Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 1 April 2006
College of Preachers Conference
Details have been released of the 2006 residential conference of the Irish College of Preachers which will be held in the Church of Ireland Theological College in Dublin from 6 to 8 September.
The guest speaker this year will be the Rt Revd Michael Baughen, who was Bishop of Chester from 1982 until his retirement in 1996. Prior to his appointment to the bench of bishops, he served in a variety of posts in the Church of England including a period with the Church Pastoral Aid Society. He has been a rector in both Manchester and London and a Prebendary of St Paul?s Cathedral. Following his retirement Bishop Baughen worked as an honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of London and in the Diocese of Southwark. He is an accomplished preacher and a noted hymn writer, best known to many for Hymns for today?s church for which he was consultant editor.
The conference is open to all who are engaged in preaching, both lay and clerical. Full details may be had from the Revd Ferran Glenfield at the Parish Office, Kill o? the Grange, Co. Dublin, Tel: + 353 (0)1-2896442
This morning (Saturday) CMS Ireland will hold a Spring Sale in St Philip?s Church Hall, Temple Road, Dartry, in aid of the medical work of the Dr Christine Matthews Medical Centre in South India while at lunchtime, in Christ Church Cathedral, there will be a piano recital by Judith Gannon and Tristan Russcher.
The All Ireland Council of the Mothers? Union will meet today (Saturday) in Castleknock. During the midday Eucharist, in St Brigid?s parish church, the MU Chaplain, Bishop Richard Henderson, will commission Louise Despard-Hilliard as Development Worker for the MU Development Project which is currently operating in five dioceses.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the services in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, will be sung by Priory Voices. The Bishop of Cork will visit St Barrahane?s Church, Castletownshend, while the Bishop of Tuam will preach in Naas.
On Tuesday the Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin. In the evening, in the Knox Hall, Monkstown, the speaker in the Lenten series of talks on ?Why Bother?? will be the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Revd Ken Good, while in Sandford parish church at 8 pm there will be an organ recital by Andrew Johnstone. On Wednesday, the final lunchtime session in the Lenten series in St Iberius? Church, Wexford, will provide a focus to discuss social disadvantage and how it is being addressed in the Wexford area.
On Thursday evening in St John?s Church, Fivemiletown, the Bishop of Clogher will institute the Revd Kyle Hanlon to the incumbency of Fivemiletown with Kiltermon. Mr Hanlon, who was ordained in 1997, has been Rector of Dromore in the Diocese of Clogher since 2000.
In St George?s parish church, Belfast on Friday evening two lectures will be delivered to celebrate and recognize Canon Dick McDonald?s longtime work as a psychotherapist and counsellor. The lectures will examine connections between psychotherapy and religious faith and will be delivered by the distinguished Dutch psychotherapist, Dr Agneta Scheurs, and Professor Vincent Brummer, an historian from South Africa.
Each day of next week, except Sunday, the clergy of St Ann?s Church, Dawson Street, will hold sit outs for Famine in Africa . Canon Tom Haskins and the Revd Joyce Rankin will be outside St Ann?s from 12.30 until 2 30 pm.