CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 8th April 2000
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Millennium Conference in Westport
On Wednesday President McAleese will open a national millennium
conference on Christianity and Culture, entitled Fìs, which will
continue in the Hotel Westport, Co. Mayo, until Sunday 16 April. The
conference has been organized by the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Tuam,
Killala and Achonry and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tuam.
The speakers at the conference come from diverse backgrounds -
science, the arts, theology, philosophy, the media, psychology and
sociology. All will be seeking to see the face of God in our society and
asking how Christianity might better respond. Among the speakers will be
some familiar names to Anglicans. The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, a
priest of the Church of England and former President of Queen's College,
Cambridge, has written widely on science and religion; the Revd Marcus
Losack, a former Rector of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, has become well known
for his involvement in Celtic spirituality; and the Revd Dr David
Hewlett, formerly Lecturer in Systematic Theology in the Church of
Ireland Theological College, is now Principal of the South-West
Ministerial Training Course in the Church of England.
Details of the conference may be had from the Revd Gary Hastings, The
Rectory, Newport Road, Westport (Tel: 098-25127).
Today (Saturday) at 10.30 am in the Callan Hall, Maynooth College,
the Kildare Archaeological Society will host a Millennium Seminar on
"St Brigid and Kildare Cathedral". Among the speakers will be
the Dean of Kildare, the Very Revd Robert Townley, the Rector of
Dunboyne, the Revd Adrian Wilkinson, and Dr Raymond Gillespie, one of
the contributors to the forthcoming history of Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin, which is to be published by Four Courts Press in June.
Tomorrow (Sunday), Passion Sunday, RTE will broadcast the Sung
Eucharist from St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, where the preacher will
be the Dean of Cork, Dr Michael Jackson. The preacher at the Sung
Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, will be the Revd Dr
Graham Tomlin, Vice-Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, while in St
John's Church, Sandymount, the final address in the Lenten series on
"Servants of the Church" will be given by Dr Valerie Jones,
Dublin Diocesan Communications Officer. In St Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin, at Evensong the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will
give the Lenten address on the Apostles' Creed.
On Monday the clergy of the Diocese of Clogher begin their annual
residential conference in Dunfanaghy where the guest speaker will be the
former Bishop of Bradford, the Rt Revd Roy Williamson. In the Church of
Ireland Theological College, Dr Graham Tomlin will speak to the
ordinands on "Theological Formation for Orders".
In St Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore, on Tuesday evening the Choir of
Midleton College, will give a performance of Stainer's
"Crucifixion" . This will be repeated in Midleton College on
Wedneday evening after which a CD of the choir will be launched.
As part of the Jubilee celebrations a cross from the Pro-Cathedral in
Dublin is being taken through the diocese during Lent when it will rest
in a different church each day. St John's Church, Sandymount, has been
invited to have the cross on Thursday when there will be a short Prayer
Service of Reconciliation at 8.00 pm.
The final talks in the Lenten series on "Faith Matters for a New
Millennium" in Rathfarnham Parish Church will be held on Thursday
evening. The speakers on "A Down to Earth Faith" will be the
Revd Tom Gordon, Director of Extra-Mural Studies in the Theological
College, and Sr Una Agnew S.SL from Milltown Park.
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