CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 15 August 1998
Sudan Prayer Evening
On evening Tuesday in Kill o' the Grange Parish Hall,
Co Dublin, all are welcome to join in intercession for the desperate
plight of The Sudan: for peace, for the relief of famine, and for an end
to civil war. The speaker will be the Revd Cirilo Yokwe who is Bishop's
Commissary of Rokon Diocese in the neighbourhood of Juba, Sudan's second
largest city and capital of the Southern Region.
Mr Yokwe has been attending pre-Lambeth conferences
in England and is visiting Ireland to liaise with members of the Sudan
Support Group and the Church Missionary Society Ireland. He comes from
Kagwada, a village fifty miles from Juba where Kill o' the Grange Parish
supported an Integrated Development Programme in the early 1980s.
Currently he is studying theology under the Revd Graham Buttanshaw at
Bishop Allison Theological College in Arua, N.W. Uganda. Having twice
been destroyed at other locations, BATC is temporarily housed at the
West Nile Ecumenical Vocational Training Centre which has recently been
erected by CMSIreland. The Sudanese students are praying they may be
able to rebuild their College in Yei in the near future. Yei was
liberated by SPLA action in 1997 but is still liable to high level
bombing by the Sudanese Airforce who destroyed the hospital there last
November.
This evening (Saturday) in St Werburgh's Church,
Dublin there will be a concert by the Derva Consort from Chester who are
the visiting choir in St Patrick's Cathedral. St Werburgh's Church is
close by Christ Church Cathedral where the services today (Saturday) and
tomorrow (Sunday) will be sung by the choir of St Peter's Church,
Bexhill.
Tomorrow morning RTE will broadcast a studio service,
conducted by the Revd Christopher Halliday, on the theme of the Lambeth
Conference. Mr Ian Delingei from San Jose Cathedral, with which Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin is twinned, will visit Christ Church as a
representative of the Dean of San Jose, the Very Revd Philip Getchell,
while the preacher at the Sung Eucharist in St Nicholas' Collegiate
Church, Galway will be the Revd Dr Hueston Finlay, Fellow and Chaplain
of Magdalene College, Cambridge. In Loch Gowna parish church there will
be an Evening of Music, Praise and Worship led by the Dean of Cashel,
the Very Revd Dr Philip Knowles.
On Wednesday a Festival of Flowers begins in St
Mary's Cathedral, Limerick and continues until next Sunday while in
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Evensong will be sung by the choir of St
Mark's Church, Winshill who will also sing on Thursday. In St Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin the lunchtime recital will be given by David Leigh,
the Cathedral's assistant organist.
There will be a song recital by Suki Jenkins
(soprano) and Stephen Hose (piano) in the Church of St John the
Evangelist, Sandymount on Friday evening. The proceeds will go to the St
John's Restoration Fund.
Church of Ireland House, Rathmines will close next
week for a major refurbishment which it is estimated will take seven
months. The office will close to personal callers at lunchtime on
Thursday 20 August although the telephones will be manned until the
close of business on Friday 21 August. The temporary address will be
Church House, The Royal Hospital, Bloomfield Avenue, off Morehampton
Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4 where the present telephone and fax numbers
and E-mail address will continue to apply. As there is likely to be some
disruption involved in the move on Thursday and Friday 21 & 22
August the staff would appreciate if only essential enquiries were made
for their first few days in Donnybrook. These arrangements will also
affect the Dublin Diocesan Office. RCB Library
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