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Church of Ireland
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Welcome to College. My name is Darren McCallig, and I am
the Church of Ireland Chaplain (Anglican/Episcopal) here
in TCD. You can find details of service times and other
information on our Term Card
which can be downloaded here.
During term there is daily Morning Prayer at 9.15am, as
well as Choral Evensong on Thursdays (5.15pm) and the Sung
Eucharist on Sunday mornings (10.45am). You can listen to
some recent Sunday sermons by following the link
to the MP3 files below or follow Chaplaincy events by checking
out our latest News.
Everyone is welcome at all our services. We are committed
to a faith that is generous and resists the instinct to
exclude on the basis of disagreement and difference. I believe
we can be Christians without laying aside any of our convictions
about the equality and dignity of all people, whether men
or women, gay or straight, young or old.
We are also committed to the Anglican approach of scripture,
tradition and reason. The sacrifice required by Christian
faith is not the sacrifice of our intellect. You won’t be
expected to park your brain at the door of this church!
Our faith may be 2,000 years old, but our thinking certainly
isn’t. If you are interested in finding out more then please
consider joining our Book Group.
But the Chaplaincy is much more than just the Chapel! We
are here to provide pastoral care and support for all members
of the university community. From whatever background you
come, from any faith, or from none, please be assured of
a good cup of coffee, a warm welcome and a listening ear.
I am also available to help prepare members of College for
Baptism or Confirmation and to help make the necessary arrangements
for those considering Marriage.
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Recent
Sermons
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February 2013 - Fr. Sean Healy SMA: "Spiritual Capital: A Social
Justice Perspective"
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February 2013 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Unprotected Texts:
Scripture, Sex and Society"
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February 2013 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Fishers of Men?
Rescuing 'Mission' from the Fundamentalists"
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January 2013 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "The Most Important
Verse in the Bible"
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December 2012 - Emily O'Reilly: "Soul Sisters: Thekla Beere"
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December 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Soul Sisters: Nuala
O Faolain"
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November 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Soul Sisters: The
Canaanite Woman"
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November 2012 - Dr. Cathriona Russell: "Soul Sisters: Evelyn
Cusack"
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November 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Soul Sisters: Etty
Hillesum"
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November 2012 - The Revd Celia Grace Kenny: "Soul Sisters:
Jenny Geddes"
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October 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Soul Sisters: Mother
Teresa of Calcutta"
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October 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Soul Sisters: Rosa
Parks"
Apologies for the sound quality on the recordings
of 30 September and 7 October. The problem has now been rectified.
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October 2012 - Ms. Alice Leahy: "Soul Sisters: Olivia Hughes"
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September 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Soul Sisters: Anne
Rice"
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April 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Easter Faith"
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April 2012 - Dr. Roja Fazaeli: "Psalm 139: You have searched
me out and known me."
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March 2012 - Dr. Zuleika Rodgers: "Psalm 137: How shall we
sing the Lord's song in a strange land?"
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March 2012 - Mr. Patsy McGarry: "Psalm 23: The Lord is my Shepherd"
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March 2012 - Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness: "Psalm 104:
You make the clouds your chariot"
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March 2012 - Fr. Paddy Gleeson: "Psalm 51: Behold, you desire
truth deep within me"
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February 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Transfiguration:
True Religion"
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February 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig:"A Cheap Cure? Naaman,
Elisha and Us"
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February 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "Silence in the City:
Making Space for the Sacred"
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January 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "The Meaning in the
Miracles"
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January 2012 - The Revd Darren McCallig: "The Jealousy of Jonah"
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Book Group
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The Chaplaincy Book Group has chosen a new
title for the new year. Sara Miles’ ‘Take this Bread’ will
be the focus of our discussions. The book tells the story
of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion,
told by a very unlikely convert. Raised as an atheist, Sara
Miles wandered into a San Francisco church one day and received
communion. She found herself radically transformed and at
the beginning of a spiritual journey which led her to start
a food pantry.
The group meets on the final Thursday of
each month during term. The Hilary terms dates are: Thursday
31 January, Thursday 28 February and Thursday 28 March.
New members are always welcome and will receive a free copy
of the book. For more information, see the Chaplaincy website.
To join, contact the chaplain.
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News
7 February 2013 - New
Issue of 'Spiorad' journal now available
5 October 2012 - Hong
Kong Theological College Principal to deliver Godfrey Day Lecture
26 July 2012 - Conductor
and Organ Scholar Appointed
25 June 2012 - Choir
Trip to Venice
8 April 2012 - Chapel
Choir Celebrates 250 Years
20 February 2012
- Lent Series Announced
3 October 2011 -
'Spiorad' Journal Launched
Spring 2013 Issue
of 'Spiorad' journal now available
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The third issue of ‘Spiorad’, the Chaplaincy’s
journal for new writing and art on spiritual and religious
themes, has just been published. The theme of the issue
is ‘Listen’ and the list of contributors includes Anne-Marie
O’Farrell, Marni Rothman, Rob Clements, Roja Fazaeli, Zuleika
Rodgers, Susan Hood and Abigail Sines. There is also a report
on the celebrations held last year to mark the 250th anniversary
of the Chapel Choir. For further information, or to request
a free copy of ‘Spiorad’ please email spiorad@tcd.ie
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Hong Kong Theological
College Principal to deliver Godfrey Day Lecture
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The Godfrey Day Memorial Lecture 2012, under
the auspices of the Dublin University Far Eastern Mission,
will be held in the Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, the Long
Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin from 7.00pm to 8.30pm on
Thursday 18 October.
This year’s speaker is Dr Gareth Jones,
Principal of SKH Ming Hua Theological College (Anglican
Province of Hong Kong & Macau). He will speak about
“Multiculturalism and Christianity in East Asia.” The lecture
will be preceded by Choral Evensong in College Chapel at
5.15pm and a reception in House 27 at 6.15pm. Admission
is free and all are welcome.
A graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge Dr.
Gareth Jones was Oxford University's Bampton Junior Research
Fellow at Keble College, from 1988 to 1991, when he moved
to Birmingham University as Lecturer in Systematic Theology.
After working in Canterbury as Professor of Theology, during
which time he participated widely in theological education
in Africa, Dr. Jones is now Principal of SKH Ming Hua Theological
College in the Anglican Province of Hong Kong & Macau.
His lecture, entitled “Multiculturalism
and Christianity in East Asia”, will focus on the particular
relationship between China's historic Christian missions
and its present identity. In particular he will interrogate
whether the description of Christianity in China as an "emerging"
faith is appropriate to describe the process of Christianity’s
remarkable growth and development in that country.
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Conductor and
Organ Scholar appointed at College Chapel
It has been announced
that Ms. Margaret Bridge has been re-appointed as Conductor
of Trinity College Dublin Chapel Choir for the 2012/2013 academic
year. Mr. Joseph Bradley has been appointed Organ Scholar
to the College.
Margaret Bridge is from Bray in Co. Wicklow and has just completed
her music studies at TCD. She has been a member of the Chapel
Choir for several years and a choral scholar for two years.
In addition to being an accomplished singer and conductor,
Margaret is also a talented pianist and flautist. She was
elected to Scholarship in Music in April 2010. This is her
second year as Conductor of Chapel Choir.
Joseph Bradley is from Lanarkshire in Scotland and is a rising
Junior Sophister in music in TCD. He also studies organ with
David Adams at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and is enrolled
on the Archbishop's Certificate in Church Music course. For
the past couple of years he has been organist at St Matthew's
church, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow.
Dr. Kerry Houston, Director of Chapel Music
at TCD said, "Margaret and Joseph are working in the
chapel at a very exciting time as we are celebrating the
250th anniversary of the foundation of the first formal
Chapel Choir by Provost Andrews in 1762. We have had a very
enriching series of events already this year including a
reunion service on Low Sunday which was broadcast by RTE
when the preacher was our former chaplain Bishop Michael
Burrows. We are planning more events later this year which
leads into the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the
sharing of the College Chapel by the major Christian denominations
in Ireland. We will mark this forward-thinking initiative
of Archbishop Alan Buchanan with a series of ecumenical
events. The College Chapel and its music is not just for
staff and students at Trinity. Everyone is welcome at Thursday
evensong (5.15pm) and Sunday morning Sung Eucharist (10.45am)."
The Dean of Residence at Trinity College
Dublin, the Revd Darren McCallig commented, "We are
very grateful to Margaret, Joseph and all who give so generously
of their time and their talents to ensure the continuation
of our renowned choral tradition here in Trinity. I know
that with this new leadership team in place Chapel Choir
will continue to create magnificent music to enrich our
liturgies and nourish our spirits."
In addition to the regular choral services
during each week of lecture term and various special college
and university services, the Chapel Choir gives concerts
and is broadcast regularly on RTE radio and television.
Trips within Britain and Ireland are organized twice yearly
and more distant travels have included visits to New York,
Rome, Berlin, Hong Kong, Vienna and (in June of this year)
Venice.
For further information on the choir or
to enquire about joining, please contact Margaret Bridge
at bridgem1@tcd.ie
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Choir Trip
to Venice
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The TCD Chapel Choir traveled to Venice
in June for a number of engagements. On Saturday evening
(23 June) they sang at the 6.00pm vigil mass in the Chiesa
di San Pantaleone Martire, commonly called San Pantalon.
This ancient church is particularly well known for its
immense ceiling painting, "The Martyrdom and Apotheosis
of St Pantalon", painted on canvas by Gian Antonio
Fumiani.
The high point of the trip was on Sunday
24 June when the Choir sang at the Sunday morning Eucharist
in Saint George's Anglican Church in Campo San Vio at
10.30am (pictured above). The celebrant was Archdeacon
Howard Levett, Priest-in-Charge of Saint George's. The
TCD Dean of Residence, the Revd Darren McCallig, preached.
The Choir sang music by Monteverdi, Byrd, Shaw and Gibbons.
Saint George's has an unusual history
in that the church building was originally the warehouse
of the Venezia-Murano Glass and Mosaic Company and was
dedicated for Christian worship in 1892.
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Chapel Choir
Celebrates 250 Years
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A Festival Eucharist to celebrate 250
years of Trinity College Chapel Choir was held in Chapel
on Sunday 15 April 2012. The preacher was the Right Revd
Michael Burrows, Bishop of Cashel and Ossory and former
TCD Dean of Residence. A large number of former members
of Chapel Choir returned to College to sing with the current
Choir.
After the service, the Provost, Dr. Patrick
Prendergast, hosted a reception in the Public Theatre.
At that event, the Provost spoke of how he enjoys crossing
the cobbles of Front Square on a Sunday morning to the
Chapel to hear such wonderful music. "There are few
heads of universities anywhere in the world," he
said "who have the privilege of such an experience.
This is an occasion that reminds me just how special -
how unique - Trinity really is, and how we all share in
the duty to celebrate that uniqueness, to stand up for
it, and to cherish it for the future generations."
Paying tribute to the Chapel Choir, the
Dean of Residence, the Revd Darren McCallig, quoted the
Irish poet and priest John O'Donohoe who once said, "Music
is what language would love to be if only it could."
He went on: "Every week in that Chapel over there
we have our souls nourished, our spirits refreshed and
our hearts lifted by the music of Chapel Choir. And what
we - what I - need to remember today is that it doesn't
happen by accident. It happens because a group of gifted
people give generously of their time and their talents
so that all who walk through those doors - whether they
are curious tourists, stressed-out students or even more
stressed-out staff - all who walk through those doors
get to experience a moment of beauty and of peace and
maybe even get a glimpse of that infinity which is within
each one of us."
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2012 Lent
Series
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series of Sunday morning speakers in the Chapel of Trinity
College Dublin have been announced. The series is entitled
“6 Voices 6 Psalms: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Perspectives
on the Psalms of David.” Over six Sundays in Lent a group
of distinguished visiting speakers will share their thoughts
on some of the best-loved verses in the Hebrew Bible. The
line-up contains some prominent Christians as well as Jewish
and Islamic scholars.
The full list of speakers and their chosen
psalms is as follows:
· On Sunday 26 February Professor
Linda Hogan, Vice-Provost & Chief Academic Officer at
TCD will speak on Psalm 13. How long, O Lord? Will you
forget me for ever? How long will you hide your face from
me?
· On Sunday 4 March, Fr. Paddy Gleeson,
Catholic Chaplain TCD, will speak on Psalm 51.Have mercy
on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according
to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
· On Sunday 11 March, Mrs. Justice
Catherine McGuinness, Former Supreme Court Justice, will
speak on Psalm 104. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord
my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honour
and majesty, wrapped in light as with a garment.
· On Sunday 18 March, Mr. Patsy McGarry,
Religious Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times will speak
on Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside
still waters; he restores my soul.
· On Sunday 25 March, Dr. Zuleika
Rodgers, Lecturer in Jewish Studies TCD, will speak on Psalm
137. By the rivers of Babylon - there we sat down and
there we wept when we remembered Zion.
· On Sunday 1 April, Dr. Roja Fazaeli,
Lecturer in Islamic Studies, TCD will speak on Psalm 139.
O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when
I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from
far away.
Commenting on the series, the Revd Darren
McCallig, Dean of Residence and Chaplain TCD, said: “The
Psalms have long served an important role in the individual
and corporate lives of the members of the three great Abrahamic
faiths. Taken together, the Psalms give voice to the full
range of human emotions - everything from joy to sorrow,
desperation to anger and vengeance to peace. We are very
much looking forward to hearing six personal responses to
these living words.”
The addresses will be given in the context
of the Sunday morning Choral Eucharist (10.45am) in TCD
Chapel. All are welcome.
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'Spiorad'
Journal Launched
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A new journal entitled "Spiorad"
has been launched at TCD. The publication, which is subtitled
“exploring the sacred in words and images”, aims to provide
a platform for new writing and art on spiritual and religious
themes.
The first issue includes contributions from
Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy (Focus Ireland) and Abbot Christopher
Dillon (Glenstal Abbey) as well as pieces from TCD students,
staff and alumni.
Speaking at the recent launch of “Spiorad”
Marni Rothman, one of the consulting editors, explained
that the journal hopes to provide “a forum to explore spirituality
within and across religions, denominations, and practices.”
“Many people,” she said, “experience a ‘more’
at the heart of their lives. Sometimes this presence is
encountered in music, sometimes in art, sometimes in words
and sometimes in love. ‘Spiorad’ provides a space where
this dimension of life can be engaged and explored.”
The TCD Dean of Residence, the Revd Darren
McCallig, said: “My sense is that a new spirituality is
struggling to emerge in our time. It is a spirituality that
nourishes both head and heart. It is a spirituality which
takes the time to turn inwards but only as a necessary prelude
to engagement with the world. Our hope is that ‘Spiorad’
journal will be part of that ongoing conversation.”
“Spiorad” will be published twice a year,
at the beginning of Michaelmas and Hilary terms. For further
information, or to request a free copy of “Spiorad” please
email spiorad@tcd.ie
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