Connor Diocesan youth synod is cancelled; Exhibition Celebrating 350th Anniversary of BCP; Mission Titanic’ on UTV; New Law Term Service; Dublin Faith Leaders Walk For Peace; RCSM Awards; Ordination; Opening of Academic Year Service at Trinity College Dublin; Church watchdog contract to end
Connor Diocesan youth synod is cancelled
A Diocesan youth synod ‘Hear our Voice’ ,due to take place at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Saturday October 6 2012 has been cancelled.
Clergy have been advised in a letter signed by the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, along with Keith Neill and the Rev Peter Ferguson of the Connor’s Energise youth committee.
The letter states: “We have had to recognise that our plans for a youth synod do not appear to have been the most appropriate day or time to facilitate our young people to have their say.
“The limited representation from across the diocese has encouraged us to find another way of enabling this process. It is still vital to find a way to hear and respond to the needs of our young people.
“With this in mind we are cancelling the event of Saturday October 6 in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast. We propose that during the next calendar year we will facilitate an event in each of the rural deaneries to meet with the young people and hear their thoughts.”
Exhibition Celebrating 350th Anniversary of BCP
An exhibition celebrating the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer will be launched on Thursday October 4 in Christ Church Cathedral.
Entitled “the Word that spake it”, the exhibition will be launched in the context of Evensong in the cathedral starting at 6.00 pm. The preacher will be the Revd Canon Dr William Marshall.
“This exhibition celebrates the great heritage of liturgical reform and development and draws together a wide variety of editions of the Book of Common Prayer to tell something of its 350th anniversary journey,” the introduction to the exhibition catalogue states.
The exhibition, compiled by the Rev’d Canon Roy Byrne, will be on display in the cathedral’s Treasury throughout this autumn and winter.
Mission Titanic’ on UTV
‘Mission Titanic’ on UTV on Sunday September 30 at 10.15pm, tells the story of Revd Chris Bennett and his quest to find a boat that can become a floating shared chaplaincy in the Abercorn Basin.
Chris was appointed chaplain to Belfast’s Titanic Quarter when it was still a building site and the story caught the attention of a local TV producer. UTV commissioned the programme and ‘Mission Titanic’ is the result of 7 months filming with Chris and his wife Susan.
Producer Patricia Moore, said: ‘Chris Bennett’s vision of a church on a boat may seem wildly ambitious to some, but for others, it’s the right idea at the right time. Viewers will be inspired by Chris’s enthusiasm and passion and the fact that things didn’t turn out the way he planned adds to the sense of anticipation.’
Don’t miss it on UTV on Sunday September 30th at 10.15pm straight after ‘Downton Abbey’!
New Law Term Service
The Annual New Law Term Service takes place in St Michan’s Church, Church Street, Dublin on Monday October 1 at 10.15 am. The address will be given by The Reverend Canon Dr Heather Morris, President Elect, The Methodist Church in Ireland, Director of Ministry, Edgehill Theological College, Belfast.
The Archbishop will officiate, and with him will be the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and the Archdeacon of Dublin.
The congregation will include visiting judges from Northern Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales, as well as political leaders, members of the Irish judiciary, An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and the Diplomatic Corps.
Dublin Faith Leaders Walk For Peace
Dublin City Interfaith Forum (DCIF) marked the United Nations International Day of Peace with an Interfaith Walk of Peace on Sunday last, September 23).
Leaders of various religious communities, including Archbishop Michael Jackson, members of the Dublin City Interfaith Forum and others gathered at the Peace Park on Christchurch Place and walked together behind a peace banner to the Mansion House, where they were met by Councillor Edie Wynne on behalf of Lord Mayor of Dublin.
This was the first interfaith march to take place in Dublin to mark the International Day of Peace which was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981. In 2002 the General Assembly officially declared September 21 as the permanent date for the International Day of Peace. The Dublin Walk of Peace was held on the Sunday nearest to September 21.
Welcoming the Interfaith Walk of Peace at the Mansion House, Councillor Wynne said: “The City of Dublin is, for some time now, a place of diversity, a place where religions, cultures and people meet, mix and develop. This constitutes our true identity. Properly managed, this diversity gives us great strength. Mismanaged, it risks weakening us greatly. Information and education alone is not enough. People need to meet face to face, experience diversity and discuss issues with people who differ. Communities need to reach out to each other. Dialogue and exchange between people of different views, cultures and faiths is the glue that will hold us together and enrich us all.”
Commenting on the event Archbishop Michael Jackson said: “Initiatives such as this walk to mark the UN International Day of Peace are important to help build solidarity, trust and friendship in our city. This walk, set as it is, in an interfaith context, shows in a very public way the desire for peace among a wide cross–section of the community here.”
The Dublin City Interfaith Forum whose members include Baha’I, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh communities, works to educate and encourage people of different faiths to dialogue and work together in matters of policy, strategy and action and challenge all forms of injustice and discrimination.
RCSM Awards
There will be a service of Choral Evensong celebrating the success of candidates in the Voice for Life chorister training and Church Music Skills schemes of the Royal School of Church Music in Ireland on Saturday 29 September at 5pm at St Bartholomew’s Church, Clyde Road., Dublin Choristers from both Northern Ireland and the Republic will be present along with the first Ireland Church Music Skills award. The service will be led by Fr Andrew McCroskery and the choir will be conducted by Ms Blanaid Murphy and Tristan Russcher will play the organ.
Ordination
The Ordination to the Priesthood of Revd Martin O’Connor and Revd Yvonne Ginnelly by Archbishop Michael Jackson will take place in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on September 30 at 3.30 pm. The preacher will be the Bishop of Connor.
Opening of Academic Year Service at Trinity College Dublin
The speaker at this year’s Opening of Academic Year Service, to be held in the Chapel of Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 4 October at 5.15pm, will be the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Charles Brown. The service will be followed by a reception in the Atrium. All are welcome.
Ordained a priest in 1989, Archbishop Brown has worked in pastoral ministry in the Bronx, New York City and also as an official with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He was named Titular Archbishop of Aquileia and Nuncio to Ireland on 26 November 2011 and was ordained to the episcopate by Pope Benedict XVI on 6 January 2012.
Church watchdog contract to end
Irish Times – The Catholic Church’s child protection watchdog, the National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC), has said the contract of its chief executive, Ian Elliott, will conclude at the end of June 2013. Mr Elliott will be 65 next summer.The NBSC is funded by the Irish Catholic bishops, the Conference of Religious of Ireland and the Irish Missionary Union. Earlier this month it was disclosed that an internal inquiry, headed by former judge Catherine McGuinness, cleared Mr Elliott of allegations made by the Bishop of Down and Connor, Noel Traenor, that he had been spinning against church leadership…
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0925/1224324360117.html