CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 4th May 2002
From: The RCB Library
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New Member of Staff for Theological College
The Church of Ireland Theological College Council, on behalf of the
House of
Bishops, has announced the appointment of the Revd Dr Alexander Jensen
as
Lecturer in Divinity.
Dr Jensen, who is a specialist in systematic theology and liturgy, was
born
in Germany in 1968 and educated at the universities of Tübingen,
Oxford and
Durham. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1999 for the
curacy of
St Michael and All Angels, Norton, in the Diocese of Durham.
As a native German speaker with a Lutheran background, Dr Jensen has
been
actively involved in ecumenical consultations particularly between the
Church of England and the Evangelische Kirche in Germany, and has
participated in the most recent Meissen conference. In the context of
both
Meissen and Porvoo he will bring an important European dimension to
the
Theological formation of ordinands.
That such a European dimension in ministry is both welcome and
relevant is
evident from a recent meeting of the Church and Society Commission of
the
Conference of European Churches in Switzerland which was attended by
Dr
Kenneth Milne. A major item on the agenda was discussion of finding
ways in
which the churches could establish more effective channels of
consultation
with the agencies of the European Union. The European Convention will,
in
due course, make proposals for the future structure of the EU,
including
ways of bringing the Union closer to people. The urgency of such a
development is emphasised by the National Forum for Europe on which
the
churches are represented.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Rogationtide preacher in the Church of St
Catherine
and St James, Dublin, will be the Bishop of Meath and Kildare while in
the
Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the Chaplain of St George's Church,
Venice, and former Vicar of St Bartholomew's, Dublin, the Revd John
McKay,
will preach at the Sung Eucharist. In the evening in the Church of St
John
the Evangelist, Sandymount, the Archbishop of Dublin will dedicate a
parish
icon during the Patronal Festival.
On Tuesday the final series of lunchtime lectures in Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, on the theme of "2000 Years of
Christianity" will begin
with an address by Dr Colm Lennon, NUI-Maynooth, on "Recusancy
and the
Counter Reformation". The Bishop of Cork will address the Carbery
Clerical
Society while in Bangor Abbey there will be a lecture by Esther de
Waal on
"The Rediscovery of the Celtic Christian Tradition". In St
Patrick's
Cathedral, Armagh, the Diocesan Mothers' Union Festival Service will
be
held.
The second in the current series of organ recitals in St Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin, to celebrate the centenary of the Henry Willis
organ will
be given by David Leigh, the Assistant Organist of St Patrick's on
Wednesday
at 6.30 pm. In St Catherine's Church, Tullamore, Mrs Roberta McKelvey,
World
Wide Trustee of the Mothers' Union, will speak at an MU Overseas
Service.
Thursday is Ascension Day. There will be Sung Eucharists in both
Dublin
cathedrals and following the service in St Patrick's, David Leigh will
play
Messiaen's L'Ascension to which admission is free.
St Patrick's Church, Carnalway, Co. Kildare, will be the setting for a
public lecture on Friday at 8.00 pm when the Revd Robert Dunlop,
pastor of
the Baptist Church at Brannockstown will speak on "Agony and
Integrity - the
Spiritual Journey of Rose La Touche of Harristown, 1849-1875".
Rose, the
younger daughter of John and Maria La Touche, was a tragic figure
largely
due to her stormy relationship with John Ruskin. She is buried in a
mausoleum behind Carnalway Church where the rector is Dr John Marsden.
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