Irish Times Notes15 Oct 16

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

The 15th annual Swift Symposium will be held in St Patrick’s Deanery this afternoon (Saturday). The speakers will be Professor Lucinda Cole (University of Illinois) on ‘Swift Among the Locusts’, Professor Karen Lipsedge (Kingston University) on ‘Domestic Man? Swift and the 18th Century Home’, Professor David O’Shaughnessy (TCD) on ‘Restaging Swift: Theatrical Adaptations in the Eighteenth Century’ and Dr Eibhear Walshe (UCC) on ‘Handel and Swift: An Imagined Encounter’. This year’s respondent is Dr. Alan Downie, Professor of English, Goldsmiths, University of London.

The annual Swift commemoration will be held at Evensong in St Patrick’s cathedral tomorrow (Sunday) when the address will be given by Professor Moyra Haslett from Queen’s University, Belfast.

The Revd Sally Hitchiner, Senior Chaplain and Inter–Faith Advisor in Brunel University, London, will be in Dublin today (Saturday) to run a workshop to look at how best to offer a helpful pastoral response to LGBT young people in a Christian context. She is the founder and national director of Diverse Church, a movement offering pastoral care and encouragement to LGBT and young people and their families. It is hoped her workshop will be attended by all who wish to support LGBT young people, as well as those in need of such support for themselves or their friends. Her ‘Life–giving Response’ workshop will be from 10.30am sharp to 3pm on Saturday October 15th in the Molesworth Hall, behind St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street. Ms Hitchiner will also preach in Trinity College Chapel tomorrow (Sunday) at 10.45 am.

The final round of diocesan synods begins today (Saturday) when the Kilmore, Elphin & Ardagh Synod meets in Carrick–on–Shannon. This will be followed by the Armagh Synod on Tuesday, the Cashel, Ferns & Ossory Synod on Wednesday in Enniscorthy, and on Thursday the Derry & Raphoe Synod and the Down & Dromore Synod in Holywood.

Tomorrow (Sunday) morning in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, the Archbishop of Dublin will take part with Archbishop Laumen Zusevics in the ordination of Imantz Miezis as a deacon for the Latvian Church Abroad. The Bishop of Cork will preach at the Harvest Festival in St Paul’s church, Glenageary, while in the Lady Chapel of St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, the vocal ensemble, Peregryne, directed by Dr Stuart Kinsella, will sing Compline at 5.30pm. In Monkstown parish church, Church Music Dublin will launch the revised syllabus for the Archbishop of Dublin’s Certificate in Church Music in the context of Evening Prayer at 4pm. Present and former students will play the organ. There will be a piano recital by Nathalia Milsten in Abbeystrewry parish church, Skibbereen at 3pm and at 8pm David Leigh continues his Max Reger anniversary series of organ recitals in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin.

A series of three lectures exploring Biblical and practical approaches to global justice begins on Tuesday evening at 7.45pm in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute where the Revd Ron Elsdon will speak on ‘Climate Justice’. Subsequent speakers will be Dr Anne Thurston on ‘Gender Justice’ and Christine Richardson on ‘Justice for Refugees’. This is a joint lay training initiative between CITI and Christian Aid – registration at [email protected] or 01–4967040.

On Thursday evening the Bishop of Connor will institute the Revd Arthur Young as Rector of St Paul’s, Lisburn. Mr Young has been Rector of Kill O’ the Grange since 2013. In Down Cathedral the Dean of Down, the Very Revd Henry Hull, will preside at Vespers as part of the One in Christ Jubilee Conference which is being hosted by the Benedictine Monks in Rostrevor.