CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 4 July 1998
Much Music in Many Churches
One of the great privileges which the Church of
Ireland enjoys, and one which it is able to share with others, is the
stewardship of many church buildings with a fine acoustic. Music, as
part of the liturgy, or in the form of concerts and recitals, is
increasingly part of the Church of Ireland scene and particularly during
the summer months when visiting choirs and instrumental ensembles
perform in churches and cathedrals throughout the country. During the
coming week the Church of Ireland will host an interesting variety of
such events.
Today (Saturday) in Co. Dublin the St Cecelia Choir
from Houston, U.S.A. will give a concert in All Saints Church, Blackrock
in aid of the organ and church funds while in St Mary's Church, Howth
Chetham's School of Music Chamber Choir and Ensemble, from Manchester,
will give a recital to support church funds and a health care project in
southern Malawi. The visitors from Manchester will also give concerts in
St Barrahane's Church, Castletownshend, Co. Cork tomorrow (Sunday) in
aid of the church restoration fund and in St Mary's Church, Killarney on
Tuesday when the proceeds will go to the Kerry Hospice Foundation.
Tomorrow morning (Sunday) Christ Church Baroque,
conducted by Mark Duley and led by Therese Timoney, will combine with
the Christ Church Cathedral Choir to perform Marc Charpentier's Missa
Assumpta est Maria in the context of the cathedral's Sung Eucharist. In
St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork the Choral Eucharist will be sung by
Cantamus.
In St Mary's Church, Killarney there will be a
recital on Wednesday evening by the French ensemble Les Rossignolets
Petit Chanteur from Dunkerque and at the same venue on Thursday the
Lakeview Singers and Band from Indianapolis will give a concert of
sacred music including classical soul, up beat contemporary and praise
music. Retiring collections from these concerts will be donated to local
charities.
In Dublin the lunchtime recital in St Patrick's
Cathedral on Wednesday will be given by Paul Collins and on Friday the
Edinburgh University Singers will perform in Christ Church Cathedral at
1.15 pm as part of the Cathedral Arts Summer Concerts Series.
This morning (Saturday) there will be an
Interdenominational Service of Reconciliation on Arthur's Hill,
Mountaintown, near Navan which has been organized by the 1798
Commemoration Service Committee of which the secretary is the Rector of
Kells, the Revd William Ritchie. The service will be followed by an
historical lecture at Mountainstown House by Liam Chambers. In Belfast
there will be a guided tour of the C.S. Lewis Trail as part of the
celebrations to mark the centenary of the birth of the famous Christian
apologist.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is the National Day of
Commemoration when the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will join
the other church leaders at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. Later in the
day the archbishop will be in Finglas to re-dedicate St Canice's Church
which was the object of an arson attack earlier this year. The Bishop of
Cork, the Rt Revd Roy Warke, will visit Crookhaven and Fanlobbus where
he will dedicate a side chapel. In Co. Tipperary the Church of Ireland
Youth Council's New Beginnings camp for twelve to fifteen year olds will
conclude in Gurteen Agricultural College.
In York, at a fringe meeting of the General Synod of
the Church of England, which has been organized by Affirming
Catholicism, Canon Kenneth Kearon, the Church of Ireland's leading
figure in the increasingly confusing area of christian ethics, will
speak on "Singing in a Strange Land - Articulating the Church's
Voice in Moral Issues".
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