CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 11th March 2000
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Archbishop of Canterbury to Visit Armagh
The St Patrick's tide celebrations in Armagh for the new millennium
will be marked by a visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George
Carey. He will preach in St Patrick's Cathedral on Friday at Evensong
and the following day will be the main speaker at a Church of Ireland
Conference entitled "Into the new
Millennium".
The conference, which is being hosted by the Diocese of Armagh, will
be attended by bishops, clergy and laity from throughout the Church of
Ireland, and by leaders of the main Christian denominations on the
island, and will seek to discuss the way ahead for the Church of
Ireland.
Elsewhere the patronal festival of the national saint will be marked
in a variety of ways. In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin the Dean, Dr
Robert MacCarthy, will be the preacher at a Festival Eucharist which
will be broadcast by RTE Radio. There will be a celebration of the
Eucharist in St Patrick's Memorial Church, Saul, at which the Bishop of
Down, the Rt Revd Harold Miller will preach, and this will be followed
by a pilgrimage
to Down Cathedral. The Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will
preach at the Civic Service in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, from where,
later in the day, the Mothers' Union Millennium Pilgrimage, which will
end in Armagh on 25 March, will depart.
Today (Saturday) Affirming Catholicism Ireland will have a Quiet
Afternoon in St Mary's Abbey Church, Ardee, where the conductor will be
the Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, the Very Revd John Paterson. In the
Deanery of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Cathedral and the Irish
School of Ecumenics will host a conference on ecumenism which is
intended for all christians who are committed to the work of unity,
reconciliation and peace in Ireland.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will broadcast a Lenten liturgical
sequence, from the Church of Ireland Theological College, devised by the
Chaplain of Trinity College, Dr Alan McCormack, and the first year
ordinands, while BBC Radio Ulster will carry a service from the Church
of the Resurrection, Belfast, led by the Chaplain of Queen's University,
the Revd Andrew Foster. In Dublin the first in a Lenten series of
addresses in St John's Church, Sandymount, on "Servants of the
Church" will be given by Ms Valerie Beatty, Assistant Secretary to
the General Synod, while in St Patrick's Cathedral the third in a series
of millennium addresses will be given by Sr Cecilia Clegg, Irish School
of Ecumenics. The Archbishop of Dublin has requested that a special collection
for Mozambique should be made in all the churches of the united dioceses
of Dublin and Glendalough.
In the afternoon, in Cork's North Cathedral, the Bishop of Meath and
Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, will preach at the Peace
Service, while in Belfast a former Bishop of Cork, Dr Samuel Poyntz,
will preach in St Anne's Cathedral at a memorial service for Canon John
Nowlan. The first of a Lent 2000 series of addresses on the Apostles
Creed in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be given at Evensong by
the former Bishop of Cashel, the Rt Revd Noel Willoughby, and at 8.00 pm
the Cathedral will host the annual Thanksgiving Service for the Gift of
Sport.
On Tuesday evening in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the annual Joe
Coady Memorial Lecture will be given by Dr Ann Buckley, University of
Cambridge, on "Music from the Monasteries and Cathedrals of
Ireland".
On Wednesday evening in St Mary's Cathedral, the Rt Revd Edward
Darling, Bishop of Limerick will ordain the Revd Patricia Hanna to the
priesthood.
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