Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 2 April 2011
Magazine, Website and Social Media Competition
Next Friday is the closing date for entries to the Magazine, Website and Social Media Competition which is run under the auspices of the Central Communications Board, chaired by the Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd Trevor Williams.
Entries are invited from three categories of ‘publications’. In the Magazine Section entries are invited in three print media categories -diocesan magazines, parish magazine/newsletters and Church of Ireland affiliated organisation magazine/newsletters. The three categories in the Website Section are diocesan websites,
parish websites and Church of Ireland affiliated organisation websites. The Social Media section seeks entries which will demonstrate the most innovative use of Interactive Communication Technologies or ‘social media’ over and beyond standard websites, e.g.: blogs, podcasts or social networking or content-sharing websites.
Quality of design and layout, strength of editorial content and outreach potential will be the standards of excellence against which entries will be judged. The winners will be announced at the General Synod which will be held in Armagh, 12-14 May.
Entries are welcome from any committee or group associated with the Church of Ireland and further details and an entry from may be had from the Church of Ireland Press Office - [email protected] or 048/028 9082 8880.
Today (Saturday) the Church’s Ministry of Healing will have a Quiet Day at the Mageough Home, Cowper Road, Dublin, led by the Revd Garth Bunting, Residential Priest Vicar in Christ Church Cathedral while in the cathedral, at lunchtime there will be a concert by the Loretto School Jazz Band from Musselburgh, Scotland.
On Monday evening the Dean of Christ Church, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne, in his capacity as Guardian of the Spiritualities during the vacancy in the See of Dublin, will institute the Revd Stephen Farrell, curate of Taney since his ordination in 2008, to the incumbency of Zion and on Thursday evening he will institute the Revd William Olhausen as Rector of Killiney-Ballybrack. Mr Olhasen, a former Rector of Carrigrohane, is returning to the Church of Ireland from Bath where he has been Chaplain of Monkton Combe School. On Monday evening in Kilskeery parish church, Co. Tyrone, the Bishop of Clogher will institute the Revd Rosemary Logue as Rector of Kilskeery and Trillick. Mrs Logue, who has served in the Dioceses of Derry & Raphoe and Armagh has, most recently, been Priest-in-Charge in Cambuslang and Uddingston in the Diocese of Glasgow.
On Tuesday congregations in the greater Leeson Street area, including the parish of St. Bartholomew, are invited to a short ecumenical lunchtime prayer which will take place at 1pm in St. Finian's Lutheran Church, Adelaide Road. The prayer will be led by Fr. Richard Sheehy of Rathmines R.C. Church. There will be the opportunity to take lunch together afterwards in the adjoining "Lutherhaus", 24, Adelaide Road where tea and coffee will be provided.
On Wednesday evening Mrs Joy Gordon, President of the Mothers’ Union, will be the speaker at the Drumcomdra & North Strand Lenten series on talks on the theme ‘ What have we to say – has the Church anything to say in Ireland today’. The Ecumenical Lent Series in Rathfarnham, ‘Seeds of Hope’, will address the issue of ‘Hope for Unity’ on Thursday evening when the speakers will be Fr Ciaran O’Carroll, Vicar for Evangelization, and the Revd Ted Woods, Rector of Rathfarnham. On the same evening at 8pm the Mount Merrion-Booterstown Lenten Talk in the Radisson St Helen’s Hotel will be given by the former Taoiseach, Mr John Bruton, who will speak on ‘Religion and Politics’.