St. Ann's Church

Comeandexplorethe… meaning of life Lunchtime AlphaExpress StartingSeptember28th2010 in St. Ann’s Church, Dawson Street Tuesdays 13.00 to 13.50 with lunch included [email protected] THEGROUPEDPARISHESOF ST.ANNWITH ST.MARK&ST.STEPHEN CHANGE OF SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES as from SUNDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2010 St.Ann’sChurch Dawson Street 11.15 am St.Stephen’sChurch Mount Street Crescent 10.00 a.m. 2 CHURCH REVIEW ChurCh of Ireland unIted dIoCeses CHURCH REVIEW of dublIn and GlendalouGh ISSN 0790-0384 The Most Reverend John R W Neill, M.A., L.L.D. Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, Church Review is published monthly and Primate of Ireland and Metropolitan. usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish by annual sub scription. €40 for 2010 AD. POSTAL SUBSCRIIPTIIONS//CIIRCULATIION Archbishop’s Lette r Copies by post are available from: Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. E: [email protected] T: 086 026 5522. The cost is the subscription and AUGUST 2010 appropriate postage. THE first question that is put to the newly confirmed following their COPY DEADLIINE Confirmation is this: “Will you continue in the apostles’ teaching and All editorial material MUST be with the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers?” This Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, question comes straight from the New Testament description of no matter what day of the week. Material should be sent by Email or Word belonging within the first years of the church (Acts 2:42). What it attachment. emphasizes is the strong link between faith, belonging and worship. Most churches of all traditions are conscious of a fall-off in attendance at public VIEWS EXPRESSED VIEWS EXPRESSED worship. There are many reasons, not least by any means the prevailing climate Views expressed in the Church Review are of secularism and loss of faith. However there is also the fact that the weekend those of the contributor and are not necessarily those of the Editor or Church is no longer primarily seen as a time for religious observance, indeed the focus Review Committee. has increasingly become sport and shopping! Even those who see worship as a very important part of their lives have tended to become less frequent. EDIITOR Not for one moment must it be suggested that the purpose of the church is The Revd. Nigel Waugh, to fill pews, and there is of course far more to Christian faith than attendance The Rectory, Delgany, at worship. Yet faith without that element of belonging, of worship in word and Greystones, Co. Wicklow. sacrament, can and does begin to drift. This has happened for many almost T: 01-287 4515. T: 086 1028888. unconsciously, and applies to all ages groups. E: [email protected] A large number of churches on these islands have pledged themselves to make Sunday 26th September 2010 a “Back to Church Sunday”. The Church of Ireland EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT has associated itself with this idea. The suggestion is that those who regularly, or Noeleen Hogan even frequently, worship should attend that day and invite somebody to come with them who has lost that pattern of worship in their own lives. This is not ADVERTIISIING aimed at those who have had no connection with the Church (though they are as always welcome!). It is an opportunity for those who once worshipped to pause Advertising details and prices are available and consider if there is something that they can recover. by emailing [email protected] or by Perhaps your parish might take up this challenge? It is phoning Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 5522. Copy should be sent to however a challenge, as what they might attend must be [email protected] or by post to attractive and welcoming, but not smothering! Is there Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, somebody whom you might invite? The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow by 15th of the month. CHIIEF REPORTER Garrett Casey, 2 Charter House, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. † John Dublin & Glendalough: M: 087-2356472. Single copies are available from: • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines. PRIINTIING COVER STORY: The three Sopranos Wendy Dwyer, Kay Lynch Church Review is Printed in Ireland by and Deirdre Masterson at the conclusion of DCG Publications Ireland their concert in Christ Church, Delgany in aid T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. of Delgany National School. CHURCH REVIEw 3 E: [email protected] newman’s beatIfICatIon reCalls debates between anGlICans and vatICan Patrick Comerford POPE BENEDICT XVI visits England and Scotland next month [September] for the first official Papal visit to Britain. The four-day visit begins with a meeting with Queen Elizabeth in Scotland, but for many Roman Catholics the high point of the visit is the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801- 1890) on 19 September. Because of diplomatic sensitivities during the Falklands War, Pope John Paul II’s six-day visit to England in 1982 was described as a pastoral visit. But next month’s visit is a “papal visit with the status of a state visit.” Pope Benedict is to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace and to pray with Church leaders in Westminster Abbey. Other events on the programme include an interfaith gathering in London, an address to civic leaders in Westminster Hall, and a prayer vigil in Hyde Park. Police planning security for the visit are anticipating protests by groups on many issues, including contraception, abortion, gay rights and paedophilia. British Government officials Left: Newman as a young don in Oxford... a copy of a well-known image in have also taken legal advice on a threat by University Church Dublin. Right: Cardinal Newman’s bust in University Church, some groups to seek an arrest warrant for the Dublin... he is to be beatified by Pope Benedict during his visit to England. Pope, accusing him of failing to act over cases leading tractarian his famous Assize sermon in Newman’s own of child abuse. The focus on John Henry Newman is of church. Keble’s sermon was an attack on state a puzzling decree interest both for Anglicans and for many people interference in church affairs, prompted by For many Anglicans, two points will set the in Ireland. Newman was one of the most government moves to reform the diocesan agenda for this visit: the beatification of influential figures in English Church life in the structures of the Church of Ireland, and is now Cardinal John Henry Newman, which is the first 19th century. He came from an evangelical seen as the beginning of the Oxford Movement. step before canonisation or public recognition background in the Church of England, studied at Meanwhile, Newman was gaining a reputation as a saint; and the differences with Rome over Trinity College Oxford, and became a Fellow of as a poet and his edited collection, Lyra Pope Benedict’s puzzling decree last year, Oriel College Oxford in 1822. He was ordained Apostolica, including Lead, kindly light, was Anglicanorum Coetibus, setting out new deacon in Christ Church, Oxford, in 1824, priest published in 1836. structures to receive disaffected groups of in 1825, and became Vicar of the University Alongside Edward Pusey and John Keble, Anglicans into the Roman Catholic Church. Church (Saint Mary’s) in Oxford in 1828. Newman became one of the leading lights of Archbishop Rowan Williams has told the BBC In 1832, Newman went on a holiday in Italy the Tractarian or Oxford Movement, and was that he was “disappointed” that the Vatican gave with his friend Richard Hurrell Froude (1801- the principal author of the Tracts for the Times, him only two weeks’ notice of its decision to set 1836) of Oriel College and his father. He left writing 27 of the tracts. In a seminal exposition up “personal ordinariates” to accommodate them in Rome as he travelled on to Sicily, but of Anglicanism in his Prophetical Office of the Anglicans who want to become Roman Catholics there he became gravely ill with a fever. When Church (1837), Newman maintained that the while retaining many Anglican traditions. he recovered, the weather delayed his return to essential points of Anglicanism are its doctrine, At the time, the Archbishop of Canterbury England and he was forced to stay on board his its sacramental system and its legitimate claims said the Vatican announcement had put “many ship for a further three weeks. During those to be the Catholic Church in England. Anglicans, myself included… in an awkward weeks, he wrote one of his best-known and However, he reached a turning point in 1841 position.” The Times of London went further best-loved poems, Lead, kindly light, amid the with Tract 90, in which he tried to reconcile and described the apostolic constitution as “a encircling gloom. The poem shows his sense of the 39 Articles with the decrees of the Council direct challenge to the unity of the Anglican complete uncertainty and disorientation, and of Trent and the teachings of the Roman Communion.” Interest in the Vatican decree has reveals his sense of groping in the darkness, Catholic Church. increased since last month’s debate in the pleading with God to lead and guide him. Newman was censured by the university and General Synod on provisions for those who On the Sunday he returned to Oxford, 14 was silenced by the Bishop of Oxford. He continue to object to the consecration of July 1833, Newman heard John Keble (1792- resigned from Saint Mary’s in 1843, and after women as bishops. 1866), Professor of Poetry at Oxford, preach considerable hesitation became a Roman From left: Tom Tower and the Quad at Christ Church Oxford, where Newman was ordained; Archbishop Richard Whately of Dublin..

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