Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Auxiliary Training Weekend
This weekend the ordinands in the auxiliary ministerial training course will leave behind their day jobs, wives, families and friends and descend on the Church of Ireland Theological College where they will be in residence from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon. As well as worship and opportunities for fellowship there will be a number of seminars and lectures.
In Marianella, the Redemptorist Centre on nearby Orwell Road, the ordinands will share in an ecumenical seminar led by Professor Frances Young, Cadbury Professor of Theology in the University of Birmingham, who is best known to the students for her book The making of the creeds.
Back in the Theological College, the Revd Sandra Pragnell, Rector-Designate of Dundalk, will give a seminar on ?Theological Reflection? and there will be a session on ?Safeguarding Trust?, the Church of Ireland?s code of good practice for ministry with children, led by Canon John McCullagh, Secretary of the General Synod Board of Education. In the continuing church history programme, the Revd Patrick Comerford will reflect on the baggage which has been created by the legacy of the past and will consider the effects of myths and memories.
Today (Saturday) CMS Ireland will have a Spring Sale in St Philip?s church hall, Temple Road, Dartry, Dublin 6, from 10 30 until 12.30 in support of the medical work in the Dr Christine Matthews Medical Centre in southern India. The sale will be opened by the Revd Patrick Comerford, CMS Ireland?s Southern Regional Coordinator.
On Monday the House of Bishop begins a three day meeting in Cork to mark the city?s status as European City of Culture. The bishops will be received by the Lord Mayor of Cork and will meet representatives of the civic and commercial life of the city. They will meet researchers of the National Suicide Research Foundation, of which the Bishop of Cork is a director, visit the Michael Collins Museum and have an introduction to the silver exhibition which will be opened next week.
The second in the new series of organ recitals, which has been organized by St Patrick?s and Christ Church cathedrals, will be given on Wednesday at 6.30 pm in St Patrick?s by David Leigh, assistant organist in St Patrick?s.
On Thursday Trinity College, Dublin, will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Adam Loftus, the College?s first provost. The preacher at a special service in the College Chapel will be the Revd Dr Stephen Hampton from St John?s College, Durham. Meanwhile the World-Wide President of the Mothers? Union, Ms Trish Heywood, will begin a visit to Cork which will include a visit to the Lord Mayor, on Friday, in the company of the Bishop of Cork and Cork, Cloyne and Ross Diocesan MU President, Ms Marg Everett. Ms Heywood, who succeeded Lady Eames in 2001, is in her second term of office. She has travelled widely and under her presidency the Mothers? Union has continued its involvement in combating world poverty and promoting literacy and parenting.
On Friday the Archbishop of Armagh will institute the Revd Rosemary Logue to the incumbency of Sixmilecross and Termonmaguirke. Ms Logue has been Rector of Tullyaugnish in Co. Donegal since 2003.
The clergy of Dublin and Glendalough will have a one day Liturgical Conference in All Hallows College led by Canon Ricky Rountree, the Central Liturgical Officer of the Church of Ireland, and the Ven. David Pierpoint, the Diocesan Liturgical Officer. The conference will concentrate on the baptismal service and on services for those near death.
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