Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 1 October 2011
President McAleese to Attend Law Service
Next Monday morning, at 10.15, the Annual New Law Term Service will be held in St Michan’s Church, Church Street, Dublin, and for the first time the service will be attended by President McAleese.
The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, will officiate, assisted by the Dean of Christ Church, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne and the Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven. David Pierpoint, and the address will be given by Archbishop Jackson. As ever the choir will be from the King’s Hospital.
The congregation will include visiting judges from Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales, as well as political leaders, members of the Irish judiciary, An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and the Diplomatic Corps.
Today (Saturday) the Limerick, Killaloe & Ardfert Diocesan Synod will be held in Villiers School, Limerick. The Friends of the National Collections will visit St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, and their visit will conclude with a reception in the Deanery. In the evening, at 8pm, the George Hewson Memorial recital will be given in St Patrick’s by the organist, Stephen Farr, while in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Trim, at 7.30pm, the annual Youth Harvest Festival will feature the Mark Ferguson Band.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is the first Sunday of Michaelmas in Trinity College, Dublin, where the addresses at the 10.45 am Choral Eucharist in the College Chapel will be on the theme of ‘Questioning Faith’. The first address, tomorrow (Sunday) will be given by the TCD Dean of Residence, the Revd Darren McCallig, and among the subsequent speakers will be Fr Brian D’Arcy, Dr Katherine Zappone and Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon the Friends of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh will have their Friends’ Festival Service. In St Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher the new Bishop of Clogher, the Rt Revd John McDowell, will be enthroned at 4pm and at the same time in St Mary’s Cathedral, Tuam, the new Bishop of Tuam, the Rt Revd Patrick Rooke, will be enthroned.
Next Wednesday at 7pm the AGM of the Church Education Society will be held in the Boardroom of the Church of Ireland College of Education in Rathmines. The Resurgam Choir, directed by Mark Duley, Director of Music in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway, begins a ‘Songs of Farewell’ tour on Wednesday in St Patrick’s Church, Newport. On Thursday they will sing in St Mary’s Cathedral, Tuam, on Friday in St Fachtna’s Cathedral, Kilfenora, and the tour will conclude next Saturday in St Fachtna’s Cathedral, Rosscarbery.
On Thursday evening the final recital in the Music in Calary series will be given by Deirdre Moynihan (soprano) and Alec O’Leary (guitar) in Calary parish church, Co. Wicklow at 8pm.
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and Sheppard’s Irish Auction House have formed a partnership to raise €1million for vital restoration work to the cathedral. An Inaugural Biennial Auction forms the centre pieces of the programme. This ‘No Reserve Auction’ will be held in Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, Durrow, on Friday 16 December and will be broadcast live online. Details of how to be a part of this programme as a sponsor or as a patron may be had at cccdub.sheppards.ie.
Associated events will be a Post–Auction Ball and Dinner in Castle Durrow Country House Hotel on 16 December, a Conservation Course in Christ Church Cathedral crypt with conservator, Erica Devine, on 11 & 12 November and a recital with the Christ Church Choir an Organist in St Fintan’s Church, Durrow on 9 December.