CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 28 November 1998
New Issue of Search
The winter issue of Search. A Church of Ireland
Journal, which is edited by the Dean of Raphoe, Dr Stephen White, has
been published and is available from the Religious Education Resource
Centre, Holy Trinity Church, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Two of the articles deal with contemporary pastoral
and ethical issues. The Revd Tom Gordon, director of the extra mural
programme in the Theological College, and a practicing counsellor,
discusses the issues surrounding the care of those with HIV and AIDS,
while Canon Jack Watson, formerly rector of Arva in co. Cavan, writes
about the growing concern for an ethical approach to the animal kingdom.
In the historical sphere, the Revd Dr W.G. Neely,
convenor of the Church of Ireland Historical Society, introduces readers
to the nineteenth century periodical, the Irish Ecclesiastical Journal,
and Dr Kevin Cathcart, professor of near eastern languages in University
College, Dublin, recalls the achievements of the Assyriologist, Edward
Hincks, whose compelling portrait hangs in the Manuscripts Room in the
Library of Trinity College, Dublin.
The more recent past is committed to print with the
inclusion of sermons by Professor John Bartlett, Principal of the Church
of Ireland Theological College, and the noted ecumenist Fr Michael
Hurley SJ.
As always the review editor, the Very Revd Peter
Barrett, dean of Waterford, has assembled a wide range of contributions
which provide an admirable introduction to recent publications.
Today (Saturday)in Galway the Annual Christmas Fair
of St Nicholas' Collegiate Church will be held in St Patrick's School
hall, opposite the church, while in Dublin, in the evening, the Draiocht
Chamber Choir will give a concert in Christ Church cathedral. The Bishop
of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will be in Zimbabwe for
the General Assembly of the World Council of Churches which will
continue until 16 December.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service
for Advent Sunday from St Paul's Church, Glenageary where the rector is
the Ven. Gordon Linney. The Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard
Clarke, will preach in St John's Church, Sandymount while the Bishop of
Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will give the inaugural Webster Lecture in
St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork.
In Dublin there will be Advent Processions and Carols
in Christ Church and St Patrick's cathedrals while in Limerick, Bishop
Edward Darling will preside at the Advent Carol Service in St Mary's
cathedral.
In Rosscarbery, on Tuesday, the Bishop of Cork,
Cloyne and Ross, the Rt Revd Roy Warke, will address the Carbury
Clerical Society on the theme, "Lambeth '98 Revisited", and on
Wednesday, in the Centre for Christian Studies in St Fin Barre's
cathedral, Cork, the rector of Bandon, Canon Michael Burrows, will
address the issue of Holy Communion and Children. On Thursday the annual
Sale in aid of St Luke's Home, Cork will be held.
The series of lectures on Judaism and Christianity
continues in the School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies in
Trinity College, Dublin on Thursday evening when the visiting speaker
will be Professor Stephen Moses from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
A new book from the theologian, Anne Thurston has
been published by Gill and Macmillan. In Knowing her place, Gender
and the gospels the author re-reads familiar bible stories
concerning women and brings to them that provocative and passionate
perspective which made her previous book Because of her testimony
so successful.
A publication of a different type, but equally
compelling in its own way, is The Church of Ireland Directory, the 1999
edition of which is now available from the Religious Education Resource
Centre in Rathmines (telephone 01-4972821).
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the Irish
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