Irish Times Notes
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New Youth Initiative in Dublin & Glendalough
The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, has announced the appointment of Gregory Fromholz to the position of Director of the Diocesan Youth Initiative which is to be called 3Rock. The appointment is one of the key recommendation of the Diocesan Forum of 2001. The Archbishop has said that the appointment to this vital position of someone who brings a wealth of experience of working with young people, an understanding of their needs, and an ability to interpret effectively different settings, opens a new exciting chapter for the dioceses.
Gregory Fromholz’s formative years were spent in the United States but he and his family now live in Co. Wicklow. He has twelve years experience, mostly in Dublin, of working with young people in the 12 to 24 age group. He has created youth programmes for churches of different denominations including school retreats, contemporary music and worship events and evangelistic work. He has set up well known Dublin based youth events such as Xposure and has been a creative influence in Summer Madness, now a well established Church of Ireland youth event.
He may be contacted atDublin Youth Officer or at 01-473 5100.
Tomorrow morning RTÉ will broadcast a Harvest Thanksgiving Service with the Revd Olive Donohoe and the parishioners of Mountmellick. In Kilbixy the parish church will be re-dedicated after its refurbishment, when the preacher will be the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, the Most Revd Richard Clarke. In St Paul’s Church, Glenageary, the Revd Maria Widermark begins a year’s assignment as curate of the Ven Gordon Linney. She is a priest of the Swedish Lutheran Church and her appointment to Glenageary is one of the fruits of the Porvoo Agreement under which the Church of Ireland and the Swedish Lutheran Church are in communion. In the evening St Paul’s will host a joint service for Methodists and Anglicans in the Dun Laoghaire area to celebrate the Anglican-Methodist Covenant: the preacher will be the Revd Dudley Levistone Cooney. The choir of St Molua’s Stormont who are visiting Trinity College Chapel Dublin will sing the Eucharist service there at 10.45am.
On Tuesday the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will dedicate Ulster Ash Grove Memorial Garden at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire in memory of all who lost their lives in the troubles in Northern Ireland. In St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, at 8.30 pm, there will be a screening of the 1928 film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc which will be accompanied by the acclaimed Swiss organist, Guy Bovet.
The Revd Jonathan Pierce, curate of Taney, will begin his first incumbency on Wednesday. In Kilmore parish church, the Bishop of Down and Dromore, the Rt Revd Harold Miller, will institute him as Rector of Kilmore and Inch. On Thursday the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Harper, will institute the Revd Paul Redfern to the incumbency of Kilbride. Mr Redfern has been Rector of St Mark’s, Ballysillan, Belfast since 1997.
On Thursday the Archbishop of Armagh will preside at the Armagh Clergy Quiet Day which will be conducted by the former Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Dr James Mehaffey.
The autumn season of diocesan synods begins on Friday when the Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson, will preside at the Clogher Diocesan Synod in St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Enniskillen. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the annual diocesan service for primary schools at which the preacher will be the Revd Katherine Poulton from the city parish of St George and St Thomas. In Youghal a special conference Through the Ages begins to examine the development of this important seaboard town. Events will include an ecumenical service in St Mary’s Collegiate Church on Sunday 28th September.
The Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Committee for Social Action will host an open seminar on suicide on Saturday 27 September: details may be had from Mrs Mildred Beresford at 01-2885693.
The 2003-04 Bishops’ Appeal Newsletters which are suitable for Harvest Thanksgiving and Lent are now available for collection from Church of Ireland House, Rathmines, Dublin 6.