CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 20th May 2000
From: The RCB
Library
Email: RCB Library
Spring Issue of Search
The latest issue of Search. A Church of Ireland Journal is now
available. The journal continues to be edited by the Dean of Raphoe, Dr
Stephen White, but there is a new reviews editor, Dr Andrew Pierce,
Lecturer in Theology and Church History in the Church of Ireland
Theological College, and a new chairman, the Very Revd Maurice Carey,
who is priest in charge of St John's Church, Sandymount.
The journal continues to reflect that rich variety which for many is
the essence of Anglicanism. Professor Fred Aalen, Trinity College,
Dublin, writes on the relationship between Christianity and the
environment, while Canon Charles Kenny, from Belfast, considers some
issues surrounding the vexed matter of sectarianism. There are
contributions also from the prominent Methodist, the Revd Dudley
Levistone Cooney, and from Canon W.J. Marshall, Vice Principal of the
Theological College, on the current state of Anglican-Methodist
dialogue.
Looking to the past, there are articles on the early nineteenth
century Bishop of Limerick, John Jebb, and a prominent lay contemporary,
Alexander Knox, by Dr Alan Acheson and the Very Revd Peter Barrett, Dean
of Waterford, respectively. The life of a leading churchman of the
twentieth century, the Ven. Raymond Jenkins, is reviewed by Dr Andrew
Mayes, Erasmus Smith's Professor of Hebrew in Trinity College, Dublin.
Search is available from the Religious Education Resource Centre,
Holy Trinity Church, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Parish Eucharist from Christ
Church, Clifden, where the rector is the Archdeacon of Tuam, the Ven.
Anthony Previté. The choir of St Mark's Church, Ballymacash, Lisburn,
who have regular visitors to the west of Ireland will sing the service.
In Kinsale the Annual Sea Service will take place in St Multose'
Church where the preacher will be Canon David Williams. Among the
visitors will be representatives from the Merchant Navy Association from
Barry in Wales, and Captain Platt, Harbour Master of Padstow in
Cornwall. Also taking part will be the crew of the Courtmacsherry
lifeboat, and representatives of An Slua Muiri, the Irish Navy, Irish
Coastguard and the Air/Sea Rescue Service from Culdrose in Cornwall.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is National Pilgrimage Day. In Co. Wexford the
Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will lead an
Ecumenical Walk from Enniscorthy to Ferns Cathedral, while in north
County Dublin there will be an Ecumenical Pilgimage starting from Howth,
Bayside, Baldoyle and Sutton. In the evening, in St Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin there will be an AIDS Candlelight Service beginning at 7.30 pm.
The Organist and Master of Choristers in St Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin, Mr John Dexter, will give an organ recital in the cathedral at
8.00 pm on Wednesday.
On Thursday evening in Foxrock the former Rector of Kill o' the
Grange, Canon Billy Gibbons, will speak to the local Sudan Support
Group. Under the title "Kagwada revisited - The Southern Sudan
Today" he will discuss conditions in the southern Sudan and his
recent visit across the border from Uganda.
In St Philip and St James' Church, Booterstown, on Thursday evening,
the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will institute the Revd
Arthur Barrett to the incumbency of Booterstown and Mount Merrion. Mr
Barrett, who was ordained in 1997, has been curate of Seagoe in
Portadown.
The Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, has appointed the
Revd Ronnie Bourke, Rector of Kingscourt, as Prebendary of Tipper in St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, to represent the Diocese of Meath. Mr
Bourke has also been appointed Chancellor of St Brigid's Cathedral,
Kildare, and a Canon of St Patrick's Cathedral, Trim.
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