CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 13 February 1999
From: The RCB Library
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Contemplative Prayer Retreats
Advance information is now available about this year's retreats which
have been organized by the Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer in
Ireland. There will be a weekend retreat from 11 to 13 June and a mid
week retreat from 14 to 17 June. Both events will be held in Bellinter
House Conference Centre, Bellinter, Navan, Co. Meath and the witness
will be the Dean of Raphoe, the Very Revd Dr. Stephen White.
The retreats begin with a meal, a discussion on aims and methods, and
notices about practical details. Thereafter silence is observed until
the final Eucharist. The retreat witness is available for interviews and
there is ample time to relax, read, pray, sleep and be quiet. The
Eucharist is celebrated daily and Mass (celebrated for the resident
community at Bellinter) is open to those on retreat.
Participation in the retreats is open to all who are interested and
especially welcome will be those attending for the first time. Early
booking, if possible before the end of April, is recommended. Details
may be had from the Revd David Ferry, 1 Lowertown Road, Ballymagorry,
Strabane BT82 0LE, Co. Tyrone.
Today (Saturday) in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Evensong will be
sung by the choir of Holywood parish church who will also sing the
services tomorrow (Sunday), while the cathedral choirs are on half term
recess.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Walton Empey, will
bless and officially open the Old Schools Restoration and Development
Project in Whitechurch parish. In association with FAS the old school
buildings have been refurbished for the benefit of the parish and the
wider community. RTE will broadcast Morning Service from Christ Church ,
Bray, where the rector is the Revd Baden Stanley.
The second in the series of Bach concerts in St. Ann's Church,
Dublin, begins at 3.30 pm when the recitalist will be Maya Homburger
(baroque violin).
The third in the series of lectures on "Medical Ethics and the
Future of Health Care" will be held in the new hospital in Tallaght
on Monday evening. The lecturer will be Ms. Verena Tschudin, editor of
Nursing Ethics, who will speak on "Ethics and Holistic Care".
On Tuesday the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr. Robin Eames, will attend the
Irish Inter-Church meeting in Dundalk.
This week the Chapel Choir of Trinity College, Dublin, will
co-ordinate a series of musical events. On Monday at 8.00 pm Apparatus
Musicus will give a concert which will include the premier of Andrew
Johnstone's Sonata da Chiesa, on Wednesday at 6.30 pm Colm Carey will
give an organ recital, and on Thursday at 8.00 pm the Chapel Choir will
join the Quintessential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble of London in a
programme of early music.
At noon on Ash Wednesday the College Chaplains in Trinity will
co-ordinate a penitential liturgy for the beginning of Lent, which will
include the first in a series of Lenten addresses on the themes of
imprisonment, asylum and global debt. In Christ Church Cathedral at 6.00
pm there will be a Liturgy of Penitence, Imposition of Ashes and Sung
Eucharist at which the music will be Tallis The Litany in Five Parts,
Allegri Miserere Mei, Deus, and Byrd Mass for Five Voices.
In Dublin, on Thursday the Executive Committee of the Representative
Church Body will meet in Church House.
On Tuesday in Christ Church Cathedral the speaker at the lunchtime
lecture on "Christ Church in Stuart Dublin" will be Dr. Colm
Kenny, Dublin City University, whose subject will be "Lawyers in
Hell. The Four Courts at Christ Church. An Historical View".
Evensong in Christ Church will be sung by the John Fisher Boys' Choir.
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