The annual Elizabeth Bowen Commemoration will take place this year on Sunday, 14th September, at St Colman’s Church, Farahy, at 3.30pm. The service of evensong, as ever, will be led by The Very Rev’d Dr Robert MacCarthy and the Clerks Choral, directed by Dr Ian Sexton, will sing the service. The speaker this year, is The Very Rev’d Dermot Dunne, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
St Coleman’s Church, Farahy, is closed for regular worship and only opens for the annual commemoration service in memory of Elizabeth Bowen, the celebrated Anglo-Irish author whose home, Bowenscourt, once stood in the adjoining estate. Every year, a distinguished speaker delivers an interesting lecture about her life or writing. Farahy is a mile or so west of Kildorrery on the Mallow Road.
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St Fin Barre’s Cathedral will host five organists during the month of August. Each Friday at 1.10pm there will be a recital lasting for around 50 minutes in the cathedral, and audience members will be able to see the performer in detail on the screen in the nave. Joseph Ripka from Oklahoma, USA will begin the series on 1st August with music by Americans Stephen Paulus and Calvin Hampton, and by the French composers Litaize and Alain.Â
Last Sunday, 13th July 2025, Bishop Deon Johnson was the preacher for the popular Compline Service at St Brendan’s Church, Crookhaven. Bishop Johnson is currently a guest of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, and is spending part of his sabbatical in Schull.
The Rev. Terry Mitchell and the Right Rev. Deon Johnson
The most southerly chapel in Ireland, St Brendan’s Church in Crookhaven, resumed its late-evening service of Compline every Sunday in July and August. The services will begin at 8.30pm and the small stone chapel, which was built in 1717, welcomes all denominations and anyone who is on holidays or visiting West Cork. Following is the list of guest preacher for each upcoming service in 2025:
July 20th: the Very Rev. Cliff Jeffers (Dean of Ross)
July 27th: the Rev. Damien O’Cathain (Rector of Castlepollard & Oldcastle Union)
August 3rd: Baroness Julia Neuberger (Member of the House of Lords and retired senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue)
August 10th: the Rev. Canon Denis McCarthy (Bandon Union)
August 17th: the Very Revd. Chris Peters (Retired Dean of Ross)
August 24th: the Rev. Gary Philbrick (Vicar, St Paul’s, Weston-super-Mare)
August 31st: Denise Stobart (Doctoral Researcher at University College Cork)
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On Sunday, 13th July 2025, during Evensong in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Dr Paul Colton, licensed Dr Christopher Ashley as Reader to serve in the diocese. Chris has completed a courses approved by the House of Bishops and was presented to the Bishop by the Ven. Andrew Orr, Archdeacon of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. Chris was joined for the occasion by his wife, the Rev. Elise Hanley, and clergy and lay people from across the Diocese.
The Very Rev. Nigel Dunne, Dean of Cork, Dr Christopher Ashley, newly licensed Diocesan Lay Reader, the Right Rev. Dr Paul Colton, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, and the Ven. Andrew Orr, Archdeacon of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
The Right Rev. Dr Deon K. Johnson, Bishop of Missouri arrived in the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross last Wednesday to spend part of his sabbatical in Schull, County Cork where, as guests of the Diocese, he will continue to write his book. On Thursday, 10th July 2025, Bishop Johnson was welcomed by members of the Diocese, clergy and laity, for lunch at Garryduff Sports Centre, and he later gave a talk about his work in the Diocese of Missouri.
Bishop and Mrs Colton met the Bishop at Lambeth 2022 where, as guests of the Archbishop of Canterbury at lunch at Lambeth Palace, they found they were seated together. They kept in touch and met up in St Louis, Missouri later that year.
Bishop Colton said:
Bishop Deon had so many insights and practical experience of parish renewal and growth, particularly in the area of children and family ministry which I was also encouraging Cork, Cloyne and Ross to focus on, that I said to him ‘you must come over and talk to us about these things.’ I am thrilled he did come and spoke to us in such an inspirational and challenging way.
Originally from a small village on the Caribbean Island of Barbados, Deon Kevin Johnson was consecrated as the 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri on June 13, 2020, at Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis. The Episcopal Diocese of Missouri is an inclusive community of faith, made up of nearly 10,000 people in 41+ churches and missions in eastern and central Missouri, a Diocese similar in population size to Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
On Sunday, 13th July 2025, Bishop Deon will preach at Compline at St Brendan the Navigator, Crookhaven.
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