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Petertide Ordinations
The final round of Petertide ordinations for this year takes place tomorrow, (Sunday) in Dublin, Downpatrick and Ballymena, when eight deacons and two priests will be ordained.
In Christ Church Cathedral the Archbishop of Dublin will raise two deacons to the priesthood ? the Revd Ian Cruickshank serves in Bray and the Revd Norman McMaster in the north inner city parish of St George and St Thomas.
The Bishop of Down and Dromore will ordain four deacons at a service in Down Cathedral where the preacher will be the Revd Paul Hoey, Convenor for Mission in Ireland. Denise Acheson will be ordained for the curacy of Ballyholme, Rory Corbett for Aghalee, Robin Harris for Carnalea and Aonghus Mayes for Cregagh.
A further four deacons will be ordained by the Bishop of Connor in St Patrick?s Church, Ballymena. Robert Cotter will serve as a curate in Mossley, Andrew Kerr in Larne, Niall Sloane in Portstewart and Diane Matchett in Christ Church, Lisburn.
Since May seventeen deacons and thirteen priests have been ordained. Of these, nine have been for the non-stipendary ministry.
Today (Saturday) the Friends of St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, will meet for Evensong at 3 pm followed by a talk on anchorites and recluses in Kilkenny by Dr Colman O?Clabaigh OSB from Glenstal Abbey. In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, the Dean will hold his annual Gift Day, which will seek funds to decorate and re-order the south west porch, and tomorrow (Sunday) the Dean of Chichester, the Very Revd Nicholas Frayling, will preach at the Friends Festal Evensong which will be followed by a Garden Party in the Deanery.
The Bishop of Taiwan, the Rt Revd David Jung-Lai, arrives in Dublin today (Saturday) on a five day visit as the guest of the Dublin University Far East Mission. Tomorrow morning (Sunday) he will preach in Christ Church Cathedral and attend the ordinations in the afternoon. On Monday he will visit the CMSI offices in Dublin and give a lunchtime lecture in Overseas House. In the evening he will celebrate the Eucharist in Chinese in the Chapel of Trinity College and on Tuesday will visit the CMCI offices in Belfast.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning in St Patrick?s Church, Dalkey, at 10 15 am in the context of Morning Prayer, there will be a Memorial Service for Mrs Lesley McAdoo, widow of the late Archbishop of Dublin, at which the preacher will be Bishop Donald Caird. In St John?s Church, Sandymount, at 11 am there will be a Solemn Eucharist of the Holy Spirit to mark the 30th anniversary of the ordination of Fr John McKay, Priest in Charge of St John?s. Fr John was ordained to the priesthood in St Paul?s Cathedral, London on St Peter?s Day 1975 by Bishops Gerald Ellison and Graham Leonard..
On Tuesday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Garry Dowd to the incumbency of Glenageary. Mr Dowd, who was ordained in 1986, has been Rector of Carlow since 1990. In Newtownstewart on Wednesday the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe will institute the Revd Harry Hall, from the Diocese of Wakefield, as Rector of the Ardstraw group of parishes.
The 2005 Aughrim Summer School will be held from 7-10 July. This year the theme is ?Finding a Grammar of Consent in the Process of Reconciliation?. Among the participants will be Canon Trevor Sullivan, Rector of Aughrim, Mr Noel Tracey TD, Minister of State, and Dr Donal McCartney, former Professor of Irish History in UCD. Details may be had from Denise Lennon at 00353 (0)90-9686825/ 00353 (0)86-0593687.