CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 2nd June 2001
From: The RCB Library
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USPG to Meet in Maynooth
Tomorrow (Sunday), the Feast of Pentecost, the Bishop of Meath and
Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, will celebrate the Eucharist and preach at the
opening of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel's
international conference in Maynooth. The conference, entitled "Venture
Fourth" to mark the beginning of its fourth century of activity, is
intended as an opportunity for USPG to listen to the voice of the world wide
church as it seeks to discern the ways in which it should be working in the
21st century.
USPG is one of the leading Anglican missionary societies. It was founded
in 1965 with the amalgamation of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel and the (Anglican) Universities Mission to Central Africa but traces
its roots to the establishment of SPG in 1791.
Today (Saturday) The Church of Ireland Men's Society will have its
annual outing. This year the Society will visit Downpatrick where there will
be a celebration of the Eucharist in Down Cathedral, a talk on the history
of the cathedral and a visit to the St Patrick Centre. The choir of St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will begin a short tour to Limerick where, in
St Michael's Church, they will sing at the Vigil Mass and later give a
concert of works by Byrd, Wood, Stanford and Tippett among others. Tomorrow
(Sunday) morning they will sing at the Eucharist in St Mary's
Cathedral, where in the evening the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, the Rt
Revd Michael Mayes will ordain Mr Alan Matchett to the diaconate to serve as
curate in the Limerick city parish.
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening in St Colman's Church, Dunmurry, the
former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, will preach at the Lisburn and
Derriaghy Rural Deanery Choral Festival. There will be more music on
Wednesday evening when David Leigh, Assistant Organist in St Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin, will give a recital in the cathedral at 6.30 pm with a
Pentecost theme, and on Thursday there will be a lunchtime recital in St
Patrick's by Camerata Allalachia. In the Cathedral of St John the Baptist,
Cashel, on Friday morning at 11.30 am, the Cashel Diocesan Choral Festival
for Schools will be held at which the preacher will be Ms Margaret Kingston,
Diocesan Reader.
The Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will be in England on Friday
when he will deliver the annual Joseph Winter Lecture in the Diocese of
Wakefield. In Dublin, St John's Church, Sandymount, will be the venue for a
celebration of the life and work of Percy French presented by the Percy
French Society. Performances on Friday and Saturday nights will be in aid of
the St John's Restoration Fund and details may be had by telephoning
01-2886288/2838039.
The Church of Ireland Gazette is seeking an editor to
succeed Canon Cecil Cooper who is to retire in September. The new
editor should have a broad understanding of Ireland, the Church
of Ireland and the Anglican Communion. He or she will be expected
to motivate and liase with the staff, and the production team, have
modern communication skills and write with flair and originality
on church issues. The post is part time and remunerated and applications,
by 15 June, should be sent to the Revd Robert Whiteside, Secretary,
Church of Ireland Press Ltd, 26 Bachelors Walk, Lisburn, BT28 1XN.
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