CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 22nd April 2000
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Bishops' Appeal Grants
The Bishops' Appeal, which is the Church of Ireland's principal
vehicle for assisting the developing world, has made grants totalling £113,000
this month.
In response to war and disaster, funds received from parishes
specifically for those purposes, have been channelled to previously
supported projects through Christian Aid. Diakonia Agapes' work with
Kosovan refugees has been supported, as too has been the work of the
Churches Steering Committee in Turkey which is dealing with the
consequences of earthquake. Relief from floods in Venezuela and
Mozambique, and a re-seeding programme in the dioceses of Mundroa and
Cuibet in the Sudan, have also been assisted.
The Bishops' Appeal Committee has also responded to the worsening
famine in the Horn of Africa with a grant of £20,000 to Christian Aid
to support the work of the Ogaden Welfare Society's feeding programme. A
continuing response to this famine is dependent upon the receipt of
further contributions form the parishes.
Aside from the immediate needs of the victims of war and disaster,
the Bishop's Appeal made grants to six projects. A Christian Aid scheme
to rebuild a school in Armenia and a CMSI development training project
in Rwanda were assisted. Two grants were made to SPCK for educational
projects in Sierra Leone and India, while a savings and credit scheme in
Tanzania and a wheelchair project in Honduras were also supported.
This evening (Saturday), at 9.00 pm, in Christ Church Cathedral, the
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, assisted by the clergy of the
cathedral and the cathedral parishes will lead the Easter Vigil. After
the vigil of readings in the darkened nave, the paschal candle will be
lit in the ruins of the medieval chapter house and, following the return
procession into the cathedral, the Easter Eucharist will be sung.
Tomorrow, Easter Day will be celebrated in churches and cathedrals
throughout the country with the bishops, by tradition, preaching in
their diocesan cathedrals. RTE will broadcast the Eucharist of the
Resurrection form St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, while in St Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin, the preacher at the Festival Eucharist will be the
Revd Dr Herbert O'Driscoll from Washington Cathedral. In Christ Church,
Clifden, the service will be sung by the Vox Media Choir, from
Stockholm, and this will be followed by a short recital.
On Wednesday the Dean of St Patrick's, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will
speak to the Old Carlow Society on "The Clergy and the Parishes of
the Church of Ireland in Co, Carlow since the Reformation", and on
Thursday, at Choral Evensong, in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin,
the Chaplain, Dr Alan McCormack will conduct an Act of Thanksgiving for
the Gift of Sport.
President McAleese will visit St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork on
Friday and will attend the Final of the St Fin Barre's Beyond 2000
Debates for Transition Year Students.
This week the Choir of St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin, will be
singing the services in Gloucester Cathedral. The choir has previously
sung in the cathedrals of Ripon, Hereford, Exeter, Lichfield, Worcester
and St David's, as well as in Paris and Chartres.
Details of the programme for Ceiliuradh, the international festival of
Christian liturgy, past, present and future, which is to be held in
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin from 18 to 24 June, are now available
from the Braemor Institute, Braemor Park, Dublin 14 (Tel: 01-4923695;
Fax: 01-4923082; Email Tom Gordon.).
Those intending to enrol for Ceiliuradh might find of interest the
current issue of the Anglican Theological Review which has a
series of contributions under the general heading of "Unbound!
Anglican Worship Beyond the Prayer Book".
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