CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 6 March 1999
From: The RCB Library
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SPCK Celebrations in Dublin
SPCK (the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge) was founded 300
years ago and will conclude a year of tercentenary celebrations with a
major service of thanksgiving in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,
tomorrow at 3.15 pm. The preacher at the service will be the Archbishop
of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, who is a vice-patron of SPCK, and President
McAleese will attend and take part, as will the Revd Dr Norman Gamble,
Rector of Malahide, who is the SPCK Honorary Co-ordinator for Ireland.
SPCK is the oldest of the Anglican mission agencies and has developed
a close relationship with most of the other related agencies including
the APCK in Ireland. The service in St Patrick's, through the
participation of the Association of Missionary Societies in the Church
of Ireland (AMS), will acknowledge the achievements of all the mission
agencies which have served the Church of Ireland over the last 300
years.
The House of Bishops has declared tomorrow (Sunday) to be a Mission
Sunday throughout the Church of Ireland and it is hoped that many
parishes will mark the day by using a mission theme in their worship and
by seeking to discover more about mission in the contemporary church.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Bishop of Kilmore, the Rt Revd Michael
Mayes, will preach in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, while in St
Bartholomew's church the Lenten preacher will be the theologian, Mrs
Anne Thurston. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the preacher in the
"Faith for a New Millennium" series will be Dr Charles
Villa-Vicenzio, Professor of Theology in the University of Cape Town and
secretary of the Truth and Justice Commission in South Africa. In the
evening, three new canons, the Very Revd Robert Townley, Canon Robert
Deane and Canon Patrick Carmody, will be installed in St Patrick's
Cathedral, Trim where the Dean is the Very Revd Andrew Furlong.
On Monday the Archbishop of Armagh will be given a Civic Reception by
Tipperary South Riding in recognition of his services to peace,
reconciliation and ecumenism. The reception will take place in Aras an
Chontac, Clonmel.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Representative
Church Body will meet on Tuesday in Dublin where the bishops will meet
on Wednesday.
On Wednesday the Trinity College "Lectures in Lent" series
continues in the Joly Theatre at lunchtime when Mohammed Haji will speak
on refugees and asylum seekers. The Dean of Christ Church, Dublin, the
Very Revd John Paterson, will be with the Lord Mayor of Dublin's party
in San Jose, with which the city and the cathedral are twinned. There
will be an ecumenical service in Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on
Wednesday and a civic reception on Friday.
The annual Joe Coady Lecture, which memorialises the life and witness
of the late Dean's Verger in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will be
held in the Cathedral on Wednesday evening at 8.00 pm. The speaker will
be Mrs Lesley Whiteside, archivist and historian, who will talk on
"The stained glass of Christ Church Cathedral" which is the
subject of her latest book. Her full colour Guide to the Stained Glass
of Christ Church Cathedral will be launched after the lecture by Dr
Nicola Gordon-Bowe from the National College of Art and Design who is
the leading expert on the work of Ireland's greatest stained glass
artist, Harry Clarke.
In the Lenten series on ethics which has been organized by the
churches in Malahide and Portmarnock the speakers on "The
Media" will be the Irish Times journalist, Michael Foley, and Dr
Colum Kenny who lectures in communications in Dublin City University.
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