Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 19 June 2010
Ordinations in Abbeyleix, Downpatrick, Dublin and Maynooth
Next week nine deacons will be ordained for service in the dioceses of Leighlin, Down, Dublin and Glendalough and Meath.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon in St Michael & All Angels Church, Abbeyleix, the Bishop of Cashel & Ossory will ordain Alec Purser to serve in the non-stipendiary ministry in Abbeyleix. In Down Cathedral the Bishop of Down & Dromore will make three deacons. Noel Gordon will serve in the non-stipendiary ministry in Willowfield, Lynne Gibson will be curate of Dundela and Jack Kinkead will be curate of Cregagh.
The Dublin and Glendalough ordinations to the diaconate will take place in Christ Church Cathedral tomorrow (Sunday) at 3.30pm when the Archbishop of Dublin will make four deacons. Terry Lilburn, Ken Rue and Martha Waller will serve as non-stipendiary ministers in Kilternan, Powerscourt and Raheny respectively while Paul Arbuthnot will be curate of Glenageary.
On Thursday, at 8pm in St Mary’s Church, Maynooth, the Bishop of Meath & Kildare will ordain Paul Bogle to serve as curate of Dunboyne & Rathmolyon.
The Trinity College Chapel Choir, with the Church of Ireland Chaplain, the Revd Darren McCallig, will be on tour in Leuven this weekend when they will give recitals in St Peter’s Church and at the former Irish College which is now run by the Irish government as the Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe.
Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, retired Bishop of Buganda, who has courageously spoken out in support of gay Ugandans, is visiting Ireland as part of a six week speaking tour of the USA and Europe.. He spoke in St George’s Church, Belfast, last night (Friday) and tomorrow (Sunday) morning he will preach in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. His visit to Ireland is at the invitation of Changing Attitudes Ireland which is a network of people, lay and ordained, who are working for the full affirmation of lesbian and gay people in the Church of Ireland.
Today (Saturday) there will be a lunchtime concert in Christ Church Cathedral, Dulbin. By the Casper Civic Chorale while in he evening, at 5.30pm, there will be a special service in the Lady Chapel of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, for the Order of St Lazarus.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the celebrant and preacher in Whitechurch parish church, Co. Dublin, will be Bishop Jered Kalimba from Shyogwe diocese in the Anglican Church of Rwanda. Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, will be sung by the Choir of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Monaghan and at 8pm in St Michael’s Church, Dun Laoghaire, the summer organ concert will be given by the organist of Sandford parish, David Bremner.
On Monday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the opening, by the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Ms Mary Hanafin TD, at the new exhibition in Marsh’s Library entitled ‘Hippocrates Revived’. In St Michael’s parish church, Killorglin, Co. Kerry, the Gillette Chamber Singers from the USA will give a concert in aid of the parish.
The lunchtime recital in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick on Wednesday will be given by pianist, Stuart O’Sullivan, who will play works by Chopin, while in the evening at 6.30pm, in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, the cathedral’s assistant organist, David Leigh, will continue his Louis Vierne organ recitals
There will be a lunchtime healing service in St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, on Thursday and in the evening the Gillette Chamber Singers from Wyoming will give a concert in St Peter’s Church, Drogheda, in aid of the church maintenance fund.