CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 28th August 1999
From: The
RCB Library
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Pastoral Studies Course Enrolling
A new cycle of the Certificate in Pastoral Studies in the Braemor
Institute begins in September. The course is filling up and those who
intend to enrol for the forthcoming academic year should do so without
delay. The course is part time and runs for two years under the
direction of the Director of Extra Mural Studies, the Revd Tom Gordon.
Each year is composed of eight or nine sessions per term and takes place
on Thursday evenings with an additional study day on a Saturday in each
term.
The programme offers an opportunity to address some of the key issues
in contemporary society - bereavement, family dynamics, human sexuality,
spirituality, HIV/AIDS, addiction, education, the Church and society.
These topics are explored through teaching by specialist lecturers and
through the insights which participants bring to the programme. The
validation of participants' own experience is an important part of the
course. The course is ecumenical in nature and open to adults of all
Christian traditions. Details may be had from the Braemor Institute,
Church of Ireland Theological College, Braemor Park, Dublin 14. Tel:.
01-4923695; Fax 01-4923082; Email Tom Gordon.
This evening (Saturday) The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey,
will institute the Revd Paul Houston, formerly Rector of Carnalea in the
Diocese of Down, to the incumbency of Clondalkin and Rathcoole. The
Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke will speak on
"Critical Issues Facing the Churches" at the Glencree Summer
School which has as its theme "Towards Common Citizenship". At
7.30 p.m. in St Werburgh's Church, Dublin, the London choir, Pegasus,
will give a concert of sacred music which will include a complete
performance of Fauré's Requiem. Earlier they will sing Evensong in
Christ Church Cathedral, where they will sing the services tomorrow
(Sunday).
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service conducted by
Canon Houston McKelvey, Secretary to the Board of Education, Northern
Ireland, while the Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will visit
Achill Island. In St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, where the Dean, Dr
Michael Jackson, has re-introduced a BCP Matins on the "fifth
Sunday" of the month, the preacher will be Canon Peter Rhys Thomas,
Diocesan Information Officer. In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the
services will be sung by the choir of Coventry Cathedral while in the
Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, there will be a celebration of the
Eucharist for the TCD Association and Trust when the celebrant and
preacher will be the former Dean of Leighlin, the Very Revd Cecil Faull.
In Clonmacnoise the final summer Eucharist for this year will be
celebrated in Templeconnor Church at 4.00 p.m.
On Monday evening in St Peter's Church, Bandon, where the rector is
Canon Michael Burrows, there will be a Festival Eucharist to mark the
150th anniversary of the consecration of the building. The Bishop of
Cork, the Rt. Revd Paul Colton, will preside and the preacher will be
the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, the Rt. Revd Edward Darling.
On Tuesday the Bishop of Meath will institute the Revd Stephen
Startup, from the Diocese of London, to the incumbency of Kells, and on
Thursday the Bishop of Derry, Dr James Mehaffey, will institute the Revd
Geoffrey Wilson, curate of Glendermott, to the incumbency of
Camus-juxta-Bann, Strabane.
The Provincial Conference of the Scottish Episcopal Church begins on
Thursday in St Andrews where the theme will be "New Century, New
Scotland..Old Church?". Among the speakers, will be the Bishop of
Meath who will give two of the keynote addresses on the topics "An
Untidy Kingdom" and "An Unlikely Church".
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