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Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 20 September 2011
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Church Music Dublin, which is an agency of the Diocese of Dublin & Glendalough, has launched a third video entitled Essential Hymn Playing Part 2. This follows the success of two previous videos entitled Music, Eucharist & You (2012) and Essential Hymn Playing (2014). This new video covers the basic skills for good hymn playing on the organ. David Adams offers sound advice on articulation and playing the pedals accurately. Examples from various styles of hymn are demonstrated making this video useful to all. It is available to view on the Church Music Dublin website on the following link:
www.churchmusicdublin.org/Essential-Hymn-Playing
Today (Saturday) the Ulster Society of Organists and Choirmasters will attend Evensong in St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, where tomorrow (Sunday) at 4.15pm there will be an organ recital by Matthew Breen, a former student of David Adams at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, who is organ scholar in St Paul’s church, Glenageary. In St Audoen’s church, Dublin, tomorrow (Sunday), at 3.30pm, the organist, Killian Farrell, has organised a Lutheran Harvest Celebration which will feature choir and orchestra performing three cantatas by Bach. J.S. Bach features again on Wednesday when works by him, Frank Bridge and Boellmann will be played by organist David Battle at lunchtime in St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at 3.30pm there will be a Harvest Festival service in St Brigid’s cathedral, Kildare led by the cathedral choir. The preacher will be Bishop Walton Empey and the service will be followed by the AGM of the Friends of St Brigid’s. In St John’s church, Moyne, Co. Wicklow, at 4pm, Revd Dr Philip Knowles will preach at a Bicentenary Festival Service. The United Society (formerly USPG) will celebrate 300 years of service in Ireland with a service of Evening Prayer in St Macartin’s cathederal, Enniskillen at 7pm – the first chairman of USPG in Ireland was St George Ashe, Bishop of Clogher.
In Christ Church cathedral Dublin tomorrow (Sunday) at 3.30pm the Archbishop of Dublin will ordain five intern deacons – Abigail Sines to serve in the parish of Glenageary, Alan Breen for Greystones, Cathy Halllissey for Kilternan, David Martin for Howth and Kevin Conroy for Stillorgan. The preacher at the service will be the Rector of Glenageary, the Revd Gary Dowd. On Monday evening at 7.30pm the Bishop of Meath & Kildare will ordain Ruth O’Kelly as a deacon intern to serve in Mullingar.
On Tuesday the Bishop of Cork will preside at the inaugural meeting of ‘Charting a Future with Confidence’ which is a new strategic planning initiative for the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne & Ross. The Archbishop of Dublin will be among the contributors to a Forum Day organized by the Dublin Council of Churches in Quaker House, Rathfarnham. ‘Church Today; In Need of Renewal, Reform, Re–formation?’ will have as its key speaker Dr Margot Kaessmann, former Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
On Thursday the Clogher Diocesan Synod will be held in St Macartin’s Hall, Enniskillen. The General Synod Board of Education (RI) has organized an Opening of the Academic Year Service of Choral Evensong in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin. President Michael D. Higgins will attend and the preacher will be the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Rt Most David Chillingworth. In St Catherine’s church, Tullamore, the Bishop of Meath & Kildare will institute the Revd Isaac Delamere as rector. Mr Delamere has been Rector of Narraghmore in the Diocese of Glendalough since 2005.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’