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Saturday 11 February 2012
RSCM Psalm Day
Today (Saturday) in the Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Royal School of Church Music Ireland, in association with the National Centre for Liturgy, will host a Psalm Day. The day will involve papers and discussions on the nature of psalmody, the history of the psalms we sing as well as highlighting the challenges facing musicians in dealing with psalms. There will also be some practical discussion on the various types of psalm setting which we use to help participants to come to a greater understanding of the wealth and beauty of the texts and the settings which aim to bring them to life.
This morning there will be sessions on ‘The Psalms: God’s People at Prayer’ by Fr Michael Mullins, ‘The role of the psalms in the Reformation Church’ by Dr Ursual O’Donovan, and Psallite Sapienter: Psalmody and Monastic Life’ by Fr Senan Furlong OSB. After lunch there will be a presentation by Fr Paul Kenny and the Revd Peter Thompson, Rector of Donaghmore in the diocese of Armagh, and a member of the Liturgical Advisory Committee, on aspects of psalm singing. The day will end with an Ecumenical Celebration of Evening Prayer.
Details of RSCM events may be had from Mark Bowyer, RSCM Coordinator for Ireland,Flat 7, 35 Castle Street, Dublin 2 ( +353 87 117 2995) or [email protected]
This evening (Saturday) at 6pm in Dublin’s City Hall the choir Resurgam, directed by Mark Duley, Director of Music in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway, will give the second in a series of three recitals which celebrate the music of Giovanni Gabrielli. The choir will be joined by Malcolm Proud, Director of Music in St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, on the organ and the Irish Baroque Orchestra.
Tomorrow (Sunday) there will be a service of Choral Evensong in St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, where the preacher will be Canon Helen Steed, Rector of Clones.
The second in the series of lunchtime lectures associated with the exhibition on the 19th century restoration of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, curated by Dr Michael O’Neill, will be given in the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 on Tuesday at 1.15pm. The title of the lecture will be ‘A Vision for Cathedrals’ and the speaker will be the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, who is a former Dean of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork. The exhibition, entitled ‘Christ Church Restored. George Edmund Street’s 1870s Restoration of Christ Church Dublin’, continues in the Irish Architectural Archive until the end of February.
Dr Jackson will join the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Alan Harper, in London on Wednesday where they will be the guests of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace for a celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth.
‘Archive of the Month‘ for February on the Church of Ireland website highlights the work of the Dublin University Mission to Chota Nagpur, India. The catalogue of the DUMCN papers in the Representative Church Body Library is available on–line as is the list of the papers of Canon W.J. Marshall, who served in Chota Nagpur from 1962 to1972. These collections are complemented by a rare series of lantern slides which illustrate aspect of the Mission’s wok from its origins in 1892 up to 1920. The provenance of the slides is uncertain. They were discovered in the Deanery in Killaloe by the Dean of Killaloe, Dr Stephen White, who transferred them to the RCB Library last year.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’