CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 4th March 2000
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Programmes for Lent
Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday which is the beginning of the season
of Lent. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a Sung
Eucharist and Ashing at 6.00 pm and the service, which will last for
approximately one hour, will include the singing of Allegri's haunting
Miserere.
Lent, like Advent, is traditionally a time for teaching, and details
have been announced of a number of educational initiatives. In St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a series of addresses on the
Apostles' Creed at Evensong beginning on Sunday 12 March. All the
speakers will be bishops - the Bishop of Meath, the Bishop of Cork and
the Bishop of Tuam have been selected from the current House of Bishops.
They will be joined by two retired bishops, the Rt Revd Noel Willoughby
and the Rt Revd Samuel Poyntz, and, from the Church of England, by the
Bishop of Midleton, the Rt Revd Michael Lewis.
In Rathfarnham the local Church of Ireland and Roman Catholic
communities have combined to organize a series of talks which will be
held in Rathfarnham parish church on Thursday evenings beginning on 23
March. Under the general title of "Faith Matters for a New
Millennium. The Challenges of Today's Society" there will be talks
on "Faith and Society", "Business and Faith",
"Faith for Society's Builders" and "A Down to Earth
Faith".
The new Church of Ireland video "Profiles of Faith" is a
potentially useful vehicle for Lent study groups as is the APCK book of
millennium essays, A Time to Build, which was edited by the Dean of
Raphoe, Dr Stephen White.
On Saturday morning the preacher in the "Church and the
World" series of sermons in St Fin Barre's Cathedral will be the
Archdeacon of Cork, the Ven. Robin Bantry White, while at the final Sung
Eucharist of Hilary term in Trinity College Chapel, Senator David Norris
will preach on "Visions of Community". In the afternoon the
Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will preside at the
annual Festival Service in Seir Kieran.
There will be a feast of the music of Bach in Dublin tomorrow
(Sunday) afternoon. At 3.30 pm, in St Ann's Church, Malcolm Proud will
give a harpsichord recital, and later, at 5.30 pm in Christ Church
Cathedral, there will be a performance of Cantatas 22, 127 and 159 by
Christ Church Baroque.
In Christ Church Cathedral on Tuesday morning there will be a press
conference to launch the programme for Ceiliuradh, the festival of
liturgy and music which will be held in the cathedral during the week 11
to 18 June. The speakers will be Mark Duley, Director of Music in Christ
Church, and the theologian and liturgist, Dr Margaret Daly Denton.
On Friday a Vocations Conference begins in the Church of Ireland
Theological College and continues the following day. This is an
opportunity for those who may be thinking about ordination to learn more
about the ordained ministry. Applications to attend should be made
through rectors, chaplains or diocesan directors of ordinands.
Canon Alastair Grimason is to be the next Dean of Tuam. He was
ordained in 1979 and, after curacies in Belfast and Dublin, was
appointed as Rector of Navan in 1984. In 1991 he moved to his present
position as Rector of Tullamore and in the following year he was
appointed to the Prebend of Tipper in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
The new dean will be installed in St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam, on 7 April.
The Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, has appointed the Revd
Patrick Hewitt, Rector of Fanlobbus, and the Revd Paul Willoughby,
Rector of Kilmocomogue, to the chapters of St Fin Barre's Cathedral,
Cork, and St Colman's Cathedral, Cloyne.
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