CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 12 September 1998
Primate at WCC Celebrations
The Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will
represent the Church of Ireland at the ceremomies to mark the 50th
anniversary of the establishment of the World Council of Churches. These
celebrations will begin in Amsterdam on Friday and continue until the
following Sunday.
The WCC was formally constituted in Amsterdam on 23
August 1948 and represents the fusion of two movements, "Life and
Work" and "Faith and Order". Work on this process had
been in hand since 1937 but the establishment of a formal constitution
was delayed by World War II. In 1961 the International Missionary
Council was integrated with the WCC. At its formation in 1948 the WCC
had 147 member churches and by 1993 this number had risen to 322. With
the exception of the Roman Catholic Church and the Unitarians the
Council includes churches from all ther main confessions and
denominations.
The work of the WCC is divided into four units: unity
and renewal; mission, education and witness; justice, peace and
creation; sharing and service. Much of this work is reflected in an
extensive publications programme encompassing both books and
periodicals, much of which is available in the Represntative Church Body
Library.
This evening (Saturday) in St Fin Barre's Cathedral,
Cork the Aberfan Male Voice Choir from Wales will give a recital to mark
the 30th anniversary of the choir's foundation in the wake of the
Aberfan pit disaster of 1966.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service
from Frankfield, Co. Cork, led by the Archdeacon of Cork, the Ven. Robin
Bantry White. Morning Prayer, from St Paul's Church, Ballymachugh, Co.
Caven will be broadcast on Northern Sound while in the evening the BBC
Radio 2 programme "Sunday Half Hour" will come from Agherton
Parish Church, Portstewart. A new series of "Gloria",
featuring the best in both medieval and modern sacred choral music, will
begin on RTE FM3 at 8.00 pm. As before the programmes will be introduced
by Tim Thurston, who for the initial brodcast has selected a chant by
Hildegard of Bingen, motets by Melgas, Johann Christoph Bach, Poulenc
and Pizzetti, and excerpts from a setting of the Mass by Du Caurroy.
In Dublin the Revd Graeme Brown, formerly Leader of
the Iona Community, will preach at the Sung Eucharist In St John's
Church, Sandymount while in Raheny and Coolock, Canon John Kanyikwa,
Rector of St John the Evangelist Theological Seminary in Zambia, will
preach at the beginning of a six week visit to this country which is
supported by the Church Missionsary Society Ireland. In the evening, the
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will ordain the Revd Lynda
Peilow, curate of Castleknock, to the priesthood in Christ Church
Cathedral where the preacher will be the Bishop of Porvoo, Finland. The
Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, Dr Maurice Stewart, will preach at the
Friends' Festival Service in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod and the
Representative Church Body will meet in the Church of Ireland College of
Education, Rathmines on Tuesday.
On Thursday the Dublin and Glendalough Mothers' Union
Festival Service will be held in Christ Church Cathedral where the
preacher will be the Archdeacon of Glendalough, the Ven. Edgar Swann. In
the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook there will be an Autumn Fayre in aid of
St Mary's Home, Pembroke Park.
In Christ Church, Taney on Friday a Festival of
Flowers, entitled "The Celtic Twilight at the Harvest Moon"
will begin and continue until the following Sunday. The festival will
feature the work of over one hundred floral artists from Dublin, Meath,
Wexford, Wicklow and Kildare.
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