CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 16th September 2000
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Busy Week in Dublin Cathedrals
September has, in recent years, become an increasingly busy month in
the Church of Ireland as the return after the summer break of schools
and colleges and diocesan and parish organizations coincides, in the
context of an increasingly vibrant society, of new initiatives in music,
exhibitions and other forms of outreach. Nowhere is this more apparent
than in the life of the two Dublin cathedrals.
In Christ Church today (Saturday) the Ulster Youth Choir will hold a
concert as part of their millennium tour while in St Patrick's the
assistant organist, David Leigh, will hold voice trials for the newly
formed Cathedral Girls' Choir. Indeed such is the increase of activity
in St Patrick's that Mr Louis Parminter has been appointed as a full
time verger - the first such appointment for many years.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in Christ Church there will be a
special service for the Irish Heart Transplant Association which will
mark the fifteenth anniversary of the first such operation in the Mater
Hospital. Many people who have carried out operations and who have
benefited from them will attend. An anniversary of a different kind will
be marked in St Patrick's where, at Evensong, the dean, Dr Robert
MacCarthy, will preach at the annual Commemoration of the Battle of
Britain. Later, tomorrow (Sunday) evening, at 8.30 pm, the popular BBC
Radio 2 programme Sunday Half Hour will be a broadcast recording of the
hymns sung at the Hymn Society Service in Christ Church in July.
A somewhat more exotic event will take place in Christ Church on
Tuesday when an exhibition by the Japanese meditative artist, Yashida
Kenji, will be opened in the south transept, and on Wednesday evening,
as part of the same event, there will be a concert by Liam O Maonlai and
Joji Hirota entitled Christ Church Unplugged.
Finally, on Thursday evening, the annual Diocesan Mothers' Union
Service will take place in Christ Church where the preacher will be the
Rector of Killiney, the Revd Ian Poulton.
All this activity takes place in the context of a full and exacting
round of worship and administration, There are sung services, morning
and evening, every day except Saturday in St Patrick's, while in Christ
Church there is Evensong on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday in addition
to the Sunday services.
There is, of course, much happening elsewhere. Today (Saturday) the
Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer will hold a Quiet Day in Holy Trinity
Church, Drumbo, where the witness will be Canon Raymond Fox, Rector of
Killaney and Carryduff.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Parish Eucharist from
Rathfarnham parish church where the ministerial team, uniquely in the
Church of Ireland, is the Revd Ted Woods, and his wife, the Revd Anne
Taylor. In Howth, where the rector is Canon Cecil Hyland, the Archbishop
of Dublin will dedicate a Garden of Remembrance.
On Tuesday the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan
McCormack, will lead the 46th Annual Craigs Quiet Day which is sponsored
by the Ballymena Clerical Union, and on Wednesday the annual conference
of the Irish College of Preachers begins in the Theological College. The
theme of the conference will be 'Unchaining the Word; an Introduction
to Expository Preaching Today' and the leader will be the Revd Peter
Ackroyd from London.
On Wednesday evening the Cashel and Ossory Mothers' Union Diocesan
Festival Service will be held in St Mary's Church, Carlow, where the
preacher will be the Rector of Delgany, the Revd Nigel Waugh, and on
Thursday the Archbishop of Armagh will institute the Revd Barry Paine to
the incumbency of Tynan, Aghavilly and Middletown.
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