There will be a Diocesan Come and Sing Choral Evensong on Saturday 7th October in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral. All abilities are welcome to attend this free event. The event is being led by Director of Music, Peter Stobart with Matthew Breen, Assistant Director of Music, on the organ.
The rehearsal will begin at 2.00pm and the service itself will start at 5.00pm. There will be a tea/coffee break at 4.15pm.
The music will include Bairstow’s anthem Save us, O Lord and the canticles are Walmisley in D minor. All music will be provided on the day, but please email Peter Stobart to register your interest.
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The Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Reverend Dr Paul Colton, is pleased to announce that he has appointed the Reverend Meghan Farr to be the Rural Dean of Cork City. Meghan is priest-in-charge of Saint Anne’s Parish, Shandon in Cork and also chaplain to Saint Luke’s Home. Her ministry as rural dean will be in addition to these ministries and she succeeds Canon Daniel Nuzum who was rural dean of Cork City for many years.
The Reverend Meghan Farr.
Each Diocese of the Church of Ireland is divided into archdeaconries which, in turn, are divided into rural deaneries. The entire United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross is organised also as one archdeaconry, but it, in turn, is divided into four rural deaneries: Cork City, North East Cork, Mid-West Cork and West Cork.
Rural Deans are appointed by the Bishop from among the clergy of the diocese. While rural deans have a particular role supervising the care of church property within their rural deanery area, they may also be assigned other duties by the Bishop.
On Wednesday, 20th September 2023, the Archdeacon of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Ven. Andrew Orr was installed into his stall at St Colman’s Cathedral, Cloyne. The Choir of Midleton College as well as the Clerks Choral sang Choral Evensong under the direction of Dr Ian Sexton. The Rev. Canon Denis MacCarthy, Rector of Bandon Union and Prebend of Donoughmore on the Chapter of St Colman’s Cathedral, read the mandate and the Dean of Cloyne, the Very Rev. Susan Green, installed the Archdeacon into his stall.
The Chapter of St Colman’s Cathedral after the service. From l.-r.: The Dean of Cloyne, the Very Rev. Susan Green, the Archdeacon of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Ven. Andrew Orr, the Rev. Canon Daniel Nuzum Prebend of Brigown, and the Rev. Canon Denis MacCarthy Prebend of Donoughmore.
The Archdeacon was supported by a gathering of family members, members of the cathedral Chapter and members of the cathedral congregation as well as students from Midleton College, where he is chaplain. After the service the congregation, choir and clergy were all invited to refreshments in the cathedral.
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St Fin Barre’s Cathedral hosted Giverny McAndry from the Cathedral Music Trust, UK on Sunday 1st October. The Cathedral Choir was awarded a grant of £15,000 to support singing lessons for Choristers and Junior Lay Vicars. The singing lessons began in September and they are being given by Triona Walsh and by Mary MacSweeney, who is also a tutor in singing at the MTU Cork School of Music.
The Dean of Cork, the Very Rev. Nigel Dunne, Mary MacSweeney, Giveny McAndry and Peter Stobart after the service on Sunday, 1st October 2023.
Cathedral Music Trust and its forerunner the Friends of Cathedral Music has given over £4 million in grants to choral foundations since 1956. Their grants help maintain and develop the work of choral foundations across the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Director of Music Peter Stobart said:
It was great to welcome Giverny McAndry to Cork and to hear her speak to the choir and congregation about the Trust’s enthusiasm for what we do. The fruits of the lessons are already been seen, and the choristers are enjoying the extra tuition and the challenge that their teachers are giving to them.
On Monday, 25th September 2023, the Rev. Martin Steele was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, the Right Rev. Dr Paul Colton.
The cathedral was full for the occasion with visitors from all over Ireland, including clergy and lay people from Cork, Cloyne and Ross as well as from previous parishes in which Martin served.
The Bishop of Cork, Dr Paul Colton presided at the liturgy, and the former Archbishop of Armagh, the Right Rev. Dr Richard Clarke preached at the Service. The Lay Vicars Choral of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral Choir sung under their Director of Music, Peter Stobart, and the Assistant Director of Music, Matthew Breen played the organ.
Bishop Paul welcomed everyone, local parishioners as well as those who had travelled great distances to be there, and the greatest welcome was extended to Martin. Bishop Paul said:
We are here to support you with our prayers and with our love. It is a day of rejoicing and celebration. We thank God for you, and we thank God that you have heard his call.
As part of his sermon, the Right Rev. Richard Clarke said:
Martin begins a priestly ministry today. He is given authority for this – the authority of the Church, but primarily the authority of God. An authority of love, of involvement, and of service. But in seeking to fulfil God’s ministry through us, we are still called to be authentic. Authentically what God has made us – real people rather than a parody of priesthood, just as God the Holy Trinity must not be a cardboard cut-out figure in our mind. Nor must the priest be a stylised stereotype of what we imagine clergy are meant to be like. God deserves better from us. So Martin, people can only believe you and trust you when they know you as you are.
The Ordination Service was part of the Commemoration Weekend for the 1400 Anniversary of the Death of St Fin Barre. “The events of the weekend were leading towards the ordination of Martin on Monday evening”, said the Bishop, “which, to me, emphasises the continuity of tradition stretching back to St Finn Barre, who brought Christianity to Cork.”
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