CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 25th November 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Dedication of bells in Taney
As a millennium project the parish of Taney set itself the goal of
raising the funds and undertaking the work which would be necessary to
re-hang in Christ Church, Taney, the bells from St George's Church,
Temple Street. St George's was closed as a place of worship in 1990 and
while some of the furnishings were transferred to St Thomas' Church in
Cathal Brugha Street and elsewhere, the re-location of the bells was
always likely to be a challenge.
The success of Taney parish in meeting that challenge has proved to
be of inestimable benefit to the Church of Ireland. A valuable part of
our ecclesiastical heritage has been saved, new people have been
introduced to the art of bell ringing, and the residents of Dundrum now
enjoy being "summoned by bells" on Sunday mornings.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin will
preside and preach in Taney when the St George's Bells will be
re-dedicated and rung by the Taney Association of Changeringers.
Representatives of the National Millennium Committee together with
others who contributed to this project will be present as will members
of the Irish Change Ringers Association and bell ringers from around the
country.
Today (Saturday), in Rathmichael Parish Centre, the Guild of
Readers in the Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough will hold its annual
Quiet Day which will be conducted by the distinguished writer on
spirituality, Canon A.M. Allchin, and this evening the Dublin Welsh Male
Voice Choir will give a concert in St John's Church, Sandymount, in aid
of the church restoration fund.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise a parish eucharist with
the congregations of Enniskerry and Kilbride, Co. Dublin, where the
rector is Canon Richard Rountree. In the Chapel of Trinity College,
Dublin, the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Bishop of Meath
and Kildare while in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, the chapter sermon
on "Mission" will be preached by the Revd Richard Dadswell. In
the evening the Rt Revd Michael Mayes will be enthroned as Bishop of
Killaloe in St Flannan's Cathedral. In Dublin, the Archbishop's Awards
in Church Music will be presented at Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral
while the Irish Beekeepers Centenary Service will be held in St
Patrick's.
On Monday evening in Marsh's Library the former Dean of St Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin, Dr Victor Griffin, will launch Memoir in Sermons,
a book by his successor Dr Maurice Stewart. Another launch will take
place on Tuesday, in the Old Library of Trinity College, where Paul
Herriot of Lyric FM will speak about "Incarnation - Songs on the
First Coming" a CD featuring the College Chapel Choir. On Tuesday
and Wednesday the bishops will be on retreat.
At Evensong, on Thursday, in Trinity College Chapel the centenary of
one of the death of Oscar Wilde will be marked. The Chapel Choir will
give the first performance of a setting, by John McNamara, of parts of
Wilde's De Profundis, Senator David Norris will read the Lessons,
and Professor Brendan Kennelly will deliver a memorial address.
On Friday, in Swords, the former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Donald
Caird, will launch "Greatly Benefited", a history of the Old
Borough School which has been written by Andrew Whiteside.
The Irish School of Ecumenics will hold a one day conference in
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Saturday 2 December. "For You
Were Strangers. Towards an Ecumenical Response on Refugees and
Racism" at which the key note address will be given by the Revd Dr
Sahr Yambasu, a Methodist minister from Sierra Leone who currently
ministers in Wicklow.
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