Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 15 October 2005
Swift Symposium in St Patrick?s
The Fourth Dublin Symposium on Jonathan Swift will take place in St Patrick?s Deanery, Upper Kevin Street, this afternoon (Saturday) beginning at 2.30 pm. Some places are still available and so those who have not pre-registered can be accommodated.
This year the theme of the symposium will be ?Swift, Power and Corruption? and as in previous years the event has been organized and will be chaired by Robert Mahony from the Catholic University of America. There will be papers from the Dublin journalist and critic, Bruce Arnold, Ann Cline Kelly (Howard University, Washington CD), Joseph McMinn (University of Ulster) and Norma Clarke ((University of Kingston, London). At the end of the proceeding there will be a response from Ian McBride of King?s College, London. The symposium is co-sponsored by St Patrick?s Cathedral and the Centre for Irish Studies at the Catholic University of America.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in St Patrick?s Cathedral the Annual Service in Commemoration of Jonathan Swift will be held when the address will be given by the author and playwright, Eugene McCabe.
Today (Saturday) the Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Diocesan Synod will be held in the Shannon Key West Hotel, Rooskey, Co. Roscommon, while in Blessington, Co. Wicklow, the Church?s Ministry of Healing will hold a Quiet Day in Kippure House.
In St Molua?s Church, Stormont, Belfast, Paul Clarke from UTV will launch a new CD by the Priory Singers. Let Christians All with Joyful Mirth contains 26 tracks of Christmas music from Northern Ireland. It includes work by well know church musicians such as Havelock Nelson, Martin White, Donald Davison and the Director of the Priory Singers, Harry Grindle, who, earlier this year, was awarded a Lambeth doctorate for his contribution to church music. The CD has been published by Priory Records of Leighton Buzzard in England and copies, at £10 each, may be had from the Good Bookshop, 61-67, Donegal Street, Belfast BT1 2QH.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the first Sung Eucharist of the Michalemas term will be celebrated in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, where the preacher will be the College Chaplain, Dr Alan McCormack. In St Mary?s Church, Athlone, the visiting preacher at the Harvest Festival will be the Rector of Kiltegan the Revd Stella Durand. The Church?s Ministry of Healing will have a Diocesan Inter-Parish Healing Service in Donoughmore parish church, Co. Wicklow, at 3.30 pm, where the address will be given by the Dean of Kildare, the Very Revd Robert Townley.
On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in Taney Parish Centre the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, will preside at the Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Synod.
The third in the current series of ?I Believe? lunchtime talks will be given in the Church of St George and St Thomas, Cathal, Brugha Street, Dublin on Thursday at 1 pm. The speaker will be the journalist Carole Coleman.
On Friday evening in Monkstown parish church, ?Monkstown Miscellany?, an evening of music and musings in aid of the church restoration fund will be held at 8 pm. Writers Eoghan Harris, Julie Parsons, Kevin Dalton, Pat Semple, Olivia O?Leary and Leo Cullen will be joined by musicians Siobhan Kilkelly, Josh Johnston and Antonio Cafolla.
The Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin have appealed to members of the Church of Ireland for emergency contributions to the Pakistan earthquake appeal. Donations may be sent to the Bishop?s Appeal at Church of Ireland House, 61-67 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2QH or Church of Ireland House, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6.