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CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 27th November 1999
From: The
RCB Library
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Seamus Brennan to Visit Taney Parish
The work of re-hanging the bells from St George's Church, Temple Street, which were the gift of the renowned architect Francis Johnston, in Christ Church, Taney, Dundrum, began in early November. The project will be completed before Christmas, in good time to ring in the new millennium.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning there will be a Service of Blessing of the work after which the chairman of the government Millennium Committee, Mr Seamus Brennan, T.D., will present a contribution to the parish. Fund raising has been underway for some time and several families have sponsored the cost of a bell. The entire project, which also includes refurbishment of the porch of Christ Church and some ancillary work, will cost some £70,000.
A Taney Change-Ringers Society has been formed and weekly instruction is being provided in the art of campanology. The ringing master is Cyril Galbraith and the members of the committee are Heather Faull, George Strong, Alan Hamilton and Stephanie Lloyd. The bell ringing fraternity is both international and inter-denominational and it is hoped that there will be participation from the wider community.
Tonight (Saturday) at 11.30 pm in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, there will be a "First Supper", a vigil love feast, designed by the ecumenical liturgy group, to welcome in the beginning of the Christian millennium.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is Advent Sunday which will be marked in the leading cathedrals by Advent Processions. BBC Radio Ulster will broadcast a service conducted by the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, while RTE will carry Morning Service from St Columba's Church, Knock, where the rector is the Ven. Gregor McCamley. The Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will be the preacher at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, while in Christ Church Cathedral the first in a series of lay reflections on faith for the third millennium, will be given by Maria Jannson, an ordinand in the Theological College.
In St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, the Annual Dr Webster Sermon will be delivered by Dr Alan Acheson and in St McCartan's Cathedral, Enniskillen, in the afternoon, there will be a Millennium Celebration for the Diocese of Clogher.
On Tuesday, St Andrew's Day, the Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd Edward Darling, will mark the 14th anniversary of his consecration by presiding at the Eucharist in St Mary's Cathedral. The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will institute the Revd Cecil Bryan to the incumbency of Tullow while in St Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore, Canon Billy Beare, formerly Rector of Stradbally, will be installed as dean.
Wednesday has been designated as World HIV-AIDS Day in response to which the Church of Ireland Chaplain in Trinity College, Dr Alan McCormack, will co-ordinate an evening liturgy in the College Chapel. In Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines, the Church of Ireland Theological College will hold its Advent Carol Service.
The final lecture in the "Theology at the Turn of the Millennium" series in Trinity College, Dublin, will be held on Thursday evening. The speaker will be Dr Gabriel Daly and his subject will be "Theology, Science and Scientism".
St John's Church, Sandymount, is one of the relatively few parish churches to maintain a daily tradition of prayer through the celebration of the Eucharist. Not many people today are free to come to church every day and so to encourage the sense of praying together every day, St John's has produced a scheme of prayer, entitled "Praying Together for Advent".
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