CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 17 October 1998
New Nursing Home for Dublin
Traditionally one of the roles of the Church has been
the care of the sick and indigent and, despite the increasing provision
of the state, these are areas of modern life in which the Church still
has a role to play. An important development in the provision of care,
with which the Church of Ireland is closely associated, will take place
on Wednesday when the Taoiseach, Mr Bertie Ahern, will mark the
commencement of a new nursing home in the grounds of the Mageough Home
in Rathmines, and the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will bless
the site.
In 1997 the dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough began
the process of establishing a 44 bed unit which will be known as the
Cowper Care Centre. A Board of Directors has been appointed of which the
chairman is Mr Howard Kilroy, and the work of raising some £2.7 million
to finance the project is well in hand. Much of the money will come from
the sale of the Gascoigne Home and from a large individual donation but
it is estimated that a further £700,000 will remain to be raised.
This evening (Saturday) under the auspices of Christ
Church Baroque, there will be a concert in Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin, by Malcolm Proud on organ and harpiscord, together with the
gentlemen of the Cathedral Choir.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a studio service
conducted by Canon William Beare, Rector of Stradbally, while on BBC
Radio Ulster Morning Service will come from St Martin's Church, Belfast
where the rector is the Revd Ian Betts. The Archbishop of Armagh, Dr
Robin Eames, will preach at the harvest festival in Gilnahirk, where he
was rector from 1966 to 1974, and in the evening will return to Armagh
to preach at a service in St Patrick's Cathedral to mark the 25th
anniversary of the Ministry of Healing in the diocese. The Archbishop of
Dublin will preach at a Festival Service in St Iberius' Church, Wexford
while in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin the Annual Founder's
Thanksgiving Service of the Dublin Battalion of the Boys' Brigade will
be held. In St Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare, the Very Revd Andrew Furlong
will be installed as precentor, Canon Alastair Grimason as chancellor,
and Canon Robert Deane as treasurer, and a new canon, the Revd Patrick
Carmody, will be installed.
The Armagh Diocesan Synod will be held on Tuesday
while on Tuesday and Wednesday the Dublin and Glendalough Diocsean Synod
will take place in Taney parish centre. On Wednesday the Derry and
Raphoe Diocesan Synod will be held in Derry.
The lunchtime lecture in the "Vikings and Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin" series will be held in the Cathedral
crypt at 1.15 pm on Tuesday when the speaker will be Dr Sean Duffy,
Department of Medieval History, Trinity College, Dublin. On Thursday the
lunchtime talk in the "I believe..." series in St Thomas'
Church, Cathal Brugha Street, will be given by the newsreader and
theatre critic, Emer O'Kelly.
On Friday evening the Archbishop of Armagh will
introduce the Revd Peter Thornbury, formerly Rector of Clondehorkey in
Co. Donegal, as bishop's curate in Kilsaran, Castlebellingham.
The new Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, the Revd
Dr Alan McCormack is now in residence. Dr McCormack, formerly curate in
the parish of Knock in the Diocese of Down, is keen to recover the
public dimension of Chapel services in Trinity and wishes to emphasise
that visitors are very welcome. The daily offices are said in the Chapel
each day at 9.15 and 5.15, there is Choral Evensong on Thursdays at 5.15
and a Sung Eucharist with Sermon on Sundays at 10.45 am.
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