CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 8th January 2000
From: The RCB Library
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Millennium Festival at Christ Church Cathedral
A major liturgical festival entitled Ceiliuradh has been planned to
take place Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, from 18 to 24 June, and will
be formally opened by President McAleese. The festival begins on Sunday 18
June with a liturgical reception and the following morning the key-note
address, "Why Worship" will be given by Dr Ann Loades, Senior
Lecturer in Theology in Durham University. Morning and afternoon lectures
will concentrate on the riches of our liturgical heritage and the creative
use of liturgical space, language and music. Each morning the Revd Rick
Fabian, a noted liturgist from San Francisco, will lead a workshop in
preparation for a pre-lunch liturgy while afternoon workshops will be led
by John Bell from the Iona Community.
There will be a special series of lunchtime lectures which will run
alongside historical tours of the cathedral and its environs, and each
evening there will be a concert and festival club. In recognition of the
history of Christ Church as a monastic community of Augustinian canons
before the Reformation, on one day, the complete cycle of monastic offices
will be sung. The festival will draw on the established musical resources
of Christ Church, and on other noted choirs, to provide a wide range of
liturgical music throughout the week.
Participation in this festival is open to all who are interested. It is
envisaged that there will be some 200 full time, residential participants
but the festival will be open to those who wish only to attend specific
events. It is not confined to academics or to Anglicans and it is hoped
that many people from different parts of the country and from differing
Christian denominations will take part.
Details may be had from Ceiliuradh Office, Braemor Institute, Church of
Ireland Theological College, Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14 or see
the relevant pages on the Christ Church Cathedral Website.
On Monday in the Stricklands Conference Centre, Bangor, Co. Down, there
will be a conference on the theme "Evangelism in a New Century".
The speaker will be the Revd Professor Gerald Bray from Beeson Divinity
School at Stamford University, Birmingham, Alabama. Dr Bray has written
widely on church history, doctrine and liturgy and is perhaps best known
for his book Creeds, Councils and Christ. Details of the conference may be
had from the Revd B.T. Kerr, Knockarevan, Garrison, Co. Fermanagh BT93
4AE Tel: (028) [RoI = 048] 6865 8372
On Tuesday the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will institute
the Revd Brian O'Rourke to the incumbency of St Luke's, Cork. Mr O'Rourke,
who was ordained in 1992 has been Rector of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, since
1998. The Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will institute the Revd
Patrick Towers to the incumbency of Galway on Thursday. Mr Towers, who was
Rector of Nenagh, from 1989, succeeds the Very Revd Dr Robert MacCarthy
who is now Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. It is expected that Mr Towers
will also follow Dr MacCarthy as Provost of Tuam and this will give him a
seat on the cathedral chapter of St Mary, Tuam. On Friday the Archbishop
of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will institute the Revd Andrew Orr to the
incumbency of Castleknock where he succeeds the present Bishop of Cork. Mr
Orr was ordained in 1992 and has been Rector of Castlecomer since 1995.
Last Friday, in St John's Cathedral, Sligo, the Revd David Griscome was
instituted as Rector of Sligo by the Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh,
the Rt Revd Michael Mayes. At the same service he was installed as Dean of
Elphin and Ardagh. Dean Griscombe, who was ordained in 1989, has been
Rector of Calry, Co. Sligo from 1997. He succeeds the Very Revd Stuart
McGee who has retired from the stipendiary ministry.
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