Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 11April 2015
Re–Pitching the Tent Colloquium
On Saturday 18 April in the Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, there will be a colloquium organized by the Church of Ireland journal, Search, and the Church of Ireland chaplaincy in TCD, with the support of Ecclesiastical Insurance. Proceedings begin at 10am and continue until 4pm
The title of the colloquium is ‘Re–Pitching the Tent: Re–Ordering the Church Building for Worship and Mission’. The keynote speaker is the Revd Richard Giles who will be joined by the Bishop of Cashel, Ferns & Ossory, the Dean of Leighlin, the Very Revd Tom Gordon, and Ms Margaret Quinlan, an award winning Grade 1 conservation architect working in Ireland.
Richard Giles will also be delivering the annual Dublin & Glendalough Theology Circle Lecture after the 6pm Evensong at Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, on Thursday evening. The title of this lecture is ‘Holding the Middle Ground: Following the Anglican Way in an Era of Extremism’ and all are welcome for Evensong, light refreshments and the lecture. He will give another presentation, entitled ‘Smiling when the Shoe Pinches: Celebrating Transformational Worship in Unhelpful Buildings’ on Monday 20 April at 10.30am in St Lasarian’s cathedral, Old Leighlin.
Richard Giles was canon theologian for the Diocese of Wakefield, working with parishes to rethink and redesign their buildings as part of mission strategy. His particular expertise in the design of liturgical space bore fruit in the publication of Re–Pitching the Tent, now in its third edition, Creating Uncommon Worship (2004) and Times and Seasons (2008). From 1999 to 2008 he was Dean of Philadelphia Cathedral in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, USA, where he oversaw the radical renovation of the cathedral to become a place of transformative worship. In 2008 he became a Visiting Fellow of St John’s College, Durham. He now lives in Tynemouth, and continues to work as a facilitator of transformative worship and a consultant in liturgical design.
Those wishing to register for this colloquium may avail of the Paypal facility at www.searchjournal.ireland.anglican.org or send a cheque for €30/£23 (€15/£11.50 for students) to Michael Denton, 10 Dun Emer Drive, Dublin 14. Refreshments are included in the registration fee and prior booking is essential.
This afternoon (Saturday) the re–launched Dublin branch of the Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary will host a talk in the National Gallery of Ireland at 2pm. The talk, by Fr Martin Browne OSB, from Glenstal Abbey, is on the icon, ‘Mary Hodegetria’ an early 14th century work from the Constantinople school which was acquired by the National Gallery in 1858. The talk will also cover the history of icons. The chair of the re–launched Dublin branch is Dr Mary Frances McKenna ([email protected]).
The George Hewson Memorial Recitals begin again in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, tomorrow (Sunday) at 6pm when David Leigh, the cathedral’s assistant organist, will play an Easter themed programme including works by Widor and Messiaen.
On Thurday evening in St Macartin’s cathedral, Enniskillen, the speaker at the 7.30pm Evening Service will be the Vicar of Baghdad, Canon Andrew White who will speak again on Friday at a lunchtime service in St Mark’s church, Portadown. Canon White was forced to leave Iraq last December due to the high level of personal danger and before that he was the only Anglican cleric there.
In Mount Zion Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, on Friday the Archbishop of Dublin will represent the Porvoo Communion at the consecration of Lauma Zusevics as the next Archbishop of the Latvian Evangelistic Lutheran Church Abroad.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’