CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 9th June 2001
From: The RCB Library
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Ordination Season Begins
The season of ordinations has begun and by the end of June twenty-seven
deacons will have been made and thirteen deacons will have been raised to
the priesthood. Of these, ten deacons and four priests will serve in the
auxiliary ministry.
Writing in the Church of Ireland Ordination Newsletter 2001 the
Central Director of Ordinands, Canon Cecil Hyland, notes that it is
encouraging that the number of candidates for ordination has remained
reasonably constant. However, he warns that that it is especially important
at present to encourage and foster vocations for, due to the foot and mouth
crisis, the annual Vocations Conference had to be cancelled and only one
Selection Conference will be held this year.
Tomorrow, Trinity Sunday, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will ordain
Robert Heaney and Hazel Scully to the diaconate while the Bishop of Cashel
and Ossory will ordain Paul Neiland as a deacon and raise the Revd Michael
Johnston, curate in St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, to the priesthood. On
Monday, the Feast of St Barnabas, in St Columb's Cathedral, the Bishop of
Derry and Raphoe will ordain Ivan Dinsmore and Irene Lyttle to the
diaconate.
Today (Saturday) the Cork, Cloyne and Ross Diocesan Synod will be
held in Kinsale and will be preceded by a celebration of the Eucharist in St
Multose's Church.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Parish Eucharist from
Waterford Cathedral where the Dean is the Very Revd Peter Barrett. The
former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, will be the celebrant at the
11.00 am Eucharist in Belfast Cathedral where the preacher will be the Very
Revd Anders Eckardal from the Diocese of Linkoping in Sweden with which the
Diocese of Connor is linked. The Trinity Sunday preacher in St Fin Barre's
Cathedral, Cork, will be the Revd Jerry Drino from the Episcopal Church of
the USA, who is visiting Ireland under the auspices of USPG, while in Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Dean of Norwich, the Very Revd Stephen
Platten, will preach at the Patronal Festival Eucharist. Dr Platten will
also preach in the afternoon at the Friends Festival Service in St Patrick's
Cathedral where on Wednesday the evening organ recital will be given by
Jeffrey Makinson, Assistant Organist of Manchester Cathedral.
The summer season of services at 4.00 pm each Sunday has begun in
Clonmacnoise where the annual Open Air Service has been fixed for Sunday 29
July.
From Wednesday until next Saturday the Ecumenical Society of the Blessed
Virgin will host a Regional Conference in Maynooth on the theme "Mary's
Vision of Justice as shown in the Magnificat". The Society exists to
advance the study of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Church and of related
theological questions. Among the speakers in Maynooth will be Bishop Samuel
Poyntz and Ms Janet Barcroft. Further details may be had from Mrs Margaret
Golden, 52 Windsor Park, Monkstown, Co. Dublin.
On Friday the Down and Dromore Diocesan Synod will be held in Kilkeel. In
Geashill the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will institute the Revd Leslie
Crampton to the incumbency of Geashill and Killeigh in succession to the
Ven. Patrick Lawrence who is now Rector of Julianstown.
Hopes for the New Millennium, a series of addresses given in St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, during the year 2000 has been published by the
Cathedral. Among the contributors are President McAleese, the Archbishop of
Armagh, Cardinal Cahal Daly, Dr Garret Fitzgerald, Sr Cecilia Clegg and the
Revd Peter McVerry SJ. Copies may be obtained from Ms Kate Manning, St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 8 at IR£4.95 + IR£2.00 for postage and
packing.
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