CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 29th April 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Millennium Address in St. Patrick's
Tomorrow, at Evensong in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the fourth
in the series of millennium addresses, entitled "Hopes for the New
Millennium" will be delivered. The speaker will be the poet, Seamus
Heaney.
The series of addresses will continue monthly until the end of the
year, and many other famous figures have committed themselves to speak.
The President, Mrs McAleese, and her predecessor, Mrs Mary Robinson, now
United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, will speak in June and
December respectively.
The world of politics will be represented by Dr Garret FitzGerald and
Sir Reg Empey, while in August Senator David Norris, politician, littérateur
and member of the cathedral congregation, will be the speaker. The
churches are represented by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames,
and Cardinal Edward Cassidy from the Pontifical Council for the
Promotion of Christian Unity.
Tomorrow the services in St Patrick’s Cathedral will be sung by the
Abbeydale Singers from Sheffield. The choir will sing for the close of
the Easter octave in the chapel of Trinity College in the evening. The
Trinity College Chapel Choir will sing Matins in St Ann’s Church,
Dawson Street, where the preacher will be the Trinity chaplain, Dr Alan
McCormack. In Christ Church Cathedral the services will be sung by Cor
Dyfed from Wales.
The Schola Cantorum choir from Lulea in Sweden will sing at the 10.30
a.m. service tomorrow in Christ Church, Dun Laoghaire, and this will be
followed by a short concert in the church hall.
On Monday evening they will give a concert in St Columba’s Church,
Kells, Co Meath, with the proceeds going to aid the rebuilding of the
church in Romania. On Wednesday and Thursday the Bishop of Meath and
Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, will preside at a retreat for the clergy of
his dioceses in Bellinter. The retreat will be directed by the Rev Roger
Devonshire, rector of Pitlochry.
The 150th anniversary of the Church of St John the Evangelist,
Sandymount, will be marked on Thursday evening by a celebration of the
Eucharist at 8 p.m. The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will
preside and preach and the service will be sung by members of Our
Lady’s Choral Society.
The church, opened for worship on March 24th, 1850, was built with
Caen stone in the Anglo-Norman style, and in recent years its external
appearance has been greatly improved by a programme of cleaning and
stone replacement. St John’s has always been a centre for the Catholic
liturgical tradition within the Church of Ireland.
With the collapse of the communist regimes in central and eastern
Europe and the desire of many countries to join the European Union,
relations between the Orthodox churches and the churches of the West
have become of increasing importance. On Friday the Church and Society
Commission of the Conference of European Churches will begin a five-day
meeting in Moscow at the invitation of the Russian Orthodox Church, and
Dr Kenneth Milne will attend as an observer on behalf of the Irish
Council of Churches.
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