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Dublin housing appeal

The Church has a long and honourable tradition of care of the poor and the marginalized which, despite the enormous wealth of modern society, is still needed. Happily, as a current project amply demonstrates, there is still a willingness to help.

Donations to the Dublin & Glendalough Refugee Housing Appeal have now reached €115,000. Parishes and individuals throughout the United Dioceses have been supporting the project enthusiastically and are working hard to raise funds to make a difference for people who are emerging from Direct Provision. Already €80,000 has been shared with the Irish Refugee Council (IRC) for their housing project. The appeal and its finances are under the governance of the dioceses.

The IRC’s holistic programme provides transitional accommodation for people who have been given refugee status in Ireland. This takes pressure off the individuals who find it almost impossible to access private rented accommodation in today’s market and in turn takes pressure off organisations who work with homeless people. The IRC programme also provides individually tailored supports to help people access education, employment, support services and health services, and build social connections.

The fundraising target for the dioceses is €300,000 in three years and Archbishop Michael Jackson has thanked everyone who has played a part in reaching the current total, while Nick Henderson, CEO of the Irish Refugee Council, said that the funds raised provide vital support for the project.

And the project continues to be supported. Next Wednesday evening in Sandford parish church, at 8pm, Sandford and St Philip’s Choral Scholars & Choral Union, with Warwick Harte (Tenor), Michael Lee (Bass) and David Leigh (Organ), will sing Stainer’s The Crucifixion, in aid of the Dublin & Glendalough Refugee Housing Appeal.

Tomorrow (Sunday) the choir of St Ann’s church, Dublin, will give a Palm Sunday performance of works by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger – his Mass for Double Choir in E flat and his Stabat Mater. The performance starts at 1pm with tickets available at the door. In St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, there will be an organ recital at 4.15pm by Dr David Whittle, Director of Music at Leicester Grammar School.

The former primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Rt Revd David Chillingworth, will be in Douglas union of parishes in the Diocese of Cork for Holy Week this year. Bishop Chillingworth’s links with Cork and Douglas go back through his father’s family – his grandfather was Rector of Carrigtwohill. Bishop Chillingworth will be involved in services on Palm Sunday and will preach each evening throughout Holy Week in St Luke’s Church. While he is in the Diocese, Bishop Chillingworth will pay a courtesy visit to the Bishop of Cork and will preach at the annual Chrism Eucharist in St Fachtna’s cathedral in Rosscarbery on Maundy Thursday.

Next Wednesday evening the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral group of parishes will sing a service of Tenebrae by candlelight at 7pm in St Werburgh’s church.

On Good Friday the speaker at the traditional Three–Hour Liturgy in St Ann’s church, Dublin, will be the Director of the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Canon Maurice Elliott. During the service, which will begin at 12 noon, the choir will sing Allegri’s Misere, Tallis’s Lamentations of Jeremiah, and Rheinberger’s Stabat Mater. In the evening at 8pm in St Ann’s church, the Mornington Singers, conducted Orla Flanagan will present ‘Tenebrae’, an evening of a cappella choral music for Good Friday, featuring Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories for the day, Mendelssohn’s dramatic setting of Psalm 22 and Allegri’s much–loved Miserere mei, Deus.

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