Irish Times Notes08 Apr 17

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

SEARCH Colloquium

Professor Werner Jeanrond, known to many Church of Ireland clergy from his lectures in systematic theology and hermeneutics in Trinity Colleg, Dublin, in the 1980s and early ‘90s, will be the keynote speaker at the Search–TCD Chaplaincy Colloquium ‘Ecclesia Semper Reformanda’ (The Church – always in need of Reform) on Saturday 22 April. Since 2012 Master of St Benet’s Hall at Oxford University, Dr Jeanrond has spent his intervening academic career at the universities of Lund (Sweden) and Glasgow. His address at the Colloquium will be titled ‘Ecclesia Semper Reformanda in Theological Perspective’.

Further lectures at the Colloquium will be contributed by historian Professor Alan Ford, who specialises in Reformation issues, Canon Maurice Elliott of CITI, Bishop Kenneth Kearon, who as former General Secretary of the Anglican Communion offers a wide contemporary focus, and Professor Linda Hogan, TCD’s vice–provost, who will speak on ‘Setting an agenda for tomorrow’s Church’. Responses to the last two lectures will be offered by Kate Turner and Dr Eimhin Walsh. Bishop John McDowell will chair the morning session and the final discussion, with Dr Salters Sterling taking the chair in the afternoon.

The proceedings will begin at 10am and conclude at 4.45pm. Early registration (£30 / €35 including lunch and refreshments) is advisable through subscriptions@searchjournal.ireland.anglican.org or via PayPal on www.searchjournal.ireland.anglican.org

Under the auspices of Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise there will be a celebration of the Eucharist in Irish in St Fin Barre’s cathedral, Cork, today (Saturday) at noon and tomorrow (Sunday) there will be Evening Prayer in Irish in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, at 4.30pm.

This evening (Saturday) at 8pm the Very Revd Dr Philip Knowles will host a concert in St Michael’s church, Athy, where the Welsh male voice choir, Brythonaid, will perform in Ireland for the first time.

On Wednesday in St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, there will be a special lunchtime recital for Holy Week by three teachers from the Limerick School of Music: soprano Emma English, accompanied by instrumentalists Michael Dooley and Peter Barley. In the evening at 7:30pm in St Werburgh’s church, Dublin, Dr Gerard Downey will direct the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Group of Parishes in a service of Tenebrae featuring extracts from Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Lamentations of Jeremiah and Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere Mei. This service by candlelight shall be conducted by the Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven David Pierpoint.

In St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, on Thursday evening at 7pm there will be a recital by the assistant organist, David Leigh.

On Good Friday the Archbishops of Dublin, Dr Jackson and Dr Martin, will ‘Follow the Cross’ from Christ Church cathedral to St Mary’s Pro–Cathedral. The walk begins at 7.15pm. In Derry, the Bishop of Derry & Raphoe will take part in a ‘Walk of the Cross’ as part of the four city churches together programme. The choir of Christ Church cathedral, Waterford, directed by Eric Sweeny, will perform Fauré’s Requiem at 8pm with soloists: Eoin Power (baritone) and Laura Delahunty (soprano).

Dr Kenneth Milne, representing the Irish Council of Churches as Chair of ICC’s European Affairs Committee, has just returned from a conference in Edinburgh which was held under the auspices of the Scottish Churches, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, and the Conference of European Churches. ‘Europe–where now?’ looked at how the Churches can address the context in which they – and not least the Irish Churches – find themselves. Brexit, of course, was on the agenda and the conference is yet another example of how the churches are actively engaged with this issue.