Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 30 April 2011
The annual conference of the Centre for Celtic Spirituality will be held in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, from 20 to 22 May and booking for the conference is now open.
The principal speaker will be John Joe Spring, the well known expert on Celtic spirituality. He is Vice- President of All Hallow’s, College, Dublin, and co-ordinator of the B.A. programme in pastoral theology. He will speak about the faith of our ancestors who lived with deeper awareness of the cycles of the natural year and marked out the times and seasons and holy places with insight and wisdom, and also about the concept of Heroic Sanctity which was a central feature in the early church’s monastic and missionary tradition.
The opening session, on ‘The Celtic Sense of Space and Time’ will be on Friday 20 May at 7.30p.m in the Cathedral. On Saturday morning there will be a workshop on the Celtic understanding of Heroic Sanctity and this will be followed in the afternoon by a Walking Pilgrimage to Navan where there will be a visual presentation of myths and legends associated with this ancient place and, on the Hill of Navan, an opportunity to share in Celtic prayer. In the evening in the Cathedral there will be a concert by Martin Donnelly from Co. Antrim who writes discerning nature poetry, in the pattern of Patrick Kavanagh, which has been set to music. The conference will conclude on Sunday morning with a Celtic Eucharist at which the preacher will be the Revd Kiran Young Wimberly, Pilgrimage Director.
Full details may be had from the Centre for Celtic Spirituality, 43 Abbey Street, Armagh BT61 7DY ([email protected])
The Centre for Celtic Spirituality is charitable project shared by Anglicans, Methodists Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Quakers and Mennonites. It is staffed by the Revd Grace Clunie, (Church of Ireland) and Revd Kiran Young Wimberly, (Presbyterian Church in Ireland).
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, the Revd Glen West, Rector of Derryvullen Noth, will be installed as Prebendary of Donaghmore which is reserved for a representative canon from the Diocese of Clogher.
Next Monday the Bishop of Down & Dromore, the Rt Revd Harold Miller, will run the Belfast Marathon with a team of church leaders from Northern Ireland and Ethiopia. Simon Haile and Tefera Abiche, the two Ethopian church leaders, both work for the Kale Heywet Chruch which has been a long term partner of the Christian Relief and Development Agency, Tearfund, of which Bishop Miller is a Vice President. The runners hope to raise £10,000 to help twenty Ethiopian churches establish savings groups and small businesses which will benefit a further 5,000 people in poor communities.
On Tuesday congregations in the greater Leeson Street area from five denominations, are invited to a short ecumenical lunchtime prayer at 1pm in St. Finian's Lutheran Church, Adelaide Road. The prayer will be led by Ms. Judith Barden of St. Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road. There will be the opportunity to take lunch together afterwards in the adjoining "Lutherhaus", 24, Adelaide Road, where tea and coffee will be provided.
The Archbishop of Armagh has summoned an Electoral College for the vacant see of Clogher to meet in Armagh on Wednesday 4th May. The see is vacant following the election of Dr Michael Jackson as Archbishop of Dublin.
At lunchtime on Wednesday in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Peter Barley will play piano sonatas by Mozart and Kenneth Leighton. There will be a retiring collection in aid of the Companions of St Mary’s Cathedral Music.