Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Magazine, Website and Social Media Competition
The Central Communications Board’s annual Magazine, Website and Social Media Competition is now open and entries are invited from Church of Ireland parishes, dioceses and associated organisations as well as individuals whose social media activity clearly relates to Church activity/outreach/witness. Quality of presentation, strength of content and outreach potential are once again to be the standards of excellence against which entries will be judged. The closing date is Friday 15th April 2016. Winners will be announced at the General Synod in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, in May.
Parish and diocesan magazines are important for the exchange of news and views across Church communities and printed media continues to play a vital role within the life of the Church of Ireland. In addition, websites are now firmly established as vehicles which allow the wider community to know about and participate in the life of the Church, whether in parishes, dioceses or organisations, as well as helping ‘internal communications’ by providing the hub for information and enabling increasing interaction. Beyond this, social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, E–zines, Flickr, along with Vimeo and YouTube video content and blogs create two–way platforms for communications, providing a potentially vast audience and offering innovative ways to assist in the Church’s ministry.
Full details may be had from Peter Cheney, Church of Ireland Press Office at [email protected] or 028 9082 8882 (N.I.)/048 9082 8882(RoI).
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Armagh will preach in Mullabrack and Killuney for Palm Sunday. In the afternoon Edwin Gray will give an organ recital in St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, at 4.15pm. In St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, at 5pm, there will be a performance of music for Holy Week, entitled ‘Lacrimosa’, featuring organist, David Leigh, tenor, Eoin Hynes and the Collegium Chamber Choir from Galway, all directed by Mark Duley. This performance will also be presented by Music for Galway in St Nicholas’ Collegiate church on Good Friday.
On Monday evening at 8pm in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, there will be a Come and Sing performance of John Stainer’s Crucifixion led by the cathedral choir directed by Ian Keatley. This is in aid of the cathedral’s project to raise €10,000 for the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza.
In St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, on Wednesday at lunchtime Peter Barley will give a special organ recital for Holy Week which will include music by J.S. Bach.
At 1pm on Thursday in the Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, there will be talk by Dr Martin Maguire on ‘Dublin Protestants and the Easter Rising’. The Unitarian community will continue their Good Friday tradition of reading the names of more than 3,500 people who died in the Northern Ireland conflict and this year, led by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, will also read the names of the 482 people who died in Easter Week 1916.
On Friday RTE will televise a Good Friday liturgy from St Bartholomew’s church, Dublin, at 3pm. The Bishop of Limerick will lead the Three Hour Devotions in St Mary’s cathedral, while in St Ann’s church, Dublin, the former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, will speak at the Three Hour Service which begins at 12 noon. In St George’s church, Belfast, the Good Friday speaker will be the Rt Revd Alan Harper, formerly Archbishop of Armagh. At 8pm in Christ Church cathedral, Waterford, the Cathedral Choir, directed by Eric Sweeny will sing music from Rachmaninov’s Vespers by candlelight.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’