Irish Times Notes03 Sep 16

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Autumn ordinations continue

The autumn season of ordinations to the priesthood continues next week and the series of ordinations of deacons intern begins.

Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon, at 3.30pm, in St Patrick’s church, Ballymena, the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Abernethy, will ordain the Revd Dennis Christie to serve as curate in Ballymena and the Revd Aaron McAlister to be curate in the parish of Antrim. In St Columb’s cathedral, Derry, at 4pm, the Bishop of Derry & Raphoe, the Rt Revd Ken Good, will ordain the Revd Suzanne Cousins for the curacy of Moville in Co. Donegal, which is the principal parish in a group that includes Greencastle, Donagh, Cloncha and Culdaff. On Wednesday evening at 7.30pm in St Macartin’s cathedral, Enniskillen, the Bishop of Clogher, the Rt Revd John McDowell, will ordain the Revd Chris McBruithin for the curacy of Enniskillen and the Revd Philip Bryson to serve as curate of Magheraculmoney parish which is based on Kesh in Co. Fermanagh.

In St Gobhan’s church, Seagoe, tomorrow (Sunday) evening at 7pm the Bishop of Down & Dromore, the Rt Revd Harold Miller, will raise three third year ordinands in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute to the status of deacons intern. Lucy Burden, Geoff Hamilton and Johnny McFarland will serve in the parishes of Mount Merrion, Seagoe and Carnalea respectively. On Thursday evening in St Mark’s parish church, Armagh, the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Richard Clarke, will ordain Graham Hare as a deacon intern to serve in St Mark’s and in Trim the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, the Most Revd Pat Storey, will similarly ordain Simon Scott in St Patrick’s cathedral, to be a deacon intern in the Edenderry group of parishes.

Today (Saturday) at 3.30pm the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, will officiate at the commissioning of diocesan lay readers and a parish reader in Christ Church cathedral. The preacher will be Ms Sylvia Armstrong and the prayers will be led by Ms Joan Forsdyke.

Tomorrow (Sunday) following Evensong in St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, the cathedral’s assistant organist, the Revd Dr Peter Thompson, who is also Rector of Donaghmore, will give a recital in memory of the former cathedral organist, Theo Saunders. The programme will include pieces by Elgar, Charles Wood, Stanford and Parry, Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

In Christ Church cathedral, Lisburn, on Thursday evening there will be four installations to the chapter of St Saviour, Connor. Canon George Graham will be installed as Chancellor, Canon John Budd as Precentor, Canon Jim Carson as Treasurer and the Revd Derek Kerr as Prebendary of Cairncastle. Meanwhile in St Columb’s cathedral, Derry, the Revd Malcolm Ferry will be installed as a canon. Mr Ferry has been Rector of the Derry city parish of St Augustine since 2014, before which he was Rector of Clooney & Strathfoyle also in Derry. In Calary parish church, Co. Wicklow, there will be a recital by Musici Ireland (Helena Wood – violin, Beth McNinch – viola, Grainne Hope – cello) of works by Boccherini, Dohnanyi and Schubert – ticket details from Derek Neilson at [email protected]

On Friday the Archbishop of Dublin will be in London for the British Irish Association Conference while in Cork the Lord Mayor, Des Cahill, who is a Fine Gael councillor for Cork City South East, will pay a courtesy visit to the Palace to meet the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross, Dr Paul Colton.