CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 15th January 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The annual week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins next week. The
theme for the week will be "Blessed be God...who has blessed us in
Christ" and this will inform the many local events which will take
place throughout the country.
In Dublin the opening event will be a service in the Pro-Cathedral on
Tuesday evening at which the preacher will be the former Archbishop of
Dublin, Dr Donald Caird. On Wednesday there will be an Ecumenical Service
of Divine Healing at lunchtime in the Dublin Central Mission, and on
Friday there will be an Irish language service for unity in Christ Church
Cathedral under the auspices of Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise and Pobal an
Aifrinn.
Next Saturday, 22 January, there will be a service of Greek Orthodox
Vespers at 41 Arbour Hill, Dublin 7, and tomorrow (Sunday) week RTE will
televise a service with the staff and students of the Irish School of
Ecumenics at which the preacher will be the Director, Canon Kenneth
Kearon. On Monday 24 January members of staff of the Irish School of
Ecumenics will lead a City Centre Service of Prayer for Unity and
Reconciliation in the National Film Centre, Eustace Street, while in the
evening in Trinity College there will be a lecture by Dr John D'Arcy May
on "European Unity, Christian Division".
Today (Saturday) the Girls' Brigade will hold its divisional millennium
service in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where over 800 members from
throughout the Republic of Ireland will be present. The preacher will be
the Revd Lynda Peilow, curate of Castleknock.
Tomorrow (Sunday) there will be a memorial service for the late
Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Ossory, Dr Henry McAdoo, in St Canice's
Cathedral, Kilkenny. During the service the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory,
the Rt Revd John Neill, will dedicate a new diocesan processional cross in
memory of Dr McAdoo. The cross is the work of Kilkenny silversmith, Rudolf
Heltzell. In Dublin the preacher at the Sung Eucharist in Trinity College
Chapel will be Senator Shane Ross this will be the first in a series of
addresses on the theme of "Community". In the evening in St
Patrick's Cathedral, the annual Epiphanytide Processions will be held.
On Tuesday, in Bible House, Dawson Street, Dublin, the Hon. Mrs Justice
Catherine McGuinness will launch Restoring Justice, Living the Jubilee
which is a set of five ecumenical Bible studies prepared by the National
Bible Society of Ireland.
On Thursday the Sudan Support Group Ireland will hold a service in Kill
o' the Grange parish church, Dublin which will be a "Focus on the
Sudan" occasion for the four churches of the area. The address will
be given by Fr Paul Boyle from Scotland who has served for eight years
with the Mill Hill Fathers in Khartoum. For the last three years he has
been in charge of a parish which includes displaced persons camps and has
been diocesan coordinator for relief and development. He is currently
undertaking the Development Studies course in Kimmage Manor, Dublin.
The Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross has gone on-line with its own
diocesan web site as part of its programme for 2000/2001. The site
includes information on the Church of Ireland and christianity in general,
parish profiles, and e-mail contact addresses for all the parishes in the
diocese. The web site has been developed for the Diocesan Millennium
Working Group by the Revd Paul Willoughby, Rector of Bantry and Durrus.
The address of the site is http://www.cork.anglican.org or http://cork.anglican.org.
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the Irish
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