CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 10 October 1998
Annual Swift Commemoration
Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin for
thirty two years from 1713, died on 19 October 1745. Each year a service
is held to commemorate his achievements as a man of letters and as an
Irish patriot. This year's commemoration will be held tomorrow (Sunday)
at evensong in St Patrick's where the address will be given by Dr Joseph
McMinn, Professor of Anglo-Irish Studies in the University of Ulster at
Jordanstown. Dr McMinn, who is the author of several Swiftian studies
including Swift: A Literary Life and Jonathan Swift's Travels: Swift and
Ireland, will deal with Swift's well known love of and practical
interest in gardening. The title of his address will be "The
Gardener in the Deanery".
The music for the service will include organ works by
Purcell and Handel and the Wagner/Hewson anthem "The spacious
firmament on high".
This morning (Saturday) in Dublin the Leprosy Mission
will have a Sale of Work in Christ Church, Rathgar beginning at 10.00
am.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service
from Kilternan parish church, Co. Dublin where the rector is Canon David
Moynan. In Whitechurch, Co. Dublin the Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd
Edward Darling, will preach at the harvest festival while in Cork the
preacher at the St Fin Barre's Cathedral harvest thanksgiving will be
Captain Keith Dyde from the Church Army.
In Trinity College Chapel daily services resume on
Monday at 9.15 a.m. under the direction of the new chaplain, Revd Dr
Alan McCormack.
On Tuesday the Cashel and Ossory Diocesan Synod will
be held in Kilkenny while in Carnmoney, Co. Antrim, the former Bishop of
Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, will address the local branch of the Church of
Ireland Men's Society. The speaker at the Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin lunchtime lecture series on "The Vikings and Christ
Church" will be Linzi Simpson, Excavation Director of Temple Bar.
In Bellinter the Meath and Kildare Clerical
Conference will begin and continue until Thursday when the Bishop of
Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, will speak to his clergy on his
personal understanding of Christianity, spirituality and ministry. The
conference will include Bible study and reflections on belief today,
prayer and moral decision making and, in the light of the Lambeth
Conference, will consider the contentious issues of sexuality.
On Wednesday the Ferns Diocesan Synod will be held in
Wexford.
On Thursday the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames,
will be in London where he will deliver the Bernard Wetherall Lecture
and where on Friday he will address the Queen's University Association
dinner. The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, and the Minister of
Education and Science will be in Whitechurch on Thursday where there
will be a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the 175th anniversary of
Whitechurch National School. In Co. Antrim the Bishop of Connor, the Rt
Revd James Moore, will institute the Revd Maurice Elliott, formerly
curate of Coleraine, to the incumbency of Greenisland.
In St Thomas' Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin,
the speaker at the lunchtime talk in the "I believe..." series
will be the successful novelist and columnist, Maeve Binchy. A more
heavy weight set of public lectures begins on Thursday evening in
Trinity College, Dublin where the School of Hebrew, Biblical and
Theological Studies is running a series on "Judaism and
Christianity and their cultures". The first lecture will be given
by Professor Sean Freyne who will speak on "Christians in a Jewish
World and Jews in a Christian World: Comparisons and Contrasts 1st-4th
C.E."
On Friday the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt
Revd John Neill, will preach at a Service of Thanksgiving to mark the
completion of the first phase of the restoration of Waterford Cathedral
where the Dean is the Very Revd Peter Barrett.
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