CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 26th February 2000
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Annual Theological lectures in Queen's
The annual theological lectures in Queen's
University, Belfast, will be held on Monday and Tuesday at 5.30 pm in
the Geography Theatre, Elmwood Avenue and will be preceded by tea in the
Church of Ireland Centre, 22 Elmwood Avenue, from 4.45 pm. Admission is
free.
This year's topic will be "The Return of Religion at the Close
of the Millennium" and the speaker will be the Rt. Revd. Michael
Marshall, Assistant Bishop of London. Bishop Marshall will already be
known to many through books such as Church at the Crossroads, Great
Expectations and Saints Alive, while his latest book Glory
Under Your Feet. Six Bible Studies on the Transfiguration of the Church
and the Transformation of Society, appeared earlier this year.
He has had a varied career, having been a curate in Birmingham, a
tutor in Ely Theological College, a university chaplain and a parish
priest in London, Bishop of Woolwich from 1975, and, from 1984, Director
of the Anglican Institute in St Louis, Missouri, which involved
preaching, lecturing and broadcasting at Mission Centres of the Anglican
Institute across North America. In 1992 Bishop Marshall returned to
England to head, with Canon Michael Green, the Springboard Initiative
which was established by the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Decade of
Evangelism. In that capacity he travels widely throughout the world,
lecturing preaching and conducting a variety of forms of mission
activity.
Today (Saturday) the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will be in
Newport to attend the enthronement of the Archbishop of Wales. The
Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke will be in Scotland where
he will speak at the St Andrew's Diocesan Synod and tomorrow (Sunday) he
will preach in St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise a Liturgy of the Word in
anticipation of Women's World Day of Prayer which will be held on Friday
3 March. The service will be led by Ms Jean Binnie and the preacher will
be Ms Suzanne Harris. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the services
will be sung by the vocal ensemble, Cathedra, from Co. Down, while at
the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr James
Arthur, Professor of Education in Canterbury, will preach on
"Communities of Memory". In St Ann's Church, Dublin, the Bach
Cantatas 137 & 180 will be performed by the Draiocht Chamber Choir
and the Orchestra of St Cecilia.
On Monday, in Llandudno, the clergy of the Dioceses of Dublin and
Glendalough begin their annual clerical retreat which will last until
Thursday. The Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack,
will entertain members of the Theological College and the College of
Education.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Tuesday, the final lunchtime lecture in the current series will be
given by the architect, Shane O'Toole, who will speak on "The Old
City Revisited. Temple Bar and Dublin's Urban Regeneration".
On Wednesday the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will
preside at a Liturgical Welcome for the Revd. Martha Gray-Stack, the new
Chaplain in Kingston College, Mitchelstown. Mrs. Gray-Stack has been
auxiliary priest in charge of the Clara union of parishes in the Diocese
of Meath since 1993.
Wednesday is the closing date for the Millennium Church
Magazine Competition which has been organized by the Press Office.
Diocesan and parish magazines and parish and society newsheets are all
eligible for entry and details may be had from the Press Office in
Church of Ireland House, 61-67 Donegal Street, Belfast BT1 2QH; Email: The Press Office
Prizes will be awarded at the General Synod in the Waterfront Hall,
Belfast, in May.
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