CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 15th June 2002
From: The RCB Library
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Ordinations Season in Full Swing
Tomorrow (Sunday) will see the largest tranche of ordinations to the
priesthood this year with ceremonies in Downpatrick, Lisburn, Kilkenny
and
Armagh.
In Down Cathedral the Bishop of Down and Dromore will ordain seven
deacons
to the priesthood. Of these five are full time stipendiary curates
while
two, including the Revd Brian Parker, the Church of Ireland Media
Officer,
are auxiliary clergy. The Bishop of Connor will priest five deacons in
Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, while the Bishop of Cashel and
Ossory will
raise the Revd Paul Neiland, an auxiliary curate in St Mary's,
Enniscorthy,
to the priesthood in St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, where the
preacher
will be the Archdeacon of Ferns, the Ven. Kenneth Wilkinson.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, the Archbishop of Armagh will
ordain to
the priesthood the curate of St Columba's, Portadown, the Revd Donna
Quigley
and the husband and wife team, the Revd Joyce and the Revd Richard
Moore who
serve as auxiliaries in Camlough and Mullaglass and in St Peter's,
Drogheda,
respectively. At the same service Ruth Jackson and John Ewart will be
ordained as deacons for the curacies of St Mark's Portadown, and
Derryloran,
respectively.
The Ordination Newsletter, which is issued by the Central Director of
Ordinands, Canon Cecil Hyland, reveals that a total of twenty-five
priests
and eighteen deacons will be ordained this summer. In addition
twenty-two
ordinands are in their second year of training while a further twelve candidates
have completed their first year. The new selection
process,
which has seen CACTM replaced by the Bishops' Liaison Group on
Ordination, is
underway and it is hoped that it will recommend a further group of men
and
women to begin training in the autumn.
Tomorrow (Saturday) the Cork, Cloyne and Ross Diocesan Synod will be
held in
Douglas. The Dean of St Patrick's, Dr Robert MacCarthy will be in the
cathedral to receive contributions to the annual Gift Day. This year
the
proceeds will go towards the provision of public toilets in the Minot
Tower.
A fund raiser of a different kind takes place at the Summer Sale of
Tallaght
parish where there will be a competition to guess the length of a
green,
white and orange scarf, knitted by Rosemary Kingston and Mary Lucas,
which
has been draped around the church tower in support of the Irish
football
team.
Tomorrow (Sunday) after Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,
David
Leigh, the Assistant Organist, will perform Vierne's Symphony No. 3.
Later,
at 7.30 pm the annual AIDS Candlelight Service of Remembrance and Hope
will
be held. The Most Revd Eamonn Walsh, Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, and
Dr
Tarek Zourob of the Muslim Community, will read from the Bible and
Quran.
Others religious leaders present will include the Dean of Christ
Church, the
Very Revd John Paterson, the Administrator of the Pro-Cathedral, the
Very
Revd John Delany, and Dr Estelle Menton of the Jewish Representative
Council.
On Tuesday the Standing Committee of the General Synod and the
Executive
Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in Church House,
Dublin, while on Wednesday and Thursday the Primate will preside at a
residential meeting of the bishops.
The final recital in the Willis Organ Centenary programme in St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be given on Wednesday at 6.30 pm. The
recitalist
will be Geraint Bowen, Organist of Hereford Cathedral, who will
perform
works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Vierne.
On Friday evening the newly consecrated Bishop of Derry and Raphoe,
the Rt
Revd Ken Good, will be enthroned in St Eunan's Cathedral, Raphoe.
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