CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 30th September 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Treasury for Christ Church Cathedral
Many people will, by now, have seen or have heard of the magnificent
restoration of the crypt of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, which has
opened up to public gaze one of the most important medieval spaces in
Ireland. As part of the planning of the restoration programme,
consideration was given to incorporating a permanent display of the
cathedral's treasures but financial considerations dictated that this
development would have to be postponed.
However, the delay has proved to be more short lived than had been
anticipated due to the generosity of two friends of Christ Church.
Christopher Sheil, the former administrator of the cathedral, and his
wife Heather, have offered to finance the creation of a cathedral
treasury and preliminary work to bring this project to fruition has
already begun.
For the first time it will be possible for visitors to see, in a
controlled environment, the cathedral's treasures. Among these may be
the royal plate presented to Christ Church by King William III, the
tabernacle and candlesticks which were used during the Jacobite
'interregnum', and the cathedral's archives.
Treasuries are a regular feature of English and continental
cathedrals but the Christ Church project will be the first of its kind
in Ireland.
Today (Saturday) the Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh Diocesan Synod
meets in the Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnelly, Co. Cavan while in
Holywood, Co. Down, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will address the
Church of Ireland Men's Society on "The Church of the Future".
In Dublin the Church Missionary Society Ireland will hold an Autumn Fair
in aid of the work of Dr Raj Rajkumar at the Dr Christine Matthews
Medical Centre, South India, in Raheny Parish Hall, beginning at 10.30
am. In Foxrock Community Centre there will an exhibition on "South
County Dublin's Christian Past" which will continue tomorrow (Sunday).
Today (Saturday) the Bishop of St Andrews begins a short visit
to the Dioceses of Meath and Kildare which are twinned with St Andrews.
The Rt Revd Michael Henley will preach tomorrow (Sunday) morning
in Slane parish church which is being re-dedicated after restoration and
in the evening he will be the preacher at the harvest festival in
Carnalway.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Rector of Skerry, Broughshane, Co.
Antrim, Canon John Bond, will be the preacher at the harvest
celebrations in St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick. At Evensong in St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Revd Charles Mullen will be installed
as Dean's Vicar. Mr Mullen, who has been Rector of Gorey since 1995,
succeeds the Revd Peter Campion who has returned to Canada. The service
will be attended by the Friends of Cathedral Music on their first visit
to Dublin.
On Monday the Annual Law Service will be held in St Michan's Church,
Dublin, and from Monday until Thursday the Celtic Bishops will be
meeting in Newcastle, Co. Down
A new series of lunch time talks on the theme "I Believe"
begins in St Thomas' Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, on Thursday.
The first address will be given by the journalist and art historian,
Bruce Arnold. On the following three Thursdays the speakers will be
Ferdinand von Prondzynski, President of DCU, Senator Mary Henry, and
Archdeacon Gordon Linney.
On Friday the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Robert
Deane to the incumbency of Swords, Clonmethan, Kilsallaghan, Donabate
and Lusk. Mr Deane, who began his clerical career as curate of Raheny
and Coolock, has been Rector of Clonsast in the Diocese of Kildare since
1988 and a Canon of St Brigid's Cathedral since 1997.
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