CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 17th June 2000
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Focus on Christ Church
Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday when Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, or
as it is more properly called the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity,
will celebrate its patronal festival.
In the morning the choir and organ will be joined by an orchestra for
the Sung Eucharist at which the preacher will be the Bishop of
Salisbury, the Rt Revd David Stancliffe. At Choral Evensong, when the
Cathedral will mark the publication of its new history, the preacher
will be the Church of Ireland's most distinguished historian, the Revd
Dr Adrian Empey MRIA.
Following Evensong the Taoiseach will officially launch Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin. A History in the newly restored cathedral
crypt. The history, which has been edited by the Church of Ireland
Historiographer, Dr Kenneth Milne, is the work of a small team of
contributors who have been engaged on this project for five years, and
it is published by Four Courts Press.
Tomorrow night Ceiliúradh, an international
festival of Christian liturgy, begins in Christ Church and continues
until Friday. The festival will be officially opened by President
McAleese on Monday morning. As well as academic and practical sessions,
for which participants must register, there will be a range of public
events. A series of lunchtime lectures will chart the evolution of the
liturgy of the Church of Ireland from medieval times to the age of the
computer, there will be a Songs of Praise service on Tuesday night, a
cello recital by Steve Doane on Thursday night, and a performance of the
Rachmaninov Vespers by the Cathedral Choir on Friday night. On Thursday
the seven daily offices of the monastic church will be sung beginning
with vigils at 6.30 am and concluding with compline at 9.45 pm. Among
the guest singers will be Schola Cantorum, the Cisterian Sisters of
Glencain Abbey and the Benedictine Monks from Glenstall.
Today (Saturday) the Dean of St Patrick's, Dr Robert
MacCarthy, will have his annual gift day while this evening the
Cathedral Choir will sing in St Nicholas' Church, Dunlavin as part of
the local arts festival.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Prayer for
Trinity Sunday from St Martin's Church, Ballymacarrett, Belfast where
the rector is the Revd Ivan Betts. In Lisburn Cathedral, the Bishop of
Connor will ordain Christopher Bennett, William Nixon, Louise Stewart
and Alice Stewart to the diaconate, while in Belfast Cathedral the
Bishop of Down and Dromore will ordain as deacons Melanie Lacey and
Daniel Owen. In St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, the Bishop of Cashel
and Ossory will ordain Michael Johnston to the diaconate while the
Bishop of Kilmore will raise the Revd William Stafford to the
priesthood.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, there will be Festival Evensong
for the Friends of the cathedral when the preacher will be the Dean of
St Albans, Dr Christopher Lewis. At the same service the Revd Paul
Houston, Rector of Clondalkin, will be admitted as a minor canon.
There will be a "Feast of Sacred Music" in St Patrick's on
Monday night when the Cathedral Choir will be joined by the choirs of
the Pro-Cathedral and St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin. The programme
will include a rare performance of Thomas Tallis's forty part motet Spem
in Alium.
On Tuesday the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan
McCormack, and the Chapel Choir, will be received by President McAleese
at Áras an Uachtaráin before their tour of New York which begins on 28
June. The Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Representative
Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin.
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