CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 26th August 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Celebrating Ten Years of Women Priests
Next weekend will see the beginning of a short period of celebration
to mark a decade of women priests in the Church of Ireland.
On Sunday 3 September at 8.00 pm there will be a celebration of the
Eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at which the Archbishop of
Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will preside. The celebrant will be Canon
Ginnie Kennerley, Rector of Narraghmore and Timolin, and the preacher
will be the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames. All, women and men,
lay and ordained, are welcome to attend this service which will be
followed by a reception in the newly restored cathedral crypt.
On the following Monday and Tuesday there will be a conference in the
Church of Ireland Theological College for all women who are ordained and
for those women who are in training for ordination. The key note address
will be given by the theologian, Mrs Anne Thurston. Other contributors
will include Canon Kenneth Kearon, Director of the Irish School of
Ecumenics, the Revd Katherine Meyer, Presbyterian Chaplain in Trinity
College, and Sr Una Agnew, Lecturer in Spirituality in Miltown Park.
Further information may be had from the Revd Anne Taylor and
the Revd Susan Green.
There are some 500 stipendiary clergy in the Church of Ireland. Of
these fifty-eight are women, thirty-three of whom are stipendiary clergy
and twenty-five of whom are auxiliaries. Another fourteen women are in
training for the stipendiary ministry and a further thirteen for the
auxiliary ministry. Only two cathedral chapters, Christ Church, Dublin,
and St Anne, Belfast, have woman canons.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise a celebration of the
Eucharist, with baptism, from Kilternan Parish Church where the rector
is Canon David Moynan. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the services
will be sung by The Pilgrim Singers while in St Patrick's Cathedral the
visiting choir will be from Oriel College, Oxford. The Bishop of Cork,
the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will visit Little Island while in Dublin the
Chaplain of Trinity College, Dr Alan McCormack, will celebrate the
Eucharist and preach at the annual Alumni Service in the College Chapel.
At 4.00 pm in St Doulagh's Church, Malahide Road, Balgriffin, the
Friends of St Doulagh's will hold an ecumenical Songs of Praise Service.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on Tuesday there will be a
lunchtime concert by the Cronenberger Mannerchor from Wuppertal in
Germany. On Wednesday evening the Cathedral will host a recital of organ
duets by Maureen McAllister and Robin Jackson, a husband and wife team,
both of whom are Fellows of the Royal College of Organists.
On Thursday evening in Newcastle Parish Church, Co. Wicklow, the
Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd William Bennett to the
incumbency of Newcastle and Newtownmountkennedy with Calary. Mr Bennett,
who was ordained in 1990 for the curacy of St Nicholas', Carrickfergus,
has been Rector of Lisnaskea in Co. Fermanagh since 1993.
On Friday the Revd Lynda Peilow begins work as the curate of Canon
Adrian Empey in the Dublin parishes of St Ann with St Mark and St
Stephen. Ms Peilow was ordained in 1997 for the curacy of Castleknock
where she began her clerical career under the guidance of the present
Bishop of Cork.
A date for the diary of bibliophiles is Saturday 9 September when the
Cashel Book Fair will be held. The Fair will be held in the Deanery
School, Old Road, Cashel, and the event will be in aid of the Bolton
Library. Enquiries may be made by telephoning 062-61944.
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the Irish
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