CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 13 March 1999
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
St Patrick's Day Celebrations
St Patrick's Day, this year, is on Wednesday and so the disruption of
the ecclesiastical round in Dublin, where the scale of the celebrations
seems to grow by the year, will be less than when the national Patronal
festival falls on a Sunday. Nonetheless Christ Church cathedral will be
largely inaccessible until the parade has passed and so there will not
be a celebration of the Eucharist at lunchtime.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Patronal festival begins
tomorrow (Sunday) when there will be a Festal Sung Eucharist at 11.15 am
and choral evensong at 3.15 p.m. The preacher at both services will be
the Dean of York, the Very Revd Raymond Furnell. On St Patrick's Day
there will be a Festal Eucharist at 10.00 am and choral evensong at 4.00
p.m. which will be broadcast by BBC Radio 4.
In the other great patrician centre, Downpatrick, the major festival
service will be at 11.30 am when representatives of missionary societies
and groups from all denominations will come to Down Cathedral where the
preacher will be the Revd George Kavoor, Principal of the Church
Missionary Society Training College in Birmingham.
In St Patrick's Memorial Church, Saul, at 10.00 am the Precentor of
Down Cathedral, Canon Brian Mayne, will celebrate the Eucharist and the
preacher will be the Archdeacon of Down, the Ven. Ken. Good.
RTE will broadcast the Eucharist from St Colman's Cathedral, Cloyne,
sung by the Carrigaline Singers, directed by Ian Sexton, assistant
organist of St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, while in St Fin Barre's the
Dean will preach at the Civic Service for St Patrick's Day.
Today (Saturday) a Vocations Conference, which began yesterday
(Friday) continues in the Church of Ireland Theological College in
Dublin.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a service for Mothering Sunday
from Mountmellick where the rector is the Revd Olive Donohoe.
In St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, at 4.00 p.m., there will be an
ecumenical service in connection with Cork Peace Week. This will be
conducted by the Dean, Dr Michael Jackson, and the preacher will be
Monsignor Patrick Devine. At Evensong there will be a memorial service
for Archbishop McAdoo, sometime Dean of Cork, at which the preacher will
be Fr Michael Hurley SJ.
The Rt. Revd Edward Darling will attend Mass in St John's Cathedral
to mark the opening of Limerick Civic Week which will end on Sunday 21
March with the celebration of the Eucharist in St Mary's Cathedral.
In the "Faith for a New Millennium" series of Lenten
addresses in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the preacher will be the
Rector of Howth, Canon Cecil Hyland.
On Tuesday The Revd Scott Peoples will be instituted to the
incumbency of Lucan and Leixlip by the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton
Empey. Mr Peoples, who has been rector of Portarlington since 1991,
succeeds the Revd Bruce Pierce who is now chaplain in the new hospital
in Tallaght.
An interesting piece of memorial silver has recently come to light.
It is a two handled silver cup which was presented to the Revd Richard
Powell when he left the parish of St Catherine, Dublin, after 22 years
as curate, to become Rector of Rathdrum. The cup, which has been
identified by Douglas Bennett, Secretary of the Company of Goldsmiths,
as the work the Dublin silversmith, George West, has a handsome
inscription on one face while the other is decorated with an engraving
of the west front of St Catherine's Church, Thomas Street. Through the
good offices of the Dublin firm of solicitors, Maxwell, Weldon &
Darley, the cup has been placed on permanent loan in the RCB Library
where the parish records of St Catherine's are kept.
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