CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 3rd June 2000
From: The RCB
Library
Email: RCB Library
New Book by Bishop Warke
A new book by the former Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Roy Warke, has
been published. In Search of the Living God
is a series of biblical reflections on the theme that God is the great
binding cord which runs through the Bible. The book is reflective in
another sense for the origins of many of the chapters have been sermons
preached by the author, especially when he was Rector of Zion and Bishop
of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
The publication of Anglican sermons may be undergoing something of a
revival at present. The Church Times sermon competition and the
sermons of the renowned preacher, Canon Eric James, have attracted
considerable attention in the Church of England. At home, the
publication of Bishop Warke's sermons prefigures the appearance, later
this year, of a selection of the sermons of the greatest exponent of the
English language to have served in the Church of Ireland. Wisdom and
Wasteland. The Sermons of Jeremy Taylor, edited by the noted
Catholic scholar, Dr Thomas Carroll, will be published by Four Courts
Press in November.
In Search of the Living God is published by Columba Press at IR£7.99.
The royalties from the sales of the book will be donated, by Bishop
Warke, to the "St Fin Barre's Beyond 2000" project, and the
cover illustration is an attractive photograph of the cathedral taken by
Mrs Eileen Warke.
Today (Saturday) Affirming Catholicism will hold a pilgrimage
in Armagh which will begin with matins in St Patrick's Cathedral at
11.00 am and conclude with a celebration of the Eucharist in Lisnadill
parish church at 4.00 pm. In Kilmore a Millennium Flower Festival begins
in St Fethlimidh's Cathedral and continues until Monday.
Tomorrow (Sunday) in St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher, a
window in memory of the Rt Revd Alan Buchanan, Bishop of Clogher,
1958-69, will be dedicated. The service will be sung by the Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin, Girl's Choir and the preacher will be the Dean
of Christ Church, the Very Revd John Paterson.
On Monday and Tuesday the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory and the Bishop
of Tuam will be in Liverpool for a meeting of European Anglican bishops
who will be considering the interpretation of faith.
There will be an organ recital in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. on
Wednesday evening at 8.00 pm when Mr Timothy Allen, Organist and Master
of the Choristers in St Columb's Cathedral, Derry, will play a programme
including works by Bach, Messiaen, Howells and Vivaldi. The event will
be preceded by the unveiling, in the Deanery, of a portrait of the Dean
of St Patrick's, Dr Robert MacCarthy, by Derek Hill.
On Thursday the Limerick, Killaloe and Ardfert Diocesan Synod will be
held in Adare, and on Friday the West Glendalough Choral Festival will
take place.
In Taughboyne, Co. Donegal, on Friday, St Columba's Day, the
Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will preach at a service to
commemorate the fourteenth century of the death of St Baithin, a cousin
and companion of St Columba. St Columba's Day will also be the start of
a Diocesan Millennium Celebration in the Diocese of Raphoe which will
open with a celebration of the Eucharist in St Columba's Church, Gartan,
where the celebrant and preacher will be the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe,
Dr James Mehaffey.
A new Diocesan Centre for the Dioceses of Meath and Kildare has been
opened in the former Moyglare Church. This will house the Diocesan
Office and the Diocesan Registry. The official address is Meath &
Kildare Diocesan Centre, Moyglare, Maynooth, Co. Kildare (tel. +353 (0)1
6292163; fax +353 (0)1 6292153; e-mail Meath and Kildare Diocesan Office).
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