St. Brigid’s Church May Fair Stillorgan at Saturday, 29th May Church Grounds 10.00am. to 2.30p.m. St. Brigid’s, Church Road Rain – No Problem Most stalls under cover! A great family day out! *Plants *Cakes and Deli *Bottle Stall *Clothes *Books *Hats and Accessories *CD’s *Bric-a-Brac *Toys *Aladdin’s Cave *Sweets *Teas *Hamburgers *Smoothies *Bouncy Castle *Music *Games and much much more! 2 CHURCH REVIEW ChurCh of Ireland unIted dIoCeses of dublIn CHURCH REVIEW 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. MAY 2010 The cost is the subscription and appropriate postage. the month of may this year is going to be one of some COPY DEADLIINE change. We will be welcoming the General synod of the Church All editorial material MUST be with the of Ireland back to its former home within the precincts of Christ Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, Church Cathedral. the dean of Christ Church is to be no matter what day of the week. Material commended for the vast amount of effort that he and all should be sent by Email or Word attachment. involved have put into making this venture a reality. We wish them well in this undertaking. VIIEWS EXPRESSED The incumbencies of three parishes in the United Dioceses are already vacant or are about to become such. Holmpatrick and Skerries is vacant with the Views expressed in the Church Review are those of the contributor and are not recent move of the Reverend Alan Rufli to Clondalkin and Rathcoole. However necessarily those of the Editor or Church two other clergy are leaving the diocese. Canon Katharine Poulton, at present Review Committee. Bishop’s Curate in the parish of St.George and St.Thomas, is to be installed as Dean of Ossory and Incumbent of the Kilkenny Group of Parishes. The EDIITOR Reverend Ian Poulton, Incumbent of Killiney (Ballybrack) is to be instituted as The Revd. Nigel Waugh, Incumbent of Clonenagh (Mountrath) Group of Parishes in the diocese of The Rectory, Delgany, Ossory. Both Ian and Katharine have made an excellent contribution to this Greystones, Co. Wicklow. T: 01-287 4515. diocese, and though we are sad to see them leave us, we wish them well as they T: 086 1028888. each venture into new patterns of ministry. E: [email protected] A strikingly different pattern for ministry is shortly to emerge in Rathmines parish. The Reverend Rob Jones, at present Curate Assistant in C.O.R.E. has EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT been appointed Vicar of the parish to work with the Rector, Canon Neil McEndoo. Rob will be working on a ministry of outreach to students and young Noeleen Hogan people in the area, and particularly with those who find traditional patterns of worship and church life something quite alien to them. The post of Vicar in the ADVERTISING ADVERTISING parish, unfilled for many years, has been revived, but far more significant is the Advertising details and prices are available very substantial financial commitment made by the Select by emailing [email protected] or by Vestry, led by the Rector. This is an example of a parish phoning Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 with a sense of vision and mission. I commend this 5522. Copy should be sent to new venture to the prayers of the people and parishes [email protected] or by post to Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, of the diocese. The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. 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Email: [email protected] The King’s Hospital - a school and a way of life tWo IrIsh ChaPlaIns mInIsterInG In CambrIdGe ColleGe ChaPels Patrick Comerford I haVe just booked myself back into a summer school in Cambridge, and look forward to yet another week in sidney sussex College and the opportunity to stay for few days before Christ’s College, Cambridge. over the past few years, I have stayed in both colleges and regularly enjoyed the hospitality of these college communities and their chapel life. Both colleges have Irish-born Anglican priests as their chaplains: the Revd Christopher Woods graduated from the Church of Ireland Theological College in 2004, and was a curate in Saint Mark’s, Dundela, before moving to Christ’s College in 2007; the Revd Dr Peter Waddell, left: the revd Christopher Woods has been chaplain of Christ’s College, who is from Newcastle, Co Down, completed Cambridge, since 2007. Centre: the revd dr Peter Waddell has been his PhD while he was an ordinand at Westcott chaplain of sidney sussex College, Cambridge, since 2005. right: the Chapel House, Cambridge, and has been the chaplain of of Christ’s College, Cambridge… in June the college celebrates the 500th Sidney Sussex College since 2005 . anniversary of the consecration of the chapel. Last year was a busy one for Christopher Woods as the University of Cambridge celebrated its 800th anniversary and Christ’s College marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of its best-known alumni, Charles Darwin. This year is turning out to be busy too as the Chapel in Christ’s College celebrates the 500th anniversary of its consecration in June 1510. Christ’s College received its first charter in 1505, but its story goes back to 1437, when a smaller college, God’s House, was built on the site of the Chapel of King’s College. God’s House moved to the present site on Saint Andrew’s Street in 1448, and was renamed in 1505 when it received a new charter and was generously endowed by Henry VII’s mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. left: Christ's College was founded by henry VII’s saintly mother, lady As a place of education, religion, learning and margaret beaufort. right: the chapel of Christ’s College is in a secluded research, Christ’s College needed a chapel. As corner beside the master’s lodge in first Court. the first buildings went up in what is now First Court, a new chapel was built there too in a secluded corner, beside the Master’s Lodge. This In the intervening 500 years, the chapel of Christ’s College. On 2 February, the new chapel was consecrated by Bishop James survived the Reformation and the Cromwellian Quincentenary Candlemas Compline in the Stanley of Ely, Lady Margaret Beaufort’s era and has seen great change and development, chapel included a torchlight procession. The stepson, 500 years ago in June 1510. yet the original chapel building is almost entirely anniversary was marked too by the launch of By then, Lady Margaret was dead for almost a in tact.