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Art & Music Course in Christ Church
There has been strong interest in the forthcoming course on ?Art and Music in the Life of the Christian Church?, to be held on Monday evenings in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, from 7 February to 14 March. An introduction to the history of art and music in the context of the Christian tradition through the centuries will be provided by means of illustrated lectures. Each evening will comprise two lectures, one on art followed by one on music, and the list of speakers has now been confirmed.
The programme for the art lectures is as follows: ?Early Christian Images and Icons?, Aonghus Dwane, Christ Church; ?The Architectural Fabric and Christian Symbolism?, Dr Rachel Moss, TCD; ?Illuminated Manuscripts?, Dr Jennifer O'Reilly, UCC; ?Great Religious Works of Art?, Raymond Keaveney, Director, National Gallery; ?Stained Glass?, Dr Nicola Gordon-Bowe, NCAD; ?Into the New Century: Modern Art in the Church?, Catherine Marshall, Irish Museum of Modern Art.
The speakers on music will be Frank Lawrence, Ó Cléirigh Institute, UCD, ?Liturgical Chant?; Andrew Johnstone, TCD and Christ Church, ?The Organ?; Dr Barra Boydell, NUI Maynooth, ?Reformation ?Change and Continuity?; Peter Barley, St Patrick's Cathedral, ?The Anglican Choral Tradition?; Dr Kerry Houston, NUI Maynooth, ?Oratorio ? the European Tradition?; Blánaid Murphy, Director, Palestrina Choir, ?Into the New Century ? Modern Liturgical Music?.
Some places are still available for the full series or for individual lectures. Please contact the Course Director, Aonghus Dwane, at 01-4737118 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Updates may be had from the cathedral website at http://www.cccdub.ie
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will broadcast a Service of Holy Communion from Kilkenny College where the preacher and celebrant will be the Headmaster, Canon Jack Black, and the Director of Music, Dr David Milne. In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the lecture sermon in the ?Where do we go from here?? series will be delivered by Dr Dermot McAleese, formerly Whately Professor of Political Economy.
In the context of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will preach in Clongowes Wood College tomorrow (Sunday) morning and on Monday he will be in Barcelona to preach to members of the Sant? Egidio Community in the Church of Sant Just.
On Monday the Bishop of Down and Dromore will be the preacher at the lunchtime Holy Communion and Healing Service in St George?s Church, Belfast. Bishop Miller will take as his theme ?Holy Communion ? an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace?.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod and the House of Bishops will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin, on Tuesday. Following the meeting of the bishops the Archbishop of Armagh will launch ?Alcohol in the Life of Young People?. This is a report which has been prepared by the Social Justice and Theology Panel of the Church in Society Committee, chaired by the Dean of Leighlin, the Very Revd Gordon Wynne. It is the first in what it is hoped will be a series of reports, statements, and position papers from the Church and Society Committee which will be published under the new Church of Ireland publishing imprint, Church of Ireland Publishing.
Church of Ireland Publishing (CIP) is administered by the Literature Committee which is chaired by Dr Kenneth Milne and its Publishing Officer is Dr Susan Hood. The remit of CIP is to provide for official publications of the Church, to identify and fill gaps in the Church?s publishing programme, and to facilitate publication for church related bodies.
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