CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 11th November 2000
From: The RCB
Library
Email: RCB Library
New Parish Register Publication
The sixth volume in the Representative Church Body Library series of
parish registers has been published. Unlike the previous volumes this is
a reprint of an earlier publication but one which is long out of print.
James Mills' Registers of
the Parish of St John the Evangelist, Dublin, 1619-1699
was published in 1906 and was the first to be produced by the
Parish Register Society of Dublin. Mills, who was Deputy Keeper
of the Public Records, set a high standard in his edition which
included a comprehensive index, a most valuable introduction,
and useful appendices of additional burial records and cess payers.
Mills' edition has been re-published in its entirety by the RCB
Library and is available through booksellers or direct from the
Library at £13.95.
Today (Saturday), in association with the Church Pastoral Aid
Society, the Sunday School Society of Ireland will hold a Training Day
in St Brigid's parish, Stillorgan, from 10.30 am until 4.00 pm. In
Dean's Grange Library an exhibition on "South County Dublin's
Christian Past" will open and will continue for one week.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Sung Matins from St
Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, where the Dean is the Very Revd Norman
Lynas, and in the afternoon in St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick the Rt Revd
Michael Mayes will be enthroned as Bishop of Limerick. At 5.50 pm in
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the final concert in the Bach Festival
will be given by Christ Church Baroque and the Cathedral Choir with
guest soloists.
In St Macartan's Cathedral, Enniskillen, the former Bishop of Connor,
Dr Samuel Poyntz, will be the Remembrance Day preacher while in St Fin
Barres' cathedral the Bishop of Cork will preach on the theme of
"Reconciliation". There will be no morning service in Cashel
Cathedral but instead the Dublin Male Voice Choir will lead a
Remembrance Service in Magorban parish church at 11.00 am. The preacher
at the Order of Remembrance in Trinity College Chapel will be Professor
Andrew Mayes and at Evensong, in St Patrick's Cathedral, the Remembrance
Day address will be given by the Abbot of Glenstall, the Rt Revd
Christopher Dillon.
On Monday, Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral will, for the first
time, be sung by the Cathedral Girls' Choir, and on Tuesday the Christ
Church Cathedral Girls' Choir will sing the Eucharist, at 4.00 pm, for
the Feast of St Laurence O'Toole, the patron saint of Dublin.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, on Tuesday evening, the Archbishop
of Armagh will commission the Revd Charles Irwin as Church of Ireland Mission
Resource Person, while Bishop Poyntz will represent the Primate at the
opening, in London, of the General Synod of
the Church of England. In the Chapel of St Columba's College,
Dublin, the Revd Trevor Williams from the Corrymeela Centre will speak
on "Together towards Reconciliation" in the College's
Millennium Lecture Series.
On Wednesday the Cathedral Libraries and Archives Association will
meet in York. Among the Irish representatives will be the Dean of
Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles, who has been most active in promoting the
Bolton Library, and Mrs Sue Hemmens from Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin. The Christian Studies Centre in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork,
which is celebrating twenty-five years of witness, has as the theme of
its autumn session "Jubilee". On Wednesday at 8.00 pm the
Centre will host a public lecture by Mrs Bet Aalen on "Jubilee and
Debt" and this is open to all.
Friday is the Feast of St Doulagh when the preacher at the patronal
festival service in Balgriffin will be Ms Sandra Pragnell, an ordinand
in the Theological College.
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