CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 24th November 2001
From: The
RCB Library
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Dublin Diocesan Forum
Today (Saturday) in All Hallows' College, Drumcondra, the Archbishop of
Dublin will preside at a special Diocesan Forum comprised of the clergy and
two representatives from each parish in the dioceses of Dublin and
Glendalough.
Following key note addresses by the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul
Colton, and Dr Patricia Barker from Dublin City University, some 200
delegates will be divided into working groups to consider five issues -
ministry and support for the clergy, faith development, social ministry and
care for the elderly, children and youth, planning and attracting members.
The forum has been preceded by a wide ranging consultation process to
determine the views of clergy and laity, with, in particular, a series of
successful rural deanery meetings which were attended by the clergy and four
representatives from each parish. Out of these meetings emerged the issues
for discussion at the forum.
The consultation process was faciliated by Mr David Meredith who will
also be the facilitator of the forum.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will broadcast a Sequence of Carols and
Readings for Advent with the staff and students of the Church of Ireland
Theological College where the Chaplain-Tutor is the Revd Kevin Moroney,
while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin the Bishop of Cork will
preach at the Sung Eucharist. At Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,
there will be a commemoration of those who lost their lives on Irish ships
between 1939 and 1945, and in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, the past
choristers will join in Evensong. The 175th anniversary of the dedication of
Kinawley parish church, Co. Fermanagh, will be marked by a special service
at which the Bishop of Kilmore, the Rt Revd Ken Clarke, will be the
preacher.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 6.00 pm tomorrow (Sunday) Christ
Church Baroque, directed by Mark Duley, will perform three Bach cantatas.
On Monday, in Milltown, the Irish School of Ecumenics will host the
launch of Bringing Churches Together: An Introduction to Ecumenism at which
the speaker will be Professor Gideon Goosen from the Australian Catholic
University in Sydney. The Archbishop of Armagh will be in Sweden where he
will attend a meeting of Porvoo Primates in Uppsalla and on Wednedsay he
will lead the Church of Ireland delegation to the Porvoo Churches.
Wednesday is World AIDS Day which will be marked by Christian Aid Ireland
with the opening of "Positive Images" a photographic exhibition in
County Hall, Dun Laoghaire, which will illustrate life with HIV/AIDS. In the
Centre for Christian Studies in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, the final
talk in the And is it True? series will take place. In a fitting finale, the
author of the book on which the series has been based, the Bishop of Meath
and Kildare, will speak on the intriguing subject of "Bishops Playing
Poker".
In Rathfarnham parish church, Dublin, on Thursday "The Wonder of
Christmas" Flower Festival will be opened by TV gardener Helen Dillon.
The festival will run until Sunday 2 December and the proceeds will be
divided between the Harcourt Home and the Rathfarnham Parish Millennium Side
Chapel Fund.
On Friday the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack,
will be a speaker a conference in Kimmage Mission Institute on post-modern
worship. In the evening, in Christ Church Cathedral, the Dublin and
Glendalough Council for Mission will host a celebration of "Our Oneness
in Christ" which will include immigrant choirs, drama and music,
African food and an address from the Bishop of Stepney, the Rt Revd John
Sentamu.
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