Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 7 January 2006
Courses for Church Musicians
The Dublin and Glendalough Church Music Committee has released details of a short course in music, liturgy and worship which will begin later this month. Entitled ?Living Worship?, the course will run on four Saturday mornings (21 & 28 January and 11 & 18 February) from 10 am until 1 pm in the Church of Ireland Theological College in Braemor Park. The four sessions will explore ?Why Christians Worship?, The Tools of Worship?, The Praises of God: Christian Hymnody? and ?Making it Work?.
The course is aimed at in-post musicians, singers, members of congregations, lay readers and clergy ? in effect, anyone who is interested in the ?what? and ?why? of Christian worship, music and liturgy. The seminars will be led by the theologian, Dr Margaret Day-Denton, organist, David McConnell, and the Revd Tom Gordon who is Lecturer in Pastoral Theology and Liturgy in the Church of Ireland Theological College.
The fee for the course is ?80 and bookings may be made by e-mailing churchmusic-at-eircom.net or by texting or calling +353 (0)87- 668 3998.
Cumann Galelach na hEaglaise (the Irish Guild of the Church) is seeking clergy to conduct services in Irish. In its annual report for 2005 it urges clergy who are already members to signify their availablity to take services and re-iterates its wish to recruit new clerical members. The Guild holds a Service of Holy Communion on the second Sunday of each month in the Chapel of the Church of Ireland College of Education in Rathmines at 8. 30 am and on the fourth Sunday of each month at 5 pm in Christ Church Cathedral. Further details of the Guild?s activities may be had from the Honorary Secretary, Leslie Bryan, 8 Glencairn, Harbour Road, Dalkey.
The Guild?s annual report records that the major event of 2005 was the re-printing of An Tiomna Nua, copies of which are available from the Resource Centre Bookshop, Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines, at ?10; notes that talks were given to the Kilmore Clerical Association and the local history society in Clones; and welcomes additional publicity in the Bord na Gaelige UCD Handbook, the Church Review and the Church of Ireland Gazette. The passing of Téarlach Trinseach (Terry Trench), one of its oldest members, who contributed to the cultural welfare of Ireland in so many ways, is recorded.
Yesterday (Friday) evening, the Feast of the Epiphany, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, presided in Millicent Church at the liturgical introduction of the Revd Kevin Ronné as bishop?s curate in the parishes Clane and Donadea. Mr Ronné has come to the Church of Ireland from South Africa where he served in the Diocese of Natal.
Today (Saturday) there will be an all day seminar for the group which is preparing the new history of St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin. This will be the third such gathering which allows the contributors to discuss their ?work in progress?. At this session there will be papers from Professor Howard Clark on the medieval cathedral, Professor Gillespie on the early modern cathedral and Dr Toby Barnard on the age of Swift. After lunch Michael O?Neill will discuss architecture, Canon John Crawford will speak on St Patrick?s in the 19th century and Dr Kerry Houston will deal with cathedral music. The history, which will be edited by Dr Crawford and Professor Gillespie, is to be published by Four Courts Press in the summer of 2007.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at 3.15 pm there will be an Epiphany Carol Service with candlelight Procession in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin.
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