CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 31 July 1999
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Millennium Conference for Christ Church
The Church of Ireland has been, to say the least, somewhat ambivalent
about the forthcoming millennium, and the absence of a comprehensive
programme of ecclesiastical events or a major church initiative to
celebrate or commemorate this signficant occasion has bewildered some of
the faithful.
(But see the Millennium
News page on this web site - Webmaster)
However, information is now available about one important event for
in the year 2000. Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will host an
international ecumenical conference in celebration of Christian liturgy
past, present and future. Entitled "Ceiliuradh", the festival will run
from 18 to 24 July 2000 when themes of music, art, architecture,
scripture and theology will be explored in the context of seminars,
practical workshops, lectures and daily worship.
Among the speakers from Britain will be the Bishop of Salisbury, the
Rt Revd David Stancliffe, Professor John Harper, Director-General of the
Royal School of Church Music, and Dr Anne Loades, a theologian in the
University of Durham. John Bell from the Iona Community will take part
as will the Revd Nicholas Frayling, Vicar of Liverpool, the liturgist
Michael Hodgetts, and Christopher Walsh, Director of the Institute for
Mission and Liturgy in Sarum College, Salisbury.
Professor Alan Barthel will travel from the University of Toronto
where he is Professor of Church Music, the Revd Rick Fabian will come
from the parish of St Gregory Nyssen, San Francisco, and Professor Kevin
Seasoltz from Collegeville, Minnesota where he is Professor of
Liturgics. Among the local speakers will be the Dublin theologians Anne
Thurston and Maria Jansson, and the Director of Music in Christ Church,
Mark Duley. The conference will also be a festival with a wide reange of
concerts, worship activities and fringe events for both resident and
non-resident participants.
Details of the conference may had from the Braemor Institute, Church
of Ireland Theological College, Braemor Park, Dublin 14. Telephone
+353-1-492 3695, fax +353-1-492 3082, e-mail Tom Gordon
This evening (Saturday) the KUFM Choir from Karlstad in Sweden will
give a concert of sacred and secular works by, amomg others, Bach and
Purcell, in St Patrick's Church, Greystones, in aid of parish funds.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will
visit the Omey group of parishes, based on Clifden, where the rector is
the Archdeacon of Tuam, the Ven. Anthony Previté. In Dublin the
services in Christ Church Cathedral will be sung by the choir of St
Peter's Church, Prestbury, while in St Patrick's Cathedral, the
Eucharist and Evensong will be sung by Lyra Davidica. In St Mary's
Parish Church, Howth, where the rector is Canon Cecil Hyland, the
Bablake School Choir from Coventry will sing at the morning Eucharist.
Summer services continue in Templeconnor Church, Clonmacnoise, where the
Eucharist will be celebrated at 4.00 pm. The Choir of Croydon Parish
Church will sing Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on
Wednesday and Friday. On Thursday evening the St Barrahane's Church
Festival of Classical Music continues in Castletownshend, Co. Cork,
where there will be a recital by Catherine Leonard (violin) and Julian
Milford (harp).
For natives and visitors alike the Representative Church Body
Library's exhibition, "Dublin City Churches Revisited"
continues in the Dublin Civic Museum, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2
- beside the Powerscourt Town House. The exhibition of archives,
manuscripts, photographs and printed material from the Library's
collections celebrates the history and evolution of the Church of
Ireland parish churches in Dublin's inner city. The Civic Museum is open
10.00-6.00, Tuesday to Saturday and 11.00-2.-00 on Sundays and admission
is free.
The installation of the Very Revd Dr Robert MacCarthy as Dean of St
Patrick's has been arranged for Sunday 11 September at 3.00 pm when the
new Dean will preach.
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