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Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Lunchtime Lectures in Christ Church
A series of free lunchtime lectures will be held at Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, this month on Tuesdays at 1.10pm. ‘Of the Cloth’, which will examine all manner of ecclesiastical fabrics, from the dressing of altars to the robing of monks and clergy.
Speakers will include the art historian and textile conservator, Rachel Phelan, who, next Tuesday, will speak about the Myerscough altar frontals at Kilternan and Christ Church cathedral and the links with the school of embroidery at St John’s Sandymount. The following Tuesday 13 February, Brother Colmán Ó Clabaigh, a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey and a medievalist specialising in Irish monastic and religious history, will discuss medieval Irish ecclesiastical and liturgical vesture, and will be followed on Tuesday 20 February by the Dean of Limerick, the Very Revd Niall Sloane, who will talk about post–Reformation clerical garb ranging from ruffs to gaiters. The archdeacon of Armagh, Dr Peter Thompson, will discuss the convergence of ecclesiastical and academic dress on Tuesday 27 February.
Admission is free, and all are welcome. For further information, email the cathedral research advisor, Stuart Kinsella at archives@christchurch.ie
The lecture series is generously supported by the Friends of Christ Church, and is the 33rd in a series which has run with some regularity for 27 years since the first on the Augustinian canons regular in October 1997. It followed on from a series of memorial lectures for former Dean’s Verger, Joe Coady, which ran from 1987–2003, and which in turn recalled the annual St Stephen’s Day lectures begun in 1891 by the cathedral architect, Sir Thomas Drew, which ran well into the 20th century.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross, Dr Paul Colton, will institute the Revd Elise Hanley to the incumbency of Cobh & Glanmire union of parishes. The preacher will be the Revd Meghan Farr, Rector of St Anne’s, Shandon.
On Tuesday the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, will be in Sweden to attend the North European Cathedral Conference in Lund which continues until Friday.
On Wednesday the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd John McDowell, will be in Cork. He will visit St Fin Barre’s cathedral and Midleton College which is celebrating its Silver Jubilee. In the evening he will be in St Mary’s church, Carrigaline, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary. There, Choral Evensong will be sung by the Choir of Saint Fin Barre’s cathedral The Bishop of Cork will preside and dedicate a reredos which has been relocated, with consent, from the closed church of St Paul, Ballymoney. The Archbishop of Armagh will preach.
In St Ann’s church, Dublin, a new series of lunchtime recitals will begin on Thursday at 1.20pm when Yue Tang will perform Bach’s Cello Suite No.6 in D major.
Applications for displays stands at the 2024 General Synod are now invited from interested groups. The Synod takes place in the Armagh City Hotel on Friday 10 & Saturday 11 May. Please apply to Aisling.Sheridan@rcbcoi.org on or before Monday, 12February. It may not be possible to provide a stand to all groups who apply; applicants will be contacted in March once the final arrangements for the available space have been made.
The Bishops’ Appeal has announced that two hundred and fifty wood–burning stoves have been distributed in the Kharkiv region by Habitat for Humanity Ukraine in recent months. Many arrived just in time for Christmas, and all will keep families warm and allow them to cook simple meals.
Published in the Friday edition of The Irish Times