Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 3 June 2006
Christ Church Patronal Festival
A four day Patronal Festival begins in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, next Thursday with Festival Evensong sung by the Cathedral Choir. During the festival there will be opportunities to observe the cathedral choir at rehearsal, to learn something of the wonders of the cathedral?s Kenneth Jones organ, and a rare chance to visit the belfry and discover something of the mysteries of bell ringing. The Friends of the Cathedral will host a wine tasting on Thursday evening and will provide guides for themed tours of the cathedral on Friday..
On Friday Evensong will be sung by the Cathedral Early Music Consort and later there will be a lighthearted evening of music by Gershwin and his contemporaries with the Cathedral Choir. A lunchtime recital on Saturday will be given by the Accordian Clarinet Quartet, there will be a Festival Service of Music and Readings with the Mornington Singers at 5 pm and at 8 pm a Gala Concert of Bach motets by the Cathedral Choir.
On Trinity Sunday morning the preacher at the Festival Choral Eucharist will be the former Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven. Gordon Linney, and the festival will conclude with Festival Evensong sung by the Cathedral Choir.
Details of the events and participants and information on booking is in the festival brochure which is available from the cathedral or at www.cccdub.ie
In the longer term, the closing date for registration for the Summer School which has been organized jointly by Christ Church and Aras Eanna is mid-June. This Celtic Revival Summer School will begin in Christ Church on 7 July and transfer to the Aran Island of Inis Oirr on 9 July. Performance art, music, film and lectures will combine to explore the uniquely inclusive atmosphere of the Celtic revival period in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th century. Among the speakers will be Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe, Professor Terence Brown and the former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Donald Caird. Details may be had from www.araseanna.ie and www.cccdub.ie
This morning (Saturday) the Annual Ecumenism Lecture, hosted by the Dublin Council of Churches and the Dublin Diocesan Advisory Committee on Ecumenism will be held Lesson Park, Dublin, at 11 am .The speaker will be Professor Elizabeth Parmentier from Strasbourg. At lunchtime the recital in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will be given by Sue Hemmens, a soprano lay clerk in the Cathedral Choir with the Cathedral?s Assistant Organist, Tristan Russcher on piano.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will visit Ballydehob, where the rector is Canon Paul Draper, while in St Molua?s Chruch, Stormont, the preacher at the Eucharist of Pentecost will be Dr Alan McCormack, Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin. In the evening, the season of ordinations begins in St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, where the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, will ordain Margaret Sykes, Richard Greene and Robert Stotesbury as deacons to serve in the non-stipendiary ministry in the united dioceses of Cashel and Ossory.
On Wednesday the Cashel, Ossory and Ferns Diocesan Synod will meet in the Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny while in Dublin there will be a recital after Evensong in St Patrick?s Cathedral given by James Vivian, Organist of the Temple Church, London.
In St Macartan?s Cathedral, Clogher on Friday evening the Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson, will ordain Elizabeth Thompson to the diaconate to serve in the non-stipendiary ministry. The preacher at the service will be the Principal of the Theological College, the Revd Professor Adrian Empey.