CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 15th April 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Holy Week Celebrations
Tomorrow (Sunday) is Palm Sunday when RTE will broadcast a parish
eucharist from St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway, where the rector
is Canon Patrick Towers. BBC Radio Ulster will carry a service from St
Anne's Church, Dungannon, with the choirs and musicians from the Royal
School, at which the preacher will be the Revd Dr Kenneth Wilson. In
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where there will be a blessing and
procession of palms, the visitors will include members of one of the
London livery companies, the Worshipful Company of Engineers, who will
be holding their annual meeting in Dublin. At Evensong in St Patrick's
Cathedral the final episcopal Lenten address on the Apostles' Creed will
be given by the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke.
On Monday and Tuesday evenings, in St Patrick's Cathedral, Compline,
a contemplative evening office sung to plainsong and Tudor polyphony,
will be sung by the Close Chorale and on Wednesday there will be a
service of Tenebrae. Christ Church Baroque and the Christ Church
Cathedral Choir, directed by Mark Duley, will perform Bach's St
John's Passion in Christ Church Cathedral on Tuesday evening. The
performance will feature the use not only of period string instruments
but also period wind instruments.
The clergy of the diocese of Dublin and Glendalough will renew their
ordination vows at the annual Maunday Service in Christ Church Cathedral
on Thursday when the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will also
consecrate the oil of healing.
On Good Friday RTE will broadcast The Last Hour from Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin, with the Very Revd John Paterson, the Revd
Dermot Dunne and the Cathedral Girls' Choir. In St Patrick's Cathedral
the Liturgy of Good Friday and the Preaching of the Cross will be
conducted by Dr Herbert O'Driscoll, who is a Canon of Washington
Cathedral. The former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, will conduct a
Three Hour Service in St Mark's Church, Armagh.
During Holy Week the Dean of St Patrick's, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will
be preaching in Whitechurch, Co. Dublin, while the Dean of Cork, Dr
Michael Jackson, will be in St Mark's Church, Newtownards. In Dundrum,
where the parishioners of Taney will be joined by those from Rathmichael
and Tullow, the Holy Week preacher will be Canon Herbert O'Driscoll.
On Sunday evening in St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, the Bishop of
Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will ordain Lady Stella
Durand as a deacon to serve as curate in the Kiltegan and Hackettstown
group of parishes. The preacher at the service will be the Revd Declan
Smith, formerly Mission Personnel Secretary of CMS Ireland.
The Johnstown High School Madrigal Choir and the Vosburgh Handbell
Choir from Upstate, New York, will give concerts in St Nicholas'
Collegiate Church, Galway, tomorrow (Sunday) evening and in St Fin
Barre's Cathedral, Cork, on Tuesday evening. On Friday evening the Vox
media Choir from Stockholm will present a programme of music and
readings for Good Friday in St Patrick's Church, Greystones, while in St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Hibernian Chamber Orchestra and the
Goethe Institut Choir, with choirs from Germany and Italy, conducted by
Eric Rupprecht will give a concert in aid of the Carmichael Centre.
The Revd Dr Ian Ellis, Rector of Newcastle, Co. Down, has been
elected as President of the Irish Council of Churches. He is the author
of Vision and Reality. A Survey of Twentieth Century Irish
Inter-Church Relationships and of "A Quest for Unity"
which appeared in the APCK volume of millennium essays entitled A
Time to Build.
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