Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 16 April 2011
As part of the Rathmines Church Project, the Rubicon Conference will be opened by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin in Rathmines Town Hall on Good Friday and will continue on Holy Saturday.
The conference, which will be a build up to the official launch of the project on Easter Sunday at noon in Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines, will be intimate and intentional - a small environment designed to draw together innovators and the best ideas through which the Gospel can be embodied in public life.
Rubicon is being created as a yearly gathering where church and cultural leaders can come together to collaborate and explore ideas about how the Gospel can be expressed within today’s cultural context. The conference's method of learning will be simple -exposure, conversation and collaboration. The organisers do not want to create just another conference but, instead, will intentionally seek to provide a platform for the best and brightest ideas that are shaping this island and the world. By bringing together leaders from the media, education, politics, arts and entertainment, business, the social sector and the church to learn from one another, it is hoped to instigate lively interaction and learning. The organisers believe that inherent in Christian faithfulness is the responsibility to create a better world, one that reflects God’s original design and intention. Rubicon is to be a place where those gathered will be able to explore what that might look like and how God’s intention is showing up in the lives of their peers and the cultural projects they create.
Presenters at Rubicon 2011 will include Phyilis Tickle (author of The Great Emergence), Alan Scott (Causeway Vineyard), Gavin Jennings (RTÉ Radio 1), Ethno-Graphic Films (USA Film Company) the Very Revd Dermot Dunne (Christ Church Cathedral) and Fr Peter McVerry (Homeless Trust).
For more information, visit www.wearerubicon.com or contact the Revd Rob Jones; email/0862854098.
Tomorrow morning (Sunday) the celebrant at the Palm Sunday Eucharist in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, will be the Bishop of Limerick & Killaloe. In All Saints’ Church, Raheny, Dublin, at 6pm, the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible will be marked by a marathon reading of the Bible by 400 volunteers which will continue until Maundy Thursday while a similar project in Rossory parish church, Enniskillen, will be launched at 7pm by the Archbishop of Dublin.
Holy Week in the Dioceses of Cashel & Ossory is being marked this year with a special series of events and services. In addition to the parishes, the six cathedrals are providing a unique programme of events for Passiontide and Easter with a wide-ranging spectrum of worship and speakers. Bishop Burrows begins the week this Palm Sunday on RTE Radio 1 at 11am with a series of Passiontide reflections while in the evening at 7pm in St Laserian's Cathedral, the Very Revd Tom Gordon will lead a service of Passiontide readings and music, 'The Way of the Cross', with the Laserian Consort directed by Mark Duley.
On Tuesday at lunchtime in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Peter Barley will give a special meditative organ recital for Holy Week.
The new Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, who took up office last week, will have his first public diocesan engagement on Maunday Thursday when he will preside at the Chrism Eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral at 11.30am.
In St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, on Good Friday, Canon John Bartlett will be the preacher at 11.15am Mattins and at the Proclamation of the Cross service at 2pm.