CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 7th October 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Bishops' Appeal Grants
At its most recent meeting the Bishops' Appeal, which is the Church
of Ireland's principal vehicle for supporting the developing world, made
eight grants.
Five grants were awarded to projects in the Indian sub-continent. The
work of Christian Aid in Bangaladesh in funding development programmes
for displaced people and in developing income generating schemes were
supported as was Christain Aid's work in developing community
organization, sustainable agriculture and credit programmes in southern
India. Also in India, funds have been made available for the purchase of
motor cycles to assist with transport in the vast rural area of the
Diocese of North east India, and additional support has been provided
for an AIDS awareness programme which is managed by Tearfund.
In Africa the work of CMSI in developing vocational skills among
young people in Uganda and promoting AIDS awareness in the southern
Sudan has been grant aided, as has the work of the Namirembe Resource
Centre in Uganda which provides hostel accommodation and educational
facilities for girls.
Today (Saturday) the Third Order of St Francis will meet in
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. In the University of Ulster at
Coleraine the Diocese of Connor will have a Diocesan Generation Day
which will include a specially commissioned video about the diocese, an
Act of Celebration and Worship, and the launch of a new strategy for
ministry.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Parish Eucharist from
St Mark's Church, Ballymacash, Co. Antrim, where the rector is the Revd
George Irwin. In St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, the Bishop of
Portsmouth, the Rt Revd Kenneth Stevenson, will preach at the patronal
festival while the visiting preacher in Howth, Co. Dublin, will be the
Bishop of Cork. The Chansons Choir from Perth in Scotland will sing
Mattins in St Fachtna's Cathedral, Ross, and later in the day, at
Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, there will be the Annual
Commemoration of those who lost their lives on Irish ships, 1939-45.
On Monday daily services resume in Trinity College Chapel where the
Chaplain, Dr Alan McCormack, will be delighted to welcome visitors.
The first in a new series of lunchtime lectures in Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, begins on Tuesday at 1.25 pm. The series, entitled
"Episcopal Episodes. Some Archbishops of Dublin &
Glendalough" begins with a lecture by Niav Gallagher on Archbishop
Alexander Bicknor. In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, at 5.35 pm there
will be a memorial service for the artist Dr Derek Hill at which the
address will be given by Dr Bruce Arnold. An exhibition of paintings
which have been inspired by the artistic challenge which St Fin Barre's
Cathedral, Cork, makes on the eye of the worshipper will be opened in
the Cathedral on Tuesday evening. Entitled "The Divine Image and
the Human Likeness" the exhibition is the work of Bill Griffin and
will run throughout the month of October and into November.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Synod
will be held in Taney Parish Centre, Dundrum. The Cashel, Ossory,
Waterford, Leighlin and Lismore Synod will take place in Kilkenny Castle
on Wednesday and on Thursday the Ferns Diocesan Synod will be held.
The speaker at the Thursday lunchtime series, "I Believe",
in St Thomas' Church, Cathal Brugha, Dublin will be Senator Mary Henry.
In St Patrick's Cathedral the Archbishop of Dublin will be the celebrant
at a Sung Eucharist which will use a new setting by Colin Mawby.
"The St Patrick's Setting" has been specially commissioned as
part of the Cathedral's millennium programme.
On Friday in St James' Church, Mallow, the annual Thomas Davis
Commemoration will be held.
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