Petertide is one of the traditional times in the Church's calendar for ordinations, and tomorrow, the Feast of St John the Baptist, four deacons will be made and nine deacons will be raised to the priesthood. Of these, two deacons and four priests will serve in the auxiliary ministry.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, the Archbishop of Armagh will ordain Ms Joyce Moore, Mr Richard Moore and Ms Donna Quigley to the diaconate while in St Nicholas's Collegiate Church, Galway, Ms Maria Jansson will be made a deacon by the Bishop of Tuam.
Three deacons will be priested in Christ Church Cathedral by the Archbishop of Dublin - the Rev Avril Bennet, the Rev Patrick Comerford and the Rev Timothy Close who serve in the parishes of Crumlin, White church and Glenageary respectively. The Bishop of Down and Dromore will raise the Rev Daniel Owen, curate of St Donard's, Belfast, to the priesthood while in St George's Church, Belfast, the Bishop of Connor will ordain to the priesthood the Rev Christopher Bennett, the Rev William Nixon, the Rev Louise Stewart, the Rev Alice Stewart and the Rev David Somerville.
This evening in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the cathedral choir will give its annual summer concert. The programme will contain some of the music which the choir will sing during its forthcoming residency in Westminster Abbey. Modern works such as Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir and Giles Swayne's Magnificat will be included, along with more familiar names such as Lassus, Rheinberger, and Charles Wood.
The chapel choir of Trinity College Dublin will begin its tour of the Nordic lands with a concert in Porvoo and tomorrow will sing the Eucharist in the Anglican Church in Helsinki where the chaplain is the Rev Rupert Moreton, former curate in the Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, group of parishes. Tomorrow RTE will televise parish communion with the parishioners of Castleknock, Clon silla and Mulhuddart where the rector is the Rev Andrew Orr and the newly ordained curate is the Rev Sandra Pragnell. The annual service of the St John's Ambulance Brigade will be held in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 11 a.m. and in the evening in Co Meath the annual open-air service will be held at Tara, where the preacher will be the Rev Graham Doyle, rector of Killeshandra.
On Monday the Bishop of Clogher will institute the Rev Dr Brian Crowe to the incumbency of Galloon, Drummully and Sallaghy, while in Co Cork the centenary of St Mark's Church, Kilbonane, will be marked by a celebration of the Eucharist at which the celebrant will be the Bishop of Cork and the preacher the Archbishop of Dublin.
The Wednesday evening organ recital in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be given by Mr Charles Harrison, organist in St George's Church, Belfast. At 8 p.m. the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at a service of thanksgiving in Harold's Cross parish church after which the church will be closed for public worship, and on Thursday evening he will be in Christ Church Cathedral for a liturgical reception for Cardinal Connell.
On Friday, St Peter's Day, the former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Caird, will celebrate the Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College on the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood.