CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 17th February 2001
From: The RCB Library
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Taizé Brother Visit to Ireland
A member of the well known Taizé Community is in Ireland for a week long
visit. He comes from an ecumenical monastic community in the Burgundy region
of France which has gained international status for its distinctive style of
worship based on chants. The Brothers, in their simple white albs, have made
a particularly strong impression on the young who have been drawn into
worship by the chants.
Brother Felix is in Glendalough this weekend where there is an ecumenical
retreat for young adults in the 18 to 35 age group. Tomorrow (Sunday)
there will be a Taizé service in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin at 5.15
pm. Church leaders including the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will
attend as will President Mary McAleese. On Tuesday the Taizé tour will be
in St Mary's Cathedral, Tuam, and will then travel north for services in the
University of Ulster at Jordanstown and the Church of Ireland Student Centre
in Belfast. On Sunday 25 February the venue will be in St Paul's Church,
Mountmellick, and later St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, where there will be
a Youth Workshop followed by a Taizé Service.
Further details of the Taizé tour may be had from Peter Byrne at
01-8300299.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Service of the Word from
Whitechurch parish church, Dublin, where the rector is Canon Horace
McKinley. The Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will
visit Killanne and Killegney while in Dublin the preacher at the Sung
Eucharist in Trinity College Chapel will be the Attorney General, Mr Michael
McDowell, who will address the theme "On Public Things". The Bach
Festival 2001 continues in St Ann's Church, Dublin, at 3.30 pm, with
performances of cantatas 65, 123, 124, and 154 by the Orchestra of St
Cecelia, the Bach Cantata Choir and solists. Later in the evening in St
Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher, the Bishop of Clogher, the Rt Revd Brian
Hannon, will preach at the Diocesan Healing Service.
On Monday and Tuesday the annual Church of Ireland Theological Lectures
at Queen's University will be held in the Geography Theatre, Elmwood Avenue,
Belfast at 4.45 pm. This year the lecturer is Bishop Stephen Sykes,
Principal of St John's College, Durham. Bishop Sykes has had a distinguished
academic career in Cambridge and Durham and was, from 1990 to 1999, Bishop
of Ely.
He is chairman of the Church of England Doctrine Commission and chairs
the Inter-Anglican Theological and Doctrinal Commission. He will speak on
"Power and Theology".
The annual Dublin and Glendalough Clergy Conference begins in
Termonfeckin, Co. Louth, on Monday and continues until Wednesday. The theme
will be "Discovering God in Popular Culture". Among the speakers
will be Dr Andrew Pierce, Irish School of Ecumenics, the Revd Dr Alan
McCormack, TCD, the Very Revd Patrick Towers, Provost of Tuam, and the art
historian, Dr Peter Harbison.
On Thursday the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will be in America
for a meeting of Anglican primates in Kanuga, North Carolina, which will
continue until 9 March. Following the retirement of the Primate of Central
Africa, Dr Eames is now the senior primate in the Anglican Communion.
The annual retreats of the Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer have been
arranged for 8-10 and 11-14 June. And the venue will again be the Bellinter
House Conference Centre near Navan. The witness at both retreats will be
Canon Raymond Fox, Vicar Choral in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast. Early
booking, if possible before the end of April, would be appreciated and
details may be had from Mr Tony Dunton, 345 Longland Road, Claudy, Co. Derry
BT47 4AJ (tel: 048/028 71338577).
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