CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 12th February 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Video on Faith Launched
A new video, entitled Profiles of Faith, has been produced under the
auspices of the General Synod's Central Communications Board, which is
chaired by the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke. It will
be launched by the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, in St
Patrick's Cathedral, on Tuesday, and by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr
Robin Eames, in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, on Friday.
The video consists of four short programmes in which four members of
the Church of Ireland discuss, in a frank and open manner, their belief
and the challenges which have confronted it. The participants in the
programmes are the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Dr James Mehaffey; the
Irish Times journalist, Patrick Comerford; Mrs Violet Thorburn, a
teacher and foster parent in Donegal; and Daniel Nuzum, an ordinand in
the Theological College who has since been ordained.
It is intended that the video will be a contribution to the life and
mission of the Church of Ireland in the new millennium but it is hoped
also that it will have an appeal to those in the wider Christian
community who are struggling with issues of faith. Profiles of Faith
will be distributed to the rectors of all Church of Ireland parishes
together with printed material to assist with group work.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the former Dean of Vancouver, Dr Herbert
O'Driscoll, will preach at the Sung Eucharist in St Fin Barre's
Cathedral, Cork, where in the evening the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd
Paul Colton, will be the preacher at the 75th anniversary service of the
2nd Cork Scout Group. In Belfast the Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd
Edward Darling, will preach in St John's Church, Malone, while the
former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, will preach in St Anne's
Cathedral where he will dedicate processional candlesticks in memory of
Mrs Morag Shearer, wife of the Dean of Belfast. In Cambridge the Dean of
St Patrick's, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will preach in the Chapel of Magdalen
College where the Dean of Chapel is Dr Heuston Finlay, a former Bishop's
Vicar in Kilkenny, while in the Chapel of Trinty College, Dublin,
Senator Mary Henry will give the sermon on "Community" at the
Sung Eucharist. The Irish Federation of Women's Clubs will hold its
millennium service at Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the Archbishop of Armagh will
preside at a series of rural deanery meetings which will consider the
findings of a diocesan team which has visited Bishop Allison College in
Uganda. The team of seven clergy and laity, under the leadership of
Canon W.G. Neely, Rector of Keady and Diocesan Coordinator for the
Decade of Evangelism, visited Uganda for a week in January. During the
visit a contribution of £4500, which was raised in the Diocese of
Armagh, was handed over to the College by the Church Missionary Society
Ireland.
The second in the current series of lunchtime lectures in Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin, will be held on Tuesday at 1.15 pm. The speaker will be Dr Colm
Lennon, NUI-Maynooth, whose subject will be "Secular Cathedral
& Renaissance City".
In Trinity College, Dublin on Wednesday the third in the chaplaincy
spring lecture series will be held at 8.00 pm in the Arts Building where
the President of the Milltown Institute, Dr Patrick Riordan SJ, will
speak on "Politics and Christianity". On Thursday the
chaplaincy will host a "Festival of Faiths" evening to
coincide with a multi-cultural week in the College.
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the Irish
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