CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 22nd January 2000
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Primates to Preach in Ferns
Next week the 1400th anniversary of the creation of the Diocese of
Ferns will be marked by services in both the Church of Ireland and Roman
Catholic cathedrals. These services have been arranged by the Joint
Ecumenical Committee of the diocese.
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening there will be a Service of Thanksgiving in St
Aidan's Cathedral, Enniscorthy, where the preacher will be the Archbishop
of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, while on Friday evening the Archbishop of
Armagh, Dr Sean Brady, will be the preacher at the Patronal Festival
Service in St Edan's Cathedral, Ferns. The Bishop of Cashel and Ossory,
the Rt Revd John Neill will attend the service in Enniscorthy and will
preside at the service in Ferns.
W.H. Grattan Flood, who, in 1916, published a history of the diocese
from a Roman Catholic perspective, noted the almost total disappearance of
diocesan records, while the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in
1922 largely destroyed the Church of Ireland archive for Ferns. However,
the recent publication of Memory and Mission. Christianity in Wexford,
600-2000 AD, edited by Fr Walter Forde, should provide a new generation
with an introduction to the history and development of the diocese.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the first in a series of millennium addresses at
Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be given by the former
Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Cahal Daly, on the theme "Hopes for
the new Millennium". The Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton,
will preach in the Honan Chapel of University College, Cork, while in the
Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will
be Patrick Comerford of The Irish Times. In Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin, at 5.00 pm Christ Church Baroque will present a concert of
cantatas, motets and organ works by Bach.
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity continues next week. Tomorrow
(Sunday) RTE will televise a studio service with the staff and students of
the Irish School of Ecumenics at which the preacher will be the Director,
Canon Kenneth Kearon. In St John's Church, Sandymount the preacher at the
Sung Eucharist will be Fr Michael Hurley S.J. In an inspired and generous
display of practical ecumenism the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Ross,
Dr Buckley, has authorised collections at churches throughout his dioceses
to support the restoration and development programme in St Fin Barre's
Cathedral, Cork.
In Dublin, on Monday, members of the Irish School of Ecumenics will
lead a City Centre Service of Prayer for Unity and Reconciliation. This
will be held in the National Film Centre, Eustace Street at lunchtime. In
the evening the Trinity College Chaplaincy has arranged a lecture by Dr
John D'Arcy May, from the Irish School of Ecumenics, who will speak on
"European Unity, Christian Division? Christianity's Responsibility
for Europe's Past and Future". This will take place in the Ussher
Theatre in the Arts Building.
On Wednesday at 8.00 pm in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, there
will be a performance of J.S. Bach's the Art of the Fugue by Dublin born,
Colm Carey, who is organist of the Chapel Royal in the Tower of London.
The performance will be accompanied by a talk on the Art of the Fugue by
the distinguished musicologist, Jeremy Summerly, who is Head of Academic
Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
The Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, has appointed the Revd Gary
Hastings as Prebendary of Kilmoylan and Achonry in St Mary's Cathedral,
Tuam. Canon Hastings has been Rector of Aughaval, Westport, since 1995.
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