TCD Chapel launches ‘Picture Sermon Series’

Posted on: 03 April 2006

TCD Chapel has announced its forthcoming series of ‘Picture Sermons’. Each Sunday morning at 10.45am this term an invited preacher will discuss the story of a European masterwork within the broader liturgical context of the Christian Eucharist. This exercise in ‘intratextual ekphrasis’ is among the first of its kind to be attempted in Ireland.

“We are very much looking forward to this exciting and vibrant process which marks a further stage in the Chaplaincy’s desire to find new ways of connecting with diverse and discrete audiences in the University,” commented the College Chaplain, Dr Alan McCormack.

All are welcome to attend these services and postcards of each European masterwork will be supplied.

Picture Sermon Series Programme all at 10.45am in the Chapel of Trinity College

Sunday April 9th    

JAN PROVOOST, The Virgin and Child in a Landscape, early 16th century
The Revd Katherine Meyer, Presbyterian and Methodist Chaplain

Sunday April 16th   

P-C. PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, The Beheading of S. John Baptist, 19th century
The Revd Dr Alan McCormack, Dean of Residence and Chaplain

Sunday April 23rd   

TITIAN, Noli me Tangere, 16th century
Dr John McAleer, Art Historian, University of Bristol

Sunday April 30th   

CLAUDE, Landscape with Hagar and the Angel, 17th century
Alison Kelly, Curator of World Religions, Glasgow

Sunday May 7th  

BELLINI, S. Jerome reading in a Landscape, 15th century
The Revd Christopher Woods, Assistant Curate, Dundela, Down

Sunday May 14th   

CRANACH THE ELDER, Cupid complaining to Venus, 16th century
The Revd Dr Liam Tracey, Professor of Liturgical Theology, Maynooth