CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 18th March 2000
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Bishops' Appeal Newsletter
Lent, as traditionally a period of self denial, is an entirely
appropriate time for the Bishops' Appeal, the Church of Ireland world
aid and development programme, to issue its annual Newsletter. Under the
headline of "Giving People a Future" the Newsletter reveals
that in 1999 £231,230 was made available for development projects and
£238,637 was given to emergencies.
Development projects in Africa, Asia, South America and Europe, in
the categories of medical health, rural development and education were
assisted to varying degrees with, for example, grants of £5,000 for a
school in Ethiopia, £10,000 for a landmine programme in Cambodia, and
£20,000 for seed production and distribution in the Sudan. Emergencies
arising from flooding in Venezuela, the earthquake in Turkey, and the
effects of Hurricane Mitch in Central America also evoked a response.
But as the Newsletter appositely says "Thank you. The need is
great. Please keep giving".
The Bishop of Kilmore, Rt Revd Michael Mayes, is the new chairman of
the Bishops' Appeal and the new honorary secretary is the Revd Olive
Donohoe, Rector of Mountmellick.
Today (Saturday) the participants in the Mothers' Union
Millennium Journey will arrive in Kilkenny where they will be received
in the Palace by the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John
Neill. Among their other stopping points next week will be Collooney
where there will be a Festival Service, Belcoo where there will be
midday prayers, and Belfast where there will be a Service of Celebration
in St Anne's Cathedral, on Friday afternoon.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise a celebration of the
Eucharist by the Revd Scott Peoples with the parishioners of Leixlip and
Lucan. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, will preach in
Belfast Cathedral while in Dublin Dr Andrew Pierce, Lecturer in
Systematic Theology and Church History in the Church of Ireland
Theological College, will give the address in St John's Church,
Sandymount. In Christ Church Cathedral Evensong will be sung by the
combined choirs of the Cathedral and St Catherine's College, Cambridge,
while in St Patrick's Cathedral the Rt Revd Samuel Poyntz will give the
second in a series of Lenten episcopal addresses on the Apostles' Creed.
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening, at 7.30 pm St Patrick's Cathedral
will host an ecumenical service in celebration of the life and legacy of
St Patrick. This has been organized by the Dublin Council of Churches
and the Roman Catholic Advisory Committee on Ecumenical Affairs of the
Archdiocese of Dublin, and the liturgy has been devised by Dr Alan
McCormack, the Cathedral's Succentor. The theme of the service will be
the welcome of the stranger in our midst and it will seek to appropriate
the vigour of medieval liturgy through music, movement and dance.
On Wednesday evening in St Andrew's School, Malahide, the second in a
Lenten series On "The Celtic Tiger and..." will focus on
refugees, while in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, the study programme
on "Christ the Healer" will continue with a session on
"Public Health and the Gospels".
The Church Missionary Society Ireland will hold a Spring Sale on
Thursday morning in the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, in aid of Dr
Rajkumar's medical work in South India. In Rathfarnham parish church the
first in a Lenten series of talks, which have been organized by the
Church of the Holy Spirit, Ballyroan, and Rathfarnham Parish, will be
held at 8.00 pm. The speakers on "Faith and Society. The Challenge
of Living in Modern Ireland, Rural and Urban" will be the Dean of
St Patrick's, Dr Robert MacCarthy, and Fr Harry Bohan, Director of Rural
Resources Development Ltd. Shannon.
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