Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from the Irish Times
New RCB Library Publication
On Wednesday evening in St Audeon’s Church, Dublin, the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will launch the publication of the eighth volume in the Representative Church Body Library’s parish register series. The Registers of the Parish of St Catherine, Dublin, 1636-1715 is a reprint of the edition which was published by the Parish Register Society of Dublin in 1908 and is long out of print. The editor of the volume, Herbert Wood, was Deputy Keeper of the Public Records of Ireland and was one of a small group of men associated with PROI who edited, to a very high standard, many important civil and ecclesiastical archives and manuscripts.
The publication of the St Catherine’s register is also a prelude to the appearance, next year, of an edition of the first vestry book of the parish of St Catherine and St James for the years 1657-92. This will be the second volume in the RCB Library’s texts and calendars series, which is published by Four Courts Press in association with the Library, and will be edited by Dr Raymond Gillespie of NUI, Maynooth.
The Registers of the Parish of St Catherine is available from the RCB Library, Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14 at 16.50 euro including postage.
The launch of the St Catherine’s register takes place in the context of Heritage Week when many Church of Ireland churches and cathedrals will be open to visitors. In St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, there will be lunchtime talks by the Dean and Canon John Crawford and tours of the stained glass, the Minot Tower, the medieval fabric and the memorials. There will be a display of prints and altar frontals in the Lady Chapel and, on Thursday evening, a concert by the Organist and Cathedral Choristers. In Christ Church there will be daily guided tours, a lunchtime lecture on the history of the cathedral by Stuart Kinsella on Wednesday and today (Saturday) week there will be an open day in the bell tower.
Today (Saturday) the Friends of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, will visit Kilkenny while in Cork the Carmarthen Male Voice Choir will give a concert in St Luke’s Church’s, Douglas.
Tomorrow (Sunday) in St Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher the Bishop of Clogher will ordain Robin Wakely as a deacon to serve as curate in Clones while in Muckamore parish church Darren and Karen McCartney will be commissioned for service with Crosslinks in the Arctic. In St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, Canon Barbara Fryday, Canon Denis Sandes and the Very Revd Trevor Lester will be installed as members of the cathedral chapter. The close links between Glenageary parish, Co, Dublin, and Kisiizi Hospital in SW Uganda will be emphasised by the attendance of Mr Adrian Shutt, a surgeon at the hospital, at the 10.30 service. The parish has substantially funded a new children’s ward and a new maternity ward which are nearing completion. David Barrett, an engineer from the parish, supervised the work.
On Tuesday afternoon the Archbishop of Armagh will commission the Revd Sue Watterson as Director of the Church’s Ministry of Healing at a service in Christ Church Cathedral at which the Archbishop of Dublin will preach. The 49th annual Craigs Quiet Day, organised by the Ballymena Clerical Union, will be addressed by the Bishop of Kilmore who will take as his theme “Being a Disciple in the 21st Century”.
On Wednesday the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will institute the Revd Stella Durand as incumbent of Kiltegan and on Friday he will institute the Revd Michael Johnston as Vicar of Waterford.