Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Celebrating Columcille
Today week, Saturday 29 September, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a day of celebration of St Columcille and the links between Gaelic Ireland and Gaelic Scotland. Beginning with coffee and registration at 10.30 am, the day will consist of lectures, Evensong in Irish and an art exhibition and will conclude with a concert at 8 pm.
The lectures, for which there will be a €10 fee, will be given by Padraigin Clancy (Columban Folklore Tradition), Ronan Sheehan (Columcille Intellectual Copyright Tradition), Nicloa Gordon Bowe (Art & Iconography of St Columcille) and E. Mauri MacArthur (St Columcille a& Iona).
Evensong in Irish, sung by the Cathedral Choir at 5 pm, will feature a new composition by Seoire Bodley, the permiere of new settings of the canticles by Simon McHale, and responses by Catriona Ni Dhubghaill.
At 6 pm Mr Trevor Sargent TD will launch a new edition, by Professor P.L. Henry, of Amra Cholm Cille and open an exhibition of paintings by Brian Ferran and calligraphy by Donald Murray which are responses to the publication, and the day will end with a musical celebration of Gaelic Ireland and Gaelic Scotland featuring Cor Chuil Aodha, Mary Smith, Macdara O Conaola and the Scottish Gaelic Psalm Singers.
Full details may be had from [email protected] or by telephoning 01-4538870.
Today (Saturday) the Church 21 Parish Development Programme will have a follow up day in the Isaacs Hotel, Dublin, beginning at 10. 30 am, when representatives from 34 parishes will share ideas and experiences, while in Taney Parish Centre at 2pm the speaker at the Open Christian Network will be Peter Rollins on ‘Towards a Church Beyond Belief’. At 8pm in Monkstown parish church there will be a concert by the parish choir, directed by Siobhan Kilkelly, in aid of the choir’s forthcoming tour to Germany where they will sing in Zehdenick, a town east of Berlin.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Olive Henderson to the incumbency of Rathdrum where she has served since 2004. In St Fethlimidh’s Cathedral, Kilmore, Choral Matins at 10.24 am will be sung by the Lindsay Singers and broadcast on RTE Radio 1. The choir will also sing at the Harvest Festival in St Patrick’s Church, Ballintemple, at 3.30 pm, and will give a concert at 8pm in St Tighernach’s Church, Clones, in memory of the late rector, Dr Robin Wakely and in aid of the Irish Cancer Society.
At Evensong tomorrow (Sunday) in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a Commemoration of the Battle of Britain at which the Revd C.S. Webb, RAF Chaplain, Aldergrove, will preach while 4pm in St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal, a new organ, acquired from the Diocese of Bristol, will be dedicated by the Bishop of Cork during Evensong which will be sung by the Clerks Choral directed by Ian Sexton.
On Tuesday the Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Representative Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin. In the evening, at 8pm, in St John the Baptist’s Church, Clontarf, the Mothers’ Union Diocesan Festival Service will be held at which the preacher will be the Bishop of Tuam, who is Chaplain to the Mothers’ Union.
On Friday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd John Tanner to the incumbency of Tullow in succession to the Revd Cecil Bryan who has retired from the stipendiary ministry. Mt Tanner has been curate in Taney since his ordination in 2003.