Tomorrow evening, the ordinands return to the Theological College for the beginning of Michaelmas term. Monday will be a devotional day for all the students, and on Wednesday the Archbishop of Dublin will commission new student readers.
Otherwise, the new ordinands will spend the week being introduced to the various facets of college life, the second-year students will concentrate on communications and counselling skills, and the final-year students will have an education week.
The term begins with a full complement of staff and 37 ordinands in training for the full-time stipendiary ministry.
Of these, 11 are in first year, nine are in second year and 17 are in their final year.
In addition, there are 28 students in training for the auxiliary ministry.
On Friday, the auxiliary students will come to the college for a residential weekend, and to facilitate them the RCB Library will remain open until 7.30 p.m.
Today, the Meath and Kildare Diocesan Synod will be held in Wilson's Hospital School, Multyfarnham.
In St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, there will be a concert by the JM Ireland String Quartet, which will be repeated tomorrow evening in St Stephen's Church, Dublin.
Tomorrow RTE will televise a Harvest Festival Service with a congregation from Christ Church, Taney, Dublin, where the rector is Canon Desmond Sinnamon. At the annual Friends' Service in St Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare, Canon Ronald Bourke will be installed as Chancellor, while in Cork, the Dean of Lismore, the Very Rev William Beare, will preach at the Friends' Evensong in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, where the Bishop of Cork will introduce the new Church Hymnal to the diocese.
On Tuesday, the Friends of St Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, will visit St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, while in Christ Church Cathedral, the Archbishop of Dublin will present certificates to those who have completed his course in theology. In UCC, the Bishop of Cork will be the guest speaker at the graduation ceremony.
The Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Rev John Perry, chairman of the Church of England commission which produced Time to Heal, will begin a short visit to Ireland.
On Tuesday evening he will be at a Service of Healing in St Finnian's Church, Cregagh, Belfast; on Wednesday, he will give seminars in Belfast and Dublin; and on Thursday, he will meet clergy in Dublin.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, on Wednesday, there will be a service to mark the final phase of the decade of Evangelism at which the address will be given by Sister Frances Dominica, founder of the Children's Hospice Movement.
On Thursday, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will rededicate St Patrick's Church, Carnalway, after extensive restoration which has been co-ordinated by the rector, Dr John Marsden.
In Dublin, there will be a memorial service for Prof Nigel Kinnear in St Patrick's Cathedral where the address will be given by Dr David Thomas.
The Tuam, Killala and Achonry Diocesan Synod will be held in the Synod Hall, Tuam, and on Friday the Clogher Diocesan Synod will take place in Monaghan.
On Friday, the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will open a new parish centre in Carnew while in Dublin the Diocesan Service for Primary and Junior Schools will be held in Christ Church Cathedral, where the preacher will be the Rev Scott Peoples, Rector of Lucan.