Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 23 October 2010
Lectionary Readings Booklet
The Season of Advent begins on the 28 November, and with it starts a new liturgical year and a fresh cycle of daily scripture readings. In preparation for this Church of Ireland Publishing has announced the availability of Sunday and Weekday Readings 2011. This annual booklet is compiled by Canon Brian Mayne with the assistance of the Revd Ken Rue. It is intended to help worship planners and lesson readers know what the appointed readings are for Sundays and guide them through the options for weekday services. It has been found particularly useful by readers and parish readers who find the tables in the Prayer Book rather baffling at times. The price of Sunday and Weekday Readings 2011 is unchanged from the last two years, at£3/€4. Copies are available from the Good Bookshop, Donegall Street, Belfast and the Resource Centre, Holy Trinity, Rathmines, Dublin.
The Liturgical Advisory Committee has now made the text of the weekday readings accessible on the Church of Ireland website – www.ireland.anglican.org/worship. There can also be found a fully worked out form of Daily Prayer according to the Book of Common Prayer. Both these pages can be accessed on iPhone and iPad and attached to the home page so that they can be used on the move.
A guide of a different kind is the latest book by the former Archdeacon of Tuam, Anthony Previté. A Guide to Lough Corrib’s Early Monastic Sites seeks to highlight part of our fast disappearing heritage in the hope that such awareness might stimulate a determination to save and preserve it. Some of the sites, now in the care of the OPW, such as Annaghdown, Claregalway and Cong, are well known but the great strength of this guide its that it introduces the reader to many smaller, almost unknown sites which will be joy to visit. The book is richly illustrated with many of the author’s own photographs, including particularly impressive aerial photography, and replete with helpful maps. It has been published by Oldchapel Press at €15.
Another ‘heritage project’ is the projected refurbishment of St James’ graveyard by Dublin City Council. The graveyard was last tidied up in 1988 and the report of the St James's Graveyard Project has been republished by the genealogist, Sean Murphy, as an online publication. It is available at http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/epubs/.
Today (Saturday) in Holy Trinity Church, Crosshaven, there will be an introduction to and demonstration of the new organ with the builder, Henk van Eeken, the consultant, Mark Duley and the parish organist, Carmel O’Shea. In the evening at 8pm there will be a Gala Concert with Mark Duley, Carmel O’Shea and the Templebreedy Children’s Choir. In St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Evensong will be sung by the choir of St Molua’s Church, Stormont.
Tomorrow (Sunday) Dr Anne Lodge, Principal of the Church of Ireland College of Education, will give the address at the Choral Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin. This term the theme is ‘Virtues and Vices’ and Dr Lodge will speak on ‘Hipocracy’. In St Ann’s Church, Shandon, in association with the Cork Jazz Festival, there will be a Jazz Eucharist while in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin at 5pm there will be a celebration of the Eucharist in Irish.
On Thursday, Dublin University Far Eastern Mission will host the 2010 Godfrey Day Memorial Lecture on ‘The Chinese Communist Party, Daoism and the Environmental Future of China,’ to be given by Martin Palmer, UN Special Advisor on Religions and the Environment, at 19:30 in the Swift Theatre, Arts’ Building, Trinity College Dublin.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Sundays and Fridays there will be tours of the belfry at 2pm. For more information or to book a tour outside the scheduled times contact the cathedral office at 01-6778099 or [email protected].