Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from the Irish Times
Ordination of Deacons
Next week will see the largest tranche of ordinations to the deaconate for this year as seven men and seven women begin new lives in the ordained ministry. Of the fourteen new deacons four will serve in the auxiliary ministry and the remaining ten will be full time stipendiary clergy.
Tomorrow (Sunday), in Dromore Cathedral, Bill Boyce, Adrienne Galligan, Joanne Megarrell and Raymond Rennix will be ordained for the curacies of Willowfield, Seapatrick, Moira, and Killaney and Carryduff respectively, while in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, the Bishop of Connor will ordain Mark Loney, Ken McGrath, Ruth Murray and Robert Simpson to serve in Larne, Lisburn Cathedral, Antrim and Ballymoney. The Dublin and Glendalough ordinations will be in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where the new deacons will be Tim Irvine for the Christ Church Cathedral parishes, Joyce Rankin for St Ann’s, Aisling Shine for Drumcondra and North Strand, and John Tanner for Taney.
On Tuesday, in St Edan’s Cathedral, Ferns, the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will ordain Jenny Crowley and Lynne Rogers who will be curates in Waterford and Ferns respectively.
Next week will also see further ordinations to the priesthood. Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe will ordain the curate of Banagher, the Revd Lesley Robinson, while on Tuesday in St Peter’s Church, Bandon, the Revd Joy Ferguson and the Revd Stella Mikhail will be raised to the priesthood.
Today (Saturday) the Archbishop of Armagh will deliver a lecture on ‘Community Diversity’ to an international medical conference in the City Hospital, Belfast, while in Trondheim the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dr Alan McCormack, will lead a workshop on non-violence at the summer meeting of the Church of Norway. In Dublin, the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will preside at the annual Dean’s Gift Day which, this year, will support the restoration of the south transept window, while in Kilkenny the AGM of the Friends of St Canice’s Cathedral will be followed by a recital by the Cathedral Organist, Malcolm Proud.
There will be an Open Day in the Mageough Home, Cowper Road, Dublin, which this year is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Founded in 1869, by the will of Miss Elizabeth Mageough, the home provides accommodation for women in 36 two storey houses arranged in three terraces around a quadrangle. The houses are independent, affording, freedom and privacy and there is a resident chaplain, registrar and matron. The Open Day has been arranged in two sessions, 10.30 to 12.30 and 2.30 to 4.30, and is intended to provide an opportunity for prospective residents to view the accommodation.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Friends of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, will gather. Festival Evensong, at which the preacher will be the Dean of Guildford, the Very Revd Victor Stock, will be followed by the annual Friends’ Garden Party.
On Monday evening in Belfast Cathedral the Archbishop of Armagh will preach at a special service organized by the Divine Healing Ministries while on Tuesday the Down and Dromore Diocesan Synod will be held in Movilla Parish Church.
On Tuesday evening there will be a concert, in St George’s Church, Belfast, by the Methodist College Music Society and on Wednesday evening the last in the current series of organ recitals in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, will be given by Charles Harrison, until recently Director of Music in St George’s, Belfast, and now Assistant Director of Music in Lincoln Cathedral.
In NUI Galway on Friday the Archbishop of Dublin will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.