CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 21st December 2002
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
New Issue of Search
The final issue for this year of the Church of Ireland journal,
Search, edited by the Dean of Killaloe, the Very Revd
Dr Stephen White, is now available and copies have been posted
to subscribers. There is a distinct educational flavour to this
issue with contributions on religious education, reflections on
church leadership formation and a recollection of the career of
Professor Jacob Weingreen.
The aims and objectives behind the new religious education programme
for primary schools, Follow
Me, are examined by Ms Jacqui Wilkinson while Fr James
Norman, Director of Chaplaincy Studies in the Mater Dei Institute,
explores the increasing importance of the role of school chaplains
in a rapidly changing educational environment where there can
be much vulnerability and stress. Pam Stotter questions the traditional
approach to adult Christian learning and propounds a more creative
model for adult learning in the churches.
Two further contributions discuss aspects of leadership formation
in the church. Hugh Burgess explores the qualities needed of leaders
in the church and the roles which they must undertake while the
Revd Tom Gordon, in the context of an ordination sermons, highlights
a number of key aspects of the priestly part of that leadership.
Finally, the Revd Dr John Bartlett, formerly Principal of the
Church of Ireland Theological College and Associate Professor
of Biblical Studies in Trinity College, Dublin, provides an “In
retrospect” articles on the career of Jacob Weingreen, Professor
of Hebrew in Trinity from 1937 until his retirement in 1978, who
is remembered with gratitude by generations of students for his
Practical Grammar of Classical Hebrew.
The current subscription to Search is €13 or Stg£10
(half price for students) and the contact address for new subscribers
is the R.E. Resource Centre,
Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will televise “A Christmas
Meditation on the Icons of the Nativity” by the Revd Sandra
Pragnell and the Revd Tom Gordon with music from Helen Roycroft
and Graine Carroll. The Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd John
Neill, in his capacity as Prebendary of Cualaun, will preach in
St Patrick’s Cathedral where, in the evening there will
be a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols for which tickets are
not required. In Christ Church Cathedral the Archbishop will take
part in the Festival of of Nine Lessons and Carols which begins
at 5.00 pm. Admission to this service is largely by ticket but
some 150 unticketed seats are available on a first-come furst-served
basis.
On Christmas Eve the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in St
Patrick’s Cathedral, which is an all ticket occasion, will
be broadcast live on RTÉ 1. Another Christmas tradition,
the charity sit out in Donegal Street by the Dean of Belfast,
and the canons and minor canons of St Anne’s Cathedral,
will conclude on Christmas Eve. This year, the 26th anniversary,
it is hoped to take the total raised past the Stg£2.5 million
mark.
On Christmas Day the bishops will, by tradition, preach in their
diocesan cathedrals. For the bishops of Kilmore, Clogher, Connor
and Derry this will be their first Christmas in the episcopate
while the Archbishop of Dublin will preach his first Christmas
sermon from the pulpit of Christ Church Cathedral. In St Patrick’s
Cathedral, Dublin, the preacher at the Festival Eucharist will,
by tradition, be the Dean, the Very Revd Dr Robert MacCarthy.
RTÉ will broadcast a Christmas Day service from Whitechurch
parish church, Co. Dublin, where the Rector is Canon Horace McKinley
who is assisted by the Revd Patrick Comerford.
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the
Irish Times whose web site may be found at
http://www.ireland.com
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