CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 23rd September 2000
From: The RCB
Library
Email: RCB Library
New Term in Theological College
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening the ordinands return to the Theological
College for the beginning of Michaelmas term. Monday will be a
devotional day for all the students and on Wednesday the Archbishop of
Dublin will commission new student readers. Otherwise, the new ordinands
will spend the week being introduced to the various facets of College
life, the second year students will concentrate on communications and
counselling skills, and the final year students will have an education
week.
The term begins with a full complement of staff and 37 ordinands in
training for the full-time stipendiary ministry. Of these eleven are in
first year, nine are in second year and seventeen are in their final
year. Three of the first year students are from the Diocese of Connor,
two from Armagh, two from Down, two from Dublin and two from Cork.
In addition there are 28 students in training for the auxiliary
ministry. On Friday the auxiliary students will come to the College for
a residential weekend and to facilitate them the RCB Library will remain open until
7.30 pm.
Today (Saturday) the Meath and Kildare Diocesan Synod will be held in
Wilson's Hospital School, Multyfarnham. In St Canice's Cathedral,
Kilkenny there will be a concert by the JM Ireland String Quartet which
will be repeated tomorrow (Sunday) evening in St Stephen's Church,
Dublin.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise a Harvest Festival Service with a
congregation from Christ Church, Taney, Dublin, where the rector is
Canon Desmond Sinnamon. At the annual Friends' Service in St Brigid's
Cathedral, Kildare, Canon Ronald Bourke will be installed as Chancellor,
while in Cork, the Dean of Lismore, the Very Revd William Beare, will
preach at the Friends' Evensong in St Fin Barre's Cathedral where the
Bishop of Cork will introduce the new Church Hymnal to the
diocese.
On Tuesday the Friends of St Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, will
visit St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, while in Christ Church Cathedral
the Archbishop of Dublin will present certificates to those who have
completed his course in theology. In UCC the Bishop of Cork will be the
guest speaker at the graduation ceremony.
The Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Revd John Perry, chairman of the
Church of England commission which produced Time to Heal, will
begin a short visit to Ireland. On Tuesday evening he will be at a
Service of Healing in St Finnian's Church, Cregagh, Belfast, on
Wednesday he will give seminars in Belfast and Dublin, and on Thursday
he will meet clergy in Dublin.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh on Wednesday there will be a
service to mark the final phase of the decade of Evangelism at which the
address will be given by Sr Frances Dominica, founder of the Children's
Hospice Movement.
On Thursday the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will re-dedicate St
Patrick's Church, Carnalway, after a programme of extensive restoration
which has been coordinated by the rector, Dr John Marsden. In Dublin,
there will be a memorial service for Professor Nigel Kinnear in St
Patrick's Cathedral where the address will be given by Dr David Thomas.
The Tuam, Killala and Achonry Diocesan Synod will be held in the Synod
Hall, Tuam, and, on Friday, the Clogher Diocesan Synod will take place
in Monaghan.
On Friday the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will open a new parish
centre in Carnew while in Dublin the Diocesan Service for Primary and
Junior Schools will be held in Christ Church Cathedral where the
preacher will be the Revd Scott Peoples, Rector of Lucan.
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