CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 7 November 1998
Remembering at Home and Abroad
In the coming week the theme of remembrance will be
very much to the fore, and tomorrow (Sunday), in particular, there will
be acts of remembrance in cathedrals and parish churches throughout the
Church of Ireland. In Dublin, the focus of such activity has
traditionally been St Patrick's Cathedral where Canon Noel Battye will
at Remembrance Sunday Mattins and the Revd Dr William O'Neill, Minister
of Howth Presbyterian Church, will preach at the Ecumenical Service in
the afternoon. In Christ Church Cathedral there will be a Requiem
Eucharist at which the Cathedral Choir will sing Victoria's Officium
Defunctorum which was composed in 1605.
The former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, and
the former Bishop of Tuam, the Rt Revd John Duggan, will be in Belgium
where they will take part in the "Flanders Island of Ireland
Conference" and will attend the opening of the "Island of
Ireland Peace Park" on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, David
Robertson's book Deeds not Words, which chronicles the role of former
members of Wilson's Hospital in the two world wars, will be launched at
the school in Multyfarnham.
A graphic introduction to the horror, pathos and
heroism of the Irish involvement in World War I may be had by visiting
the exhibition "Let Ireland Remember" in the Dublin Civic
Museum. Organized by Tom Burke and his colleagues in the Royal Dublin
Fusiliers Association, and opened by President McAleese, this exhibition
seeks to recover for a new generation a part of Ireland's history which
has been, for too long, suppressed. "Let Ireland Remember" is
open in the Dublin Civic Museum, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2,
Tuesday-Saturday, 10.00-6.00 and Sunday, 11.00-2.00 and will run until
next January.
Today (Saturday) the Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
Diocesan Synod will be held in Longford while in Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin the Diocesan Junior Choir Festival will take place
under the baton of the indefatigable Mark Duley.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton
Empey, will institute the Revd Ann Wooderson to the incumbency of
Celbridge. Mrs Wooderson, whose husband is the Rector of Naas, succeeds
the Revd David Boyland who is now Rector of Kilmakee. At Evensong in St
Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork the Very Revd Christopher Peters will be
installed as Chancellor and Prebendary of Killaspugmullane and the Revd
Paul Draper as Prebendary of Killanully: the preacher will be the Rector
of Kinsale, Canon David Williams. There will be a Service of
Re-Dedication and Thanksgiving in St Mary's Church, Navan, where under
the leadership of the Rector, the Revd John Clarke, the restoration
project and hall development has been successfully completed. The
celebrant and preacher at the service will be the Bishop of Meath and
Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke.
On Monday the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames,
travels to London where he will chair the meeting of the Anglican
Communion Finance Committee while on Tuesday the Bishop of Cork, the Rt
Revd Roy Warke, will also be in London for a meeting of the Board of
Christian Aid.
In University College, Cork on Wednesday evening, the
distinguished theologian, Professor Jurgen Moltmann, will deliver the
Homan Public Lecture on the theme "Christianity and the Change of
Values in the Western World" and on Thursday evening he will be in
Trinity College, Dublin where he will speak in the "Judaism and
Christianity" series on "The Jewish/Christian Dialogue after
Auschwitz".
On Friday in Dublin a weekend conference to celebrate
the re-opening of St Catherine's Church by CORE begins. Details may be
had from CORE Office, 3rd Floor, 57/58 Mary Street, Dublin 2.
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