CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 8 May 1999
From: The
RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Susan Howatch Writes for Search
Susan Howatch, the best selling novelist whose portrayal of the
Church of England in her Starbridge books has entertained and intrigued
many, is the 'big name' contributor to the spring issue of Search, a
Church of Ireland Journal. Her essay explores both her own religious
standpoint and that of several characters in her books.
From the real, rather than the fictional church, the Bishop of Cashel
and Ossory, the Rt. Revd John Neill, gives his impressions of the
Lambeth Conference and the World Council of Churches meeting in Harare,
while Bishop Michael Marshall reflects on the Decade of Evangelism. The
Revd Gregory Dunstan offers an interpretation of the place of symbol in
St John's Passion narrative while Canon Dick McDonald relates body and
spirit in an essay which reflects his dual ministry as a priest and
counsellor.
Finally Canon Kenneth Kearon, Director of the Irish School of
Ecumenics, provides an appreciation of the late Canon John Brown, an
enigmatic figure who presided over the old Divinity Hostel with his own
distinctive style and who exercised a profound influence on generations
of ordinands.
Search is available from the Religious Education Resource Centre,
Holy Trinity Church, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6.
Today (Saturday) Dr Kenneth Milne will be representing the Irish
Council of Churches at the first meeting of the Church and Society
Commission of the Conference of European Churches. The meeting in
Finland continues until Tuesday. Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a
Rogationtide service from the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, with
the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, the Chaplain of
Trinity, Dr Alan McCormack, and the Chapel Choir. In Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, at Evensong the Revd Tom Haskins, Rector of Clontarf,
will be installed as a canon. Following the service as part of the Cathedral Arts "Sundays at Seven"
series there will be a recital by Hakan Lewin (alto saxophone) and Peter
Sweeney (organ) of sacred music by Duke Ellington. In St Patrick's
Church, Greystones, there will be a concert at 8.00 p.m. by the
Vasterleds Choir from Stockholm.
On Monday and Tuesday, in Bellinter, the Very Revd Maurice Carey,
Priest in St John's Church, Sandymount, will conduct a retreat for the
clergy of Meath and Kildare.
The second in the Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, lunchtime lectures
on "Irish
Cathedrals in the Middle Ages" will be held on Tuesday when
Canon Adrian Empey, one of the intellectual ornaments of the Church of
Ireland, will speak about St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny.
Also on Tuesday in Kinneigh, Co. Cork, the Bishop of Cork, the
Rt. Revd Paul Colton, will institute the Revd Stuart Burns, from Cape
Town, to the incumbency.
On Wednesday the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will institute
the Revd Paul Whittaker to the incumbency of Annaghmore and on Thursday
he will institute the Revd David Pierce as Rector of Donaghmore. Mr
Whittaker has been curate in Killowen, Coleraine, and Mr Pierce has been
curate in St Donard's parish, Belfast.
Thursday is Ascension Day when in St Colman's Cathedral, Cloyne, the
Rt. Revd Paul Colton will be enthroned.
In St Ann's Church, Dublin, the Ascension Day Eucharist at lunchtime
will be sung by the parish choir of Nederlulea in northern Sweden.
Christian Aid will hold a fund raising concert in Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, with the Southern Adventist Orchestra (USA) and the
Lassus Scholars.
On Friday in Dublin there will be a lunchtime organ recital in Christ
Church Cathedral by Antoinette Baker. In the evening the choir of St
Patrick's Cathedral will give a concert which will include Fauré's
Requiem and Britten's Hymn to St Cecilia. Proceeds of the concert will
go towards the choir's forthcoming engagements in Manchester Cathedral
and Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral.
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