CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 6th November 1999
From: The
RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Winter Issue of Search
The new issue of the Church of Ireland journal, Search, anticipates
the forthcoming millennium with articles by the Archdeacon of Dublin and
Dr Dennis Carroll. The Ven. Gordon Linney contributes a wide ranging
article which asks searching questions about the church in general and
the Church of Ireland in particular, while Fr Carroll considers the
impact and significance of millennium thinking. Contemporary and
historic aspects of inter-church relationships are also topics for
articles. The Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, offers a
considered response to One Bread One Body, while Patrick Comerford
reassesses Edward Nangle and the Achill Mission. Finally, the Revd
Robert Dunlop has provided a sketch of the life and work of the late
Desmond Bowen whose publications on the church in Ireland in the
nineteenth century made a distinctive contribution to Irish
ecclesiastical historiography.
Search is available from the R.E. Resource Centre, Holy Trinity
Church, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Today (Saturday) St Ann's Church, Dublin, will hold a mini market in
the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook from 10.00 am, while in Christ Church
Cathedral there will be an attempt to set a world record
at the first public ringing of the newly augmented peal of bells.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey,
will preside at the Annual
Citizenship Service in Christ Church Cathedral where the preacher
will be the Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, Dr Walsh.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, in the afternoon, the preacher at the
Annual Huguenot Service will be the former Dean of Vancouver, Dr Herbert
O'Driscoll. Ordained for the curacy of Monkstown, Co. Dublin, Dr
O'Driscoll is recognised as one of the great preachers of our day and
was Director of the College of Preachers in Washington.
In St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam, the Diocesan Youth Council will hold a
"Praise and Worship" service for the young people of the
diocese, while in St Mary's Church, Navan, the Bishop of Meath will be
the speaker at the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society meeting.
On Thursday the Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd Edward Darling, will
chair the Tercentenary Meeting of the Irish USPG Committee. In Trinity
College, Dublin, Dr Donald Bruce, Church of Scotland Scientific Board,
will speak on "Genetics and Biomedical Ethics" in the
"Theology at the Turn of the Millennium" lecture series.
Friday is the feast of St Begnet who is closely associated with
Dalkey, Co. Dublin, and this will be marked by an ecumenical act of
worship for the local community. This will begin the Church of Ireland
at 8.00 pm., move to the Roman Catholic Church, and conclude around the
old Church of St Begnet.
Mrs. Elizabeth Aalen, Education Advisor of the Bishops' Appeal,
represented the Church of Ireland at the recent Assembly of the European
Christian Environment Network in Germany. The assembly's proceedings,
entitled "Towards Sustainability in Europe", were conducted
against a background of a scientific consensus that a 60% reduction is
needed in greenhouse gas emissions. The assembly challenged European
citizens to reduce energy use by adopting simpler lifestyles and urged
churches, and their members, to examine their own practices.
The RCB Library's exhibition "Dublin City Churches
Revisited" in the Dublin Civic Museum closed at the end of October
after its run had been extended for an extra month. The exhibition,
which was supported by the Heritage Council and the Ecclesiastical
Insurance Office, was seen by many Dubliners as well as visitors from 27
Irish counties and 37 foreign countries. The positive reaction to the
exhibition revealed an unsuspected degree of interest in the
architectural and historical dimensions of the Church of Ireland and
indicated the considerable, but largely unexploited, tourist potential
of the Dublin city churches.
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the Irish
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