Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 27 February 2010
Communications Competition
The Central Communications Board, which is chaired by the Bishop of Limerick & Killaloe, the Rt Revd Trevor Williams, has launched the now annual Magazine, Website and Social Media Competition and invites entries within each category. Quality of design and layout, strength of editorial content and outreach potential are once again to be the standards of excellence against which entries will be judged.
The closing date is Friday, 26 March and winners will be announced at the General Synod in Dublin, in May.
In the Magazine section entries are invited in three print media categories - diocesan magazines, parish magazine and newsletters, and magazines and newsletters of Church of Ireland affiliated organisations. Similarly, entries are invited for websites of dioceses, parishes and Church of Ireland affiliated organisations. Also, there will be a social media section which will seek to recognize the most innovative use of Interactive Communication Technologies (ICT) or ‘social media’ over and beyond standard websites: for example, blogs, podcasts or social networking or content-sharing websites.
Magazines and newsletter entries should be sent, with one recent copy, to Jenny Compston, Press Office, Church of Ireland House, 61-67 Donegall Street, Belfast, BT 1 2QH, while website entries should supply an e-mail containing the URL to [email protected]. Social media entries should send an example or link including a description of the technology, how it has been applied and the objective of the initiative to Jenny Compston, Press Office, Church of Ireland House, 61-67 Donegall St, Belfast, BT 1 2QH, or to [email protected].
Entry forms may be obtained from the Church of Ireland Press Office by email: [email protected] or phone: from NI 028 9023 2909, from RoI 048 9023 2909. Click here for further details.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the speaker at the ‘Future Tenses’ Lenten series of sermons at the Choral Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, will be Dr Martin Mansergh TD, Minister of State in the Department of Finance.
A new ecumenical Lent series begins in Rathfarnham on Thursday evening. Entitled ‘Are We Ready for Change’, the series has been organized by the Church of Ireland and the local Roman Catholic churches and will be held in the Parish Centre, Willbrook Road at 8pm. The first speakers on the subject of ‘Politics: are we ready for a new world Order’ will be Dr Paul Gillespie, Lecturer in International Politics, UCD, and HE P.S. Raghavan, the Indian Ambassador to Ireland.
Next Tuesday there will be a lunchtime lecture in St Bartholomew’s Church, Belfast, where the environmentalist, John Woods, who has been closely involved with Friends of the Earth, will speak. ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’ will consider the future of energy resources in the UK. For further information, please click here.
In the evening, at 8pm, in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, there will be a recital by the Cramer Consort, directed by Colm Carey with Peter Barley (organ) and members of the Campanile Consort. The programme will include works by MacMillan, Palestrina and Leighton. Mr Carey is a son of the late Dean of Cork, the Very Revd Maurice Carey, and a former Organ Scholar of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, He is currently Master of Music of the Chapels Royal in the Tower of London and Belfast City Organist.
Next Friday is Women’s World Day of Prayer when there will be morning and evening services in churches throughout the country. This year the form of service has been prepared by the Christian women of Cameroon on the theme ‘Let Everything that has Breath Praise the Lord’