Press Releases21 Feb 12

Interreligious Dimension to Trinity College Chapel’s Lent Series

Details of the Lenten series of Sunday morning speakers in the Chapel of Trinity College Dublin have been announced. The series is entitled “6 Voices 6 Psalms: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Perspectives on the Psalms of David.” Over six Sundays in Lent a group of distinguished visiting speakers will share their thoughts on some of the best–loved verses in the Hebrew Bible. The line–up contains some prominent Christians as well as Jewish and Islamic scholars.

The full list of speakers and their chosen psalms is as follows:

• On Sunday 26 February Professor Linda Hogan, Vice–Provost & Chief Academic Officer at TCD will speak on Psalm 13.
  How long, O Lord? Will you forget me for ever? How long will you hide your face from me?
• On Sunday 4 March, Fr. Paddy Gleeson, Catholic Chaplain TCD, will speak on Psalm 51.
  Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
• On Sunday 11 March, Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness, Former Supreme Court Justice, will speak on Psalm 104.
  Bless the Lord, O my soul.  O Lord my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honour and majesty, wrapped in light as with a garment.
• On Sunday 18 March, Mr. Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times will speak on Psalm 23. 
  The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.
• On Sunday 25 March, Dr. Zuleika Rodgers, Lecturer in Jewish Studies TCD, will speak on Psalm 137. 
  By the rivers of Babylon – there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion.
• On Sunday 1 April, Dr. Roja Fazaeli, Lecturer in Islamic Studies, TCD will speak on Psalm 139.
  O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away.

Commenting on the series, the Revd Darren McCallig, Dean of Residence and Chaplain TCD, said: “The Psalms have long served an important role in the individual and corporate lives of the members of the three great Abrahamic faiths. Taken together, the Psalms give voice to the full range of human emotions – everything from joy to sorrow, desperation to anger and vengeance to peace. We are very much looking forward to hearing six personal responses to these living words.”
 
The addresses will be given in the context of the Sunday morning Choral Eucharist (10.45am) in TCD Chapel. All are welcome. Further details, as well as recordings of the addresses, can be accessed on the TCD Chaplaincy website, www.tcd.ie/chaplaincy
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The Revd Darren McCallig
Dean of Residence and Chaplain
House 27, Trinity College
Dublin 2
Tel: +353 1 896 1402
Email: [email protected]