Trinity College Dublin Chapel Choir in Venice; Laghey Church celebrates 175th anniversary; Summer Issue of Search; Pope says Irish Church ‘shaken’
Trinity College Dublin Chapel Choir in Venice
The TCD Chapel Choir will travel to Venice this weekend (23/24 June) for a number of engagements. On Saturday evening they will sing at the vigil mass in the Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, commonly called San Pantalon. This ancient church is particularly well known for its immense ceiling painting, ‘The Martyrdom and Apotheosis of St Pantalon’, painted on canvas by Gian Antonio Fumiani.
The high point of the trip will be on Sunday 24 June when the Choir will sing at the Sunday morning Eucharist in Saint George’s Anglican Church in Campo San Vio at 10.30am. The celebrant will be Archdeacon Howard Levett, Priest-in-Charge of Saint George’s. The TCD Dean of Residence, the Revd Darren McCallig, will preach. The Choir will sing music by Monteverdi, Byrd, Shaw and Gibbons. Saint George’s has an unusual history in that the church building was originally the warehouse of the Venezia-Murano Glass and Mosaic Company and was dedicated for Christian worship in 1892.
Laghey Church celebrates 175th anniversary
Donegal Democrat – The people of Laghey have been coming together this weekend to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Laghey Parish Church
The church was completed in 1837 and was originally a Chapel of Ease for the parish of Drumholm.
It later became a parish in its own right in the 1850s as the village grew from a handful of houses to a population of 130 Irish and Scots settlers.
The focus of the weekend is to celebrate the lives of the people of the parish – those who were born, married, died and emigrated during the 175 years since its inauguration. Events kicked off on Friday evening with the annual barbeque bringing people of all ages together for a feast of food, fun and lots of good company.
The children were kept busy with ever-popular bouncy castles, and despite the changeable weather, there was a good turn out and a great sense of community spirit and celebration.
An historical exhibition was held on Saturday. Locals and visitors were able to get a real sense of the changes that have taken place over the last 175 years.
A wonderful display of documents, photographs and slides brought the everyday lives of people from a bygone age to life, with many memories being resurrected as old but familiar faces were recognised and past events remembered.
The weekend celebrations will draw to a close this evening with what Rev David Huss describes as ‘a very special service’.
Later this year, the Harvest Thanksgiving Service and Harvest Supper will mark the close of the celebrations. This is scheduled for Friday, October 12, with the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe due to attend.
http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/community/laghey-church-celebrates-175th-anniversary-1-3962379
Summer Issue of Search
The summer issue of the Church of Ireland journal, Search, which is edited by the Revd Dr Ginnie Kennerley, is now available, with a mix of topical and timeless features.
The Archbishop of Dublin, who last week was a participant in the Eucharistic Congress, considers how much our common baptism enables Christians to share together in our regular worship and witness. The other topical issue is human sexuality. The General Synod resolution of last month is no more than a marker on the journey towards a considered Church of Ireland response to new scientific and sociological material in this area, along with deeper biblical reflection. So it is hoped that three articles deriving from the Bishops’ Conference on Human Sexuality held in Cavan in March will help members of the Church in their further reflection and respectful listening to fellow Christians whose views, and maybe life experience, vary from their own. The articles, By Stephen Farrell, Doug Baker and Bishop Gregory Cameron respectively, cover legal, discussion process, and ecclesiological issues.
The series on Approaches to the Bible continues with an article by Jerusha McCormack, whose recent work at Beijing’s Foreign Studies University has led her to ponder the difficulties of inter–cultural communication, particularly as related to religion. The Dean of Lismore, the Very Revd Paul Draper, considers the ministry of a country cathedral to its visitors, and Tim Hudson writes about a clerical family, the Wynnes of Hazelwood, Co.Sligo.
Pope says Irish Church ‘shaken’
BBC – The Pope says the Irish Catholic Church has been shaken by clerical abuse in a message broadcast on the final day of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18476310