Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 17 September 2005
Church Music in Belfast
A major workshop organized by the Ulster Society of Organists and Choirmasters will see the return, today (Saturday), to Belfast of two of its most promising singers, David Martin and Timothy Little. David Martin (countertenor), formerly of St Anne?s Cathedral, is now a member of the choir of Westminster Abbey, and Timothy Little, formerly of St George?s, Belfast, is now a choral scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Also taking part will be the Belfast Cathedral Youth Choir and the organist of St John?s, Malone, Dr Donald Davison, who is a former Belfast City Organist, and co-author, with Bishop Edward Darling, of the Companion to the Church Hymnal which was published earlier this year by Columba Press. As well as music there will be discussions on the countertenor voice and on university choral scholarships.
The venue for the workshop will be the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd on the Ormeau Road.
Meanwhile tomorrow (Sunday) the Dean of Belfast, Dr Houston McKelvey, will be in Sweden where he has been invited by the Bishop of Linkopping to participate in the solemn reception of the new Dean of Linkopping, the Very Revd Peter Lundborg. The dioceses of Connor and Linkopping were the first Anglican and Lutheran diocese to form a partnership following the Porvoo Agreement and the Bishop Martin of Linkopping participated in the consecration of the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Harper.
This weekend the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack, and the Revd Patrick Comerford of CMSI are in Rome for the Fifth European Ecumenical China Conference. The theme of the conference, which is taking place at the Pontifical University and the Benedictine Abbey at San Anselmo, is ?Diversity in Unity?. Dr McCormack and Mr Comerford, who are representing the Dublin University Far Eastern Mission, have just returned from visits to China on behalf of DUFEM.
Today (Saturday), in St Fethlimidh?s Cathedral, the Bishop of Kilmore will institute the Revd Raymod Ferguson to the incumbency of the Kilmore group of parishes after which he will be installed as Dean of Kilmore. Mr Ferguson, who was ordained in 1978, has been Rector of Carnteel in the Diocese of Armagh since 2000.
Tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) the Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson, will ordain Mrs Margaret Pringle to the deaconate at a service in St Macartan?s Cathedral, Clogher, while in St Colman?s Cathedral, Cloyne, Evensong will be sing by the choir of St Fin Barre?s cathedral, Cork. In Dublin, members of the Heart and Lung Transplant Association will attend Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral while in St Patrick?s Cathedral the Ven. Patrick Lawrence will preach at the Battle of Britain Commemoration and Thanksgiving Service.
The Second Annual Christian Aid Walk ? a Dublin River Walk ? will begin at 3 pm at Dublin Castle to raise funds for Christian Aid?s work in developing countries. Aine Lawlor of Morning Ireland will officially open the walk which will be led by the President of the Old Dublin Society, the Revd Dudley Levistone Cooney.
On Wednesday the lunchtime organ recital in St Mary?s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, will be given by David Leigh from St Patrick?s Cathedral.
On Tuesday the Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin.
There will be an Autumn Fayre in aid of St Mary?s Home for Elderly Ladies, Pembroke Park, on Thursday in St Conleth?s College, Clyde Road, Ballsbridge from 10 am until 2 pm.