Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from the Irish Times
Ordinations
Next week, with the imminence of Petertide, the ordination season will be in full swing with ordinations, both to the diaconate and the priesthood, taking place.
Tomorrow (Sunday) in Christ Church Cathedral the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr John Neill, will ordain four deacons ? Stephen McElhinney for the curacy of Kill o? the Grange, Darren McCallig for Monkstown, Elaine Dunne for Castleknock and Pat Taylor for Wicklow. On Friday the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd Peter Barrett, will ordain Elaine Murray for the curacy of the Kilkenny group of parishes at a service in St Canice?s Cathedral where the preacher will be the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Revd Ken Good.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Down and Dromore, the Rt Revd Harold Miller, will raise three deacons to the priesthood at a service in St Mark?s Church, Dundela, where the preacher will be the Revd Dr Christina Baxter, Principal of St John?s College, Nottingham, while the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Harper, will ordain three priests in Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, where the preacher will be the Revd Grace Clunie, Rector of St Nicholas, Belfast. The Bishop of Kilmore, the Rt Revd Ken Clarke, will raise to the priesthood the Revd Geoffrey Wilson, curate in Swanlinbar, and the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, the Rt Revd Michael Mayes, will ordain Ruth Gill, who assists in the Cloughjordan group, to the priesthood.
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening in Mullinacuffe parish church, co. Carlow, there will be a Songs of Praise service at which the preacher will be the Revd Nigel Sherwood, Rector of Arklow. Meanwhile in St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, at 8 pm, the combined cathedral choirs of St Canice?s, St Carthage?s, Lismore, and Holy Trinity, Waterford, will give a concert in aid of the St Canice?s organ restoration fund.
On Tuesday the Down and Dromore Diocesan Synod will be held in Moira Parish Hall.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Wednesday at 6.30 pm the last in the current series of St Patrick?s and Christ Church Organ recitals will be held when Luigi Tagliavini will perform Italian works of the baroque period. The Choir of St Anne?s Cathedral, Belfast, will give a concert in the cathedral on Thursday evening with music to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Tallis and the 60th anniversary of the birth of John Rutter.
On Friday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Kevin Brew to the incumbency of Howth. Mr Brew, who was ordained in 1978, has been rector of Ahoghill in the Diocese of Connor since 1989.
For those who are interested in parish life in co. Armagh a publication, which has recently come to hand should be of interest. Parish registers. Historical treasures in manuscript, by Francis X. McCorry, examines the registers of the parishes of Keady, Magheralin, Seagoe, Shankill and Tynan. Historical introductions to the parishes are complemented by statistical and informational evaluations of the registers and of the vestry records which frequently, in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, were in the same volume as registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. The result is a valuable comparative study of the demography of the areas, of social and economic life, and of settlement patterns with many interesting extracts from and illustrations of the registers and the vestry minutes which reveal much about how Church of Ireland people organized their lives. Copies of the book may be had from the author at 10 Parkview Street, Lurgan, co. Armagh BT66 8QL.