CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 12 June 1999
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Ordinations to the Diaconate
The largest tranche of ordinations to the diaconate for this year
will take place tomorrow (Sunday) in the dioceses of Down and Dromore,
Connor, and Cashel and Ossory.
The Bishop of Down and Dromore, the Rt. Revd Harold Miller, will
ordain Craig McCauley, Andrew McCroskery, William Press and Marie Walshe
to serve as curates in Banbridge, Newtownards, Knockbreda and Kilkeel
respectively. In St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, Bishop Samuel Poyntz,
acting for the Bishop of Connor who is indisposed, will ordain Ron
Elsdon, Elizabeth Henderson, Paul Jack and Terence Kerr for the curacies
of Ballymena, Ballymacash, Jordanstown and Antrim. Ian Coulter will be
ordained in St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, by the Bishop of Cashel and
Ossory, the Rt. Revd John Neill.
Of the nine ordinations, six will be to the stipendiary ministry and
three to the auxiliary ministry.
Today (Saturday) in Dublin there will be parish fetes at Taney, St
Matthias', Ballybrack, and All Saints', Grangegorman while in Galway the
St Nicholas' Garden Fete will take place at the rectory on Taylor's
Hill. The Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will preach at the 150th
anniversary service in Calry Church, Co. Sligo, while in Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin the Dun Laoghaire Choral Society will give a concert
in aid of the restoration of St John's Church, Sandymount. The Friends
of St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, will have their AGM which will be
preceded by Evensong and followed by a talk from the Revd Dr Adrian
Empey on "Piers Butler - An Irish Borgia".
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service from Drumcliffe,
Co. Sligo, the burial place of W.B. Yeats, where the rector is Canon Ian
Gallagher. In St John's Church, Clondalkin, Dr Raj Rajkumar, a CMS
Ireland mission partner from south India, will undertake the final
preaching engagement of his visit to Ireland. In Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin, the Vanburgh String Quartet will give a recital at 5.00 p.m. as
part of the Cathedral Arts season while in Cork the
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will preach at the closing
service of the Festival of Flowers in St Fin Barre's Cathedral. Summer
services have resumed in Templeconnor Church, Clonmacnois, where until
the end of August there will be a celebration of the Eucharist each
Sunday at 4.00 p.m..
On Tuesday the Standing Committee of the General Synod and the
Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in the
newly re-furbished Church of Ireland House in Rathmines where the
bishops will also gather. In St Stephen's Green, Dublin, there will be a
"Carnival to Break the Chains of Debt" at lunchtime. This will
be the final Irish event of Jubilee 2000 to celebrate the collection of
750,000 signatures in favour of the cancellation of world debt.
In Dublin on Wednesday Andrew Johnstone, Assistant Organist of Christ
Church Cathedral, will give a recital in St Patrick's at 6.30 p.m.. In
Christ Church the Girls' Choir will sing Evensong which will be followed
by a prizegiving while at 8.00 p.m. the Friends will hold their AGM in
the Chapter House.
The season of summer concerts, presented by Musica Hibernica, has
already begun and as before the venues are often Church of Ireland
churches. On Thursday the first concert of June will be held in Christ
Church, Clifden, Co. Galway, where the Norrby Choir from Gothenburg,
Sweden, will perform works by Mozart, Ellington Homulius, Handel, Ahlen,
Purcell and Bellman. On Friday the choir of St George's Church, Belfast
begins a period of residency in Wells Cathedral which will continue
until 26 July.
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