Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 14 January 2012
A new publication compiled by Canon Brian Mayne entitled After Communion – A Commentary on the Postcommmion Prayers has been published by Columba Press. It focuses on the postcommunion prayers in the 2004 Book of Common Prayer. Canon Mayne says of his latest publication: ‘After Communion tells the story of how the Postcommunion prayers – a new feature in the 2004 edition of the Book of Common Prayer – came about. A short paragraph gives the source of each prayer and a sentence sums up the thrust of the prayer.’
Canon Mayne has for many years compiled the lectionary readings which appear in the Church of Ireland Directory and in the annual booklet Sunday and Weekday Readings produced by Church of Ireland Publishing. He is a former honorary secretary of the Liturgical Advisory Committee and, in his quintessentially understated manner, carried the enormously responsibility of being editor of 2004 Book of Common Prayer. His memoir Changing Scenes. Changing Ministry in a Changing Church in a Changing Land was published by Columba Press in 2003.
The Trinity College Chapel Choir will head west today (Saturday) for its first trip of 2010. This evening the choir will sing at Mass in Galway Cathedral and tomorrow (Sunday) they will sing at the Parish Eucharist in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church where the TCD Chaplain, the Revd Darren McDallig, will preach.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning at 10.15am RTE Radio will broadcast a Service of Morning Prayer conducted by Canon Adrian Empey. On RTE television at 11.05am there will be a Service of the Word with the Lay Ministry Group and the Fingal Chamber Choir. The service will be led by Canon Barbara Fryday and the Very Revd Tom Gordon and the music will be directed by David Maxwell.
At Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the service will be sung by the Christ Church Choir and the Choristers of St Patrick’s Cathedral, while in St Patrick’s Cathedral Evensong will be sung by the St Patrick’s Girls’ Choir. At 4.30pm the Assistant Organist of St Patrick’s, David Leigh, will play Messiaen’s La Nativite Du Seigne.
‘Schools and Faith’ is the title of the lunchtime lecture to be given at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Stranmillis Road, Belfast on Tuesday at 1.10pm. The lecture will be given by David Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Education, Stranmillis University College. Subtitled ‘How Christian is Religious Education?’, the lecture is set against the background of far–reaching changes in school curricula which have taken place in recent years, the subject of Religious Education not being exempt. Some concern has been expressed that the particular status of the Christian faith has been eroded, with comparative religion coming to the fore in its place.
Next week is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Information on the various events in the Dublin area may be had from the Dublin & Glendalough diocesan website (www.dublin.anglican.org) and from the Dublin Council of Churches website (www.dublinchurches.ie). The Archbishop of Dublin will preach at the inaugural service in the Church of SS Columbanus & Gall, Milltown, on Wednesday evening at 8pm while on Thursday evening at 7.30pm Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will give the address in St Patrick’s Church, Dalkey. At Choral Evensong in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the Unity Week preacher will be the Principal of the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, the Revd Dr Maurice Elliott.
Next Thursday and Friday the Archbishop of Dublin will be in Lambeth Palace for a meeting of NIFCON, the network for inter–faith concerns.