CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 26 September 1998
"I Believe..."
A new series of the popular lunchtime talks,
organized by the Revd Patrick Semple, and entitled "I
believe...", will begin in St Thomas' Church, Cathal Brugha Street,
Dublin on Thursday at 1.10 pm when journalist and broadcaster, Vincent
Browne, will speak. On the subsequent Thursdays in October the speakers,
all of whom are household names, will be the actor and director, Alan
Stanford; novelist and columnist, Maeve Binchy; newsreader and theatre
critic Emer O'Kelly; and the former taoiseach, Dr Garret Fitzgerald.
Each of the sessions will last until 1.50, admission
will be free and a soup and cheese lunch will be available.
In Dublin this morning (Saturday), in Raheny parish
hall, CMSI will have an Autumn Fair in support of the Dr Christine
Matthews Medical Centre, South India, and in the afternoon the
Archbishop of Dublin will be among those who will sign the Jubilee
Petition for Developing Country Debt Cancellation at the Central Bank.
The Annual Conference of the Church of Ireland Men's Society will be
held in Donaghadee parish church where the theme of the proceedings,
"The 1798 Rebellion and the Church of Ireland", will be
addressed by Mr Patrick Comerford, Foreign Desk Editor of The Irish
Times and a frequent contributor to the 1798 debate. Affirming
Catholicism will host a conference on "Women's Ministry - The
Future" in the Theological College where the speakers will be the
Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, Canon Virginia Kennerley and Fr Gearoid
O'Sulleabhain CM, while in Castleknock Parish Centre the Association of
Inter-Church Families will hold a Family Get Together beginning at 2.00
pm.
In St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway a flower
festival, in aid of the church's fabric fund, continues until Monday.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the services will be sung by the choir of Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin and the visiting preachers will be the former
dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, Dr Victor Griffin, and former Bishop of
Ossory, the Rt Revd Noel Willoughby.
The Diocesan Choir of Meath and Kildare will visit
Co. Tipperary where they will sing at the Magorban Harvest Fesrtival
this evening (Saturday) and in the Cathedral of St John the Baptist,
Cashel tomorrow (Sunday). In Monkstown, Co. Dubin the community will
celebrate the establishment of its first church by St Mochoona in 787. A
re-enactment of the crossing of the monks from Inis Patrick, off
Skerries, will be held and there will be an ecumenical service on the
site of the first church which will be attended by President McAleese.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise Morning Service
with the parishioners of Roscrea, Co Tipperary where the rector is Canon
Joseph Condell while BBC Radio Ulster will carry a service from the
Church of St John the Baptist, Helen's Bay, Co. Down where the Rt Revd
Simon Barrington-Ward, former Bishop of Coventry, will speak on C.S.
Lewis. The Archbishop of Armagh will preach at the 200th anniversary of
Drumbeg parish church while the Archbishop of Dublin will dedicate a
stained glass window, the gift of Mr Don Tidey, in Whitechurch.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where the
services will be sung by the Lassus Scholars, the Revd Bruce Pierce will
be commissioned as Church of Ireland chaplain to the new Tallaght
Hospital while in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork the Bishop of Clogher
will be the preacher at the Annual Friends' Service as part of an
emerging link between the dioceses of Clogher and Cork.
On Monday the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe will
preside at the GFS Diocesan Festival Service in St Brendan's Church,
Birr.
On Friday evening the Representative Church Body
Library will remain open until 7.30pm.
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