CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 31st March 2001
From: The RCB Library
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New RE Programme for Protestant Schools
FOLLOW ME a new religious education programme for primary
schools under Protestant management will be launched in Kilternan Church of
Ireland National School, Co. Dublin at lunchtime on Wednesday.
Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, President of DCU, will launch
material for infant classes and pupils from the school will put some of the
material into action.
The new programme is being resourced by the Church of Ireland and the
Presbyterian and Methodist Churches with considerable assistance from the
Roman Catholic Commission on Catechetics. Among those attending will be the
Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare who chairs
the committee which oversees the programme., and representatives from the
other Churches.
The programme has been produced in response to a 1998 survey of all
teachers in Protestant primary schools which found that 95% of respondents
agreed that RE should be taught at primary level and that they would be
willing to teach it.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,
the final Lenten address for this year will be given by Dr Conor Cruise
O'Brien on the theme "Lent: A time of growth in our understanding of
Northern Ireland". Dr O'Brien replaces Mr Peter Mandelson, the former
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Lecture term begins on Monday in the Theological College and in Trinity
College, Dublin, where chapel services resume for Hilary term with mattins
at 9.15 am. The bishops will meet in Dublin on Monday and Tuesday where,
among many other matters, they may consider a recent letter in the Church
of Ireland Gazette which suggested a need for more transparency about
such gatherings.
The publication of a new book by the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr
Richard Clarke, entitled and is it True, will be celebrated in the
Irish Writers' Museum, Dublin, on Tuesday evening when the guest speaker
will be the journalist and broadcaster, Olivia O'Leary.
On Tuesday evening the Lenten address in Howth will be given by Mrs
Gillian Kingston, Hon. Secretary of the Theological Working Party of the
Church of Ireland and the Methodist Church in Ireland, on "Ecumenism -
dead or alive?", and on Wednesday, in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork,
Professor Aine Hyland, Professor of Education in UCC, will speak on
"Discipleship and being different". The final session of Lenten
talks in Rathfarnham parish church, Dublin, on "Faith matters in the
New Millennium" will be given on Thursday evening. The speakers, on the
theme of "The Gift of Human Sexuality" will be Canon Kenneth
Kearon, Director of the Irish School of Ecumenics, and the Revd Paul Tighe,
Head of the Department of Moral Theology in Mater Dei.
On Tuesday the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will
institute the Revd Peter Cole-Baker to the incumbency of Templemore. Mr
Cole-Baker was ordained in 1998 for the curacy of Ballywillan, Co, Antrim.
In St Peter's Church, Antrim Road, Belfast, on Thursday evening the St
George's Singers and the Studio Symphony Orchestra will perform J.S. Bach's St
John's Passion. A concert in aid of Abbeystrewry Union of Parishes
Restoration Fund will be given on Friday evening and will mark the
completion of the refurbishment of the church organ. Peter Sweeney (organ),
Ellen Cranitch (flute) and Helen Roycroft (soprano) will present a programme
which includes works by Bach, Vivaldi, Scott Joplin and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The Sunday School Society Resource Centre in Holy Trinty Church,
Rathmines will no longer be open on Mondays and will be closed for the month
of July. Messages may be left by telephoning 01-4972821.
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