CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 27 March 1999
From: The RCB Library
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Varied Holy Week Programme in St Patrick's
Holy Week begins tomorrow (Sunday) with the liturgy for Palm Sunday
and marks the beginning of a period of intense liturgical activity in
cathedrals and parish churches throughout the Church of Ireland.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin there will be a particularly
notable programme of liturgy, music and drama over the coming week.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning there will be a Sung Eucharist with
procession and Sung Passion while in the afternoon "Behold the
man" will be a meditation for Holy Week in words and music with
scripture reading.
On Monday and Tuesday evenings there will be recitals of the music of
Bach with Arun Rao (cello), sacred songs from the lay vicars and choral
preludes by the cathedral organists, John Dexter and David Leigh.
The Revd Dr Alan McCormack, Chaplain in Trinity College, Dublin, will
be the preacher at "Tenebrae", on Wednesday at 8.0 p.m., a
dramatic Holy Week service illustrating the transition from light to the
darkness of the Passion.
On Good Friday there will be an Ecumenical Service for the Victims of
Violence at 3.15 p.m. at which the addresses will be given by Brice
Dickson (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission) and Michael
Lindenbaeur (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) and in the
evening there will be a performance of the St John Passion by Our Lady's
Choral Society.
Today (Saturday) in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, under the
auspices of the Theological College Extra Mural Programme, there will be
a choral workshop with Mark Duley entitled "Stainer from
Scratch". The highlight of the day will be a performance, at 8.00
p.m., of Stainer's Crucifixion by the participants in the workshop and
soloists, Frank Dunne and Bill Young all are welcome to the performance.
In the Church of Ireland College of Education the Mothers' Union will
host a one day seminar for younger women. The key note address "The
Relevance of M.U. Today" will be given by Lady Christine Eames,
World Wide President of the Mothers' Union.
Tomorrow (Sunday) in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, Canon George
Salter, for many years Rector of St Luke's, Cork, will mark the 50th
anniversary of his ordination by preaching and celebrating the
Eucharist.
In Arva, Co. Cavan, the Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles, will give
an organ recital while in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin the George
Hewson Memorial Organ Recital will be given by Nicholas Kynaston,
Organist of Athens Concert Hall.
In St Bartholomew's parish church, Dublin the preacher at the Palm
Sunday Evensong will be the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt. Revd
John Neill, who will also preach in St Bartholomew's on Maundy Thursday
and Good Friday.
On Monday the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, begins a series
of Holy Week addresses in Killylea and Eglish while the Bishop of Tuam,
Dr Richard Henderson, will spend Holy Week in the Ballisodare group of
parishes. The Bishop of Limerick, the Rt. Revd Edward Darling, will
visit Aughrim and Creagh and the former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel
Poyntz, will conduct the Holy Week Services in St Thomas' parish church,
Belfast.
On Maundy Thursday in Christ Church Cathedral, the Archbishop of
Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will preside at the Chrism Service and
Affirmation of Ordination Vows at noon. On Good Friday he will be in St
Ann's parish church to conduct the Three Hour Devotion from noon until
3.00 p.m. .
RTE 1 will broadcast a Good Friday service from St Fin Barre's
Cathedral, Cork, from 2.00-3.00 p.m., when the Dean of Cork, Dr Michael
Jackson, will lead a meditation on the theme "On the Way to the
Cross with Dietrich Bonhoeffer".
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