireland Theological Institute at a service to mark the completion of the refurbishment of the Institute buildings.