Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Ordination Season in Full Swing
Next week there will be seventeen ordinations throughout the Church of Ireland. Six deacons will be ordained, four of whom will serve in the auxiliary ministry, and eleven deacons, five of them auxiliaries, will be raised to the priesthood.
Tomorrow (Sunday) in Christ Church Cathedral the Archbishop of Dublin will ordain two deacons ? Ian Cruickshank for the curacy of Bray and Norma McMaster who will serve in the auxiliary ministry in the Dublin parish of St George and St Thomas. The Bishop of Down and Dromore will raise four deacons to the priesthood while in Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, the Bishop of Connor will ordain four priests.
On Thursday, the Feast of the Birth of St John the Baptist, in Dromore Cathedral, the Bishop of Down and Dromore will ordain two deacons ? Trevor McKeown as an auxiliary minister for the Cathedral and Christopher Woods for the curacy of Dundela - while two auxiliary deacons, George Beattie for Antrim and David Ferguson for Holy Trinity, Belfast, will be ordained by the Bishop of Connor. In Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will raise two deacons to the priesthood and in St Fin Barre?s Cathedral the Bishop of Cork will ordain the Revd Hazel Minion to the priesthood.
Today (Saturday) the Dean of St Patrick?s, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will hold his annual Gift Day in the Cathedral from 10.00-12.00 & 14.00-15.30. This year the proceeds will go towards the restoration work on the spire. This evening in St Fin Barre?s Cathedral, Cork, there will be a public lecture by the former primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Bishop Richard Holloway, entitled ?The Organist and the Jazz Player ? Doing Improvisational Ethics?. The lecture will be preceded by the presentation of certificates to those who have completed the Bishop of Cork?s Course in Theology. At the same time, in St Multose?s Church, Kinsale, there will be a recital by Cabrillo High School Madrigals from Orlando.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 8.00 pm, the Cathedral Choir, directed by Judy Martin, will give a concert entitled ?In Pace; From Plainsong to Polyphony? in association with the exhibition of medieval manuscripts in the Cathedral Treasury. The concert will be introduced by Dr Barra Boydell, from the Department of Music in NUI, Maynooth, who is the author of the recently published A history of the music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. The programme will include works John Sheppard, Robert White, Thomas Tallis, and John Taverner.
Tomorrow (Sunday) in St Ninian?s Cathedral, Perth, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will be installed as an honorary canon of the Diocese of St Andrews with which his dioceses are linked. In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Armagh, the Dean, the Very Revd Herbert Cassidy, will commission a diocesan team who will spend the summer in Paraguay under the auspices of the South American Missionary Society while in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, the Friends Festival Service will take place at Evensong when the preacher will be the Dean of Hereford, the Very Revd Michael Tavinor.
On Monday the Archbishop of Armagh will address the Cookstown Clerical Society on ?Anglicanism Today?. At 8.00 pm in St Michan?s Church, Dublin, the Madison Diocesan Choir will give a concert.
The Down and Dromore Diocesan Synod will be held on Tuesday in Movilla parish church and on Wednesday the final recital in the current series in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, will be given at 6.30 pm by Matthew Owens, Organist and Master of the Music in St Mary?s Cathedral, Edinburgh.
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