CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 9th September 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Launch of New Hymnal
This afternoon (Saturday), in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, there
will be a service to launch the fifth edition of the Church Hymnal which
has been published by Oxford University Press. Choirs and congregations
from Church of Ireland parishes will join, under the baton of John
Dexter, to sing a selection from the new hymnal. The book will be
launched by the BBC broadcaster, Pam Rhodes, and dedicated by the
Archbishop of Armagh.
Pam Rhodes, who is well known for her association with the Songs of
Praise programme, will speak with some of those who have been involved
with the project. Among those to be interviewed will be Dr Donald
Davison, the music editor, pupils from Strandtown Primary School,
Belfast, the Bishop of Down and Dromore and Canon Michael Burrows, who
were both members of the Hymnal Revision Committee, and Ms June Howard,
the Committee's Honorary Secretary.
The Church Hymnal is the work of the Hymnal Revision Committee which
has been meeting since 1994 under the chairmanship of the recently
retired Bishop of Limerick, the Rt. Revd Edward Darling. Sing to the
Word, a guide to the new hymnal, by Bishop Darling, will be published
shortly by Oxford.
The service will begin at 3.00 pm and the congregation is invited to
a 'warm up' at 2.30 pm. All are welcome to attend.
Later in the afternoon the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Maurice
Ahern, will officially open the restored guild chapel of St Anne in St
Audeon's Church, Cornmarket. The restoration work has been carried Out
by Duchas which will be organizing guided tours of the chapel and the
parish church where the vicar is Canon John Crawford.
Next week the Bishop of St David's and his clergy will be in Dublin
for a study conference. Among those who will address them will be the
Bishop of Meath and Kildare and the Church of Ireland Historiographer,
Dr Kenneth Milne, who will brief the visitors about the historical
dimension on the Church of Ireland within the Anglican Communion.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Parish Eucharist from St
Nicholas' Church, Adare, where the rector is the Ven. Michael Nuttall.
In Clane, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will rededicate the clock
tower of the Church of St Michael and All Angels which has been restored
in memory of the late Mrs Lily Stewart of Prosperous.
On Monday evening the Bishop of Down and Dromore will institute the
Revd Denise Blakely to the incumbency of Carrowdore and Millisle, and on
the following evening the Archbishop of Dublin will introduce the Revd
Katherine Poulton as Bishop's Curate of the parishes of St George and St
Thomas. On Wednesday the Revd David Johnston will be instituted to the
parishes of Sixmilecross and Termonmaguirke by the Archbishop of Armagh.
In Dublin on Thursday morning the annual fair in aid of St Mary's
Home for Elderly Ladies will be held in the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook.
In the evening, in Christ Church Cathedral, Therese Timony and Mark
Duley will direct Christ Church Baroque in a performance, using period
instruments, of works by Vivaldi, Corelli, Pergolesi and Handel.
The Revd Bernadette Daly has been appointed as Director of Pastoral
Studies in the Church of Ireland Theological College.
Mrs Daly, who was ordained in 1997, is Curate in Taney parish,
Dublin, and Chancellor's Vicar in St Patrick's Cathedral. She will bring
to her new post much relevant experience including her work as a member
of the Ethics Committee of the North Eastern Health Board and her long
involvement with the ISPCC.
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