Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 18 February 2006
Theological Lectures in Queen?s
Next Monday and Tuesday the annual theological lectures at Queen?s University, Belfast, will be held in the Geography Lecture Theatre, Elmwood Avenue, beginning each evening at 6 pm. The Geography Lecture Theatre is opposite the Church of Ireland Centre.
This year the lectures will be delivered by the Revd Professor Oliver O?Donovan who has been Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology in the University of Oxford since 1982. His subject will be ?What kind of a community is the Church??. On Monday evening he will address the theme of ?A moral community? and on Tuesday ?A community under criticism?.
Professor O?Donovan is one of the Church of England?s leading theologians with a particular interest in Christian social and political thought and contemporary ethics. His books include Common objects of love: moral reflection and the shaping of community and Bonds of imperfection: Christian politics, past and present, the latter written with his wife, Joan Lockwood O?Donovan, also a theologian. The O?Donovans are also editors of the acclaimed anthology From Irenaeus to Grotius: a sourcebook in Christian political thought.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE 1 will broadcast a service of Sung Matins, using traditional language, from the Book of Common Prayer conducted by the Revd Tom Gordon. In Dublin the lecture sermon at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, on the theme ?Why, then, should I dance??, will be delivered by Bride Rosney, Director of Communications in RTE. In Christ Church Cathedral the Cathedral Girls Choir will sing at the Sung Eucharist in the absence of the Cathedral Choir who are continuing their tour of the USA. However, they will return to duty next Thursday when they will sing Evensong in the cathedral at 6 pm.
On Wednesday the Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin. In the evening in Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, the Dean of Connor, the Very Revd John Bond, will install the Revd E.J. Harris, Rector of Ballinderry, as Prebendary of Cairncastle on the Chapter of St Saviour, Connor, in succession to Canon G.E. Graham.
In St Patrick?s Church, Greystones, on Thursday evening at 8 pm there will be a concert by An Garda Siochana Brass Band, with the Serendipity Ladies Barber Shop Chorus, in aid of church funds while on Friday evening at 7.30 pm the parishes of Sandford and Milltown will hold a Dream Auction in St Philip?s Parochial Hall, Temple Road, Dartry, in aid of the hall refurbishment fund.
On Friday at lunchtime in the Church of Ireland Student Centre at Queen?s University, Belfast, the Irish Committee of the Intercontinental Church Society will host a lecture on ?Church planting in the new Europe?. A second lecture, entitled ?Church planting in the new Europe and our wider work? will be given on the following day at 3.30 pm in the Downshire Centre of Hillsborough parish, Co. Down.
Details have been announced of the 2006 Church of Ireland Magazine and Website Competition which is open to those producing diocesan magazines, parish magazines and diocesan websites. Entrants will be judged on overall design and layout, editorial content in relation to readership and outreach potential. The closing date is 31 March and entry forms and further information may be had from the Church of Ireland Press Office, 61-7 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2QH, telephone 028 (048 from the Republic) 9023 2909 The prizes will be awarded at the General Synod which will be held in Armagh in May.