CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 4th November 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Conferences on Marriage and Listening
Advance information is available about two forthcoming conferences,
both of which will take place in Dublin on Saturday 18 November.
In All Hallows College, Drumcondra, the Church of Ireland Marriage
Council will hold a conference for all who are concerned with marriage
and family life. "Marriage Today: A Christian Exploration"
ought to be of particular interest to clergy and those working in the
area of marriage including members of Boards of Social Responsibility,
Diocesan Social Service/Action Committees and the Mothers' Union. The
principal speakers will be the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, the Bishop
of Tuam and Ms Claire Missen from the Marriage and Relationship
Counselling Service. The conference will include workshops on
cohabitation, interchurch marriage, marriage nurture, separation and
breakdown, and second relationships.
Details may be had from Ms Jennifer Byrne, Church of Ireland House,
Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
In the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, the Acorn
Trust will present "An Introduction to Christian Listening".
This training day, which is aimed at clergy and parishioners, will be
given by two members of the Acorn Trust Staff. The Revd Michael Mitton,
who has served as a hospital chaplain in England, is Director of
Christian Listening, and the Revd Sue Watterson, Rector of Youghal and
Coordinator for Acorn in Ireland, has worked with the Medical Department
of Bristol University and is currently working for an M.Phil in Pastoral
Theology related to the care of people living with HIV.
Details may be had from the Revd Declan Smith, Christian Listening
Development Worker, Greengates, Adelaide Road, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
(tel: 01-2807452).
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Annual Citizenship Service will be held in
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Maurice
Ahern, will attend as will representatives from a wide spectrum of Civic
life and the address will be given by the President of Dublin City
University, Dr Ferdinand von Prondzinski. In St Fin Barre's Cathedral,
Cork, the preacher in the series of chapter sermons on "The Bible
and its Challenges Today" will be Canon David Williams, Rector of
Kinsale, while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher at
the Sung Eucharist will be the Revd Patrick Jones, Director of the
National Centre for Liturgy in Maynooth.
The tenth in the series of millennium addresses in St Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin, will be given after Evensong by the former Taoiseach,
Dr Garret Fitzgerald. In Christ Church Cathedral, at 5.30 pm, Abendmusik
will give the first of a series of recitals in a Bach Festival. The
programme will consist of motets and organ works. There will be more
Bach heard on Friday evening when, at 5.15 pm, there will be a short
recital in Trinity College Chapel as part of a "Fridays in
November" musical series.
On Monday the Tuam Clergy Conference begins and continues until
Wednesday. In Dublin, at 7.30 pm in the Swift Theatre of Trinity
College, Professor Jan Olav Henrikson, Professor of Theology in the
University of Oslo and currently Van Mildert Fellow in Durham, will give
a lecture on "Theology, Post-Modernity and Popular Culture".
Prior to the lecture the members of the Church of Ireland Theological
College will dine on Commons at the invitation of the College Chaplain,
Dr Alan McCormack.
There will be an opportunity to hear the distinguished theologian,
Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, from Harvard University, on Thursday
evening. She will be speaking on "Refining Christian Identity in
Feminist Theology" which is part of a series of lectures on
"Creating Identity: Narrative, Moral, Christian" in Trinity
College, Dublin.
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