CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 19th January 2002
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
The inaugural service of this year's Week of Prayer
for Christian Unity in Dublin was held last night (Friday) in St
Anthony's Church, Clontarf, and in the coming days there will be a
number of special events related to this theme.
In Christ Church Cathedral tomorrow (Sunday)
morning the Revd Bruce Bradley SJ, senior communications officer of and
spokesman for the Archdiocese of Dublin, will be the preacher at the
Sung Eucharist. Evensong will be replaced with a service of Orthodox
Sung Vespers which will be celebrated by the Revd Dr Ireneu Craciun,
priest of the Greek Orthodox church at Arbour Hill. The Cathedral Choir
will sing Rachmaninov's celebrated setting of vespers. In St Patrick's
Roman Catholic Church, Trim, the preacher will be the Ven. Patrick
Lawrence, Archdeacon of Meath and Kildare and Rector of Julianstown.
The Divine Healing Ministeries, an
interdenominational organization, will host a healing service in St
Finnian's Church, Cregagh, Belfast, on Tuesday evening when the speaker
will be Mr Michael McGoldrick whose son was murdered by terrorists in
1996. Further details of this service may be had from Brother David
Jardine at Belfast 311532.
On Wednesday at 1.00 pm in St Michan's Church, Church
Street, Dublin, there will be an Ecumenical Healing Service with the
laying on of hands, at which the preacher will be the Revd Rosemary
Lindsay from Lucan Methodist Church. In Christ Church Cathedral on
Friday at 8.00 pm there will be an Irish Language Unity Service arranged
by Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise. The preacher will be An tAthair Alan
MacEochaghain SJ from the Jesuit Communications Centre in Dublin.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning
Prayer (Sung Mattins) according to the Book of Common Prayer. The
preacher will be the Ven. Edgar Swann, Archdeacon of Glendalough and
Rector of Greystones. In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the
speaker in the "Virtues and Vices" series of lecture sermons
will be the Leader of the Labour Party, Mr Ruairi Quinn TD, who will
address the theme of "Compromise". In St Flannan's Cathedral,
Killaloe, the Very Revd Stephen White, will be installed as Dean in
succession to the Very Revd Nicholas Cummins who has retired from the
stipendiary ministry. Dr White is the editor of Search and has
been Dean of Raphoe since 1992.
In Belfast tomorrow (Sunday) the Church of St
Paul and St Barnabas, York Street, begins a week of special evenings
hosted by the Bishop of Down and Dromore, the Rt Revd Harold Miller and
invited guests. Under the title of "Back to Our Roots" the
series will begin with a Songs of Praise with Mark Simpson of the BBC
and Michael Tregenna. Among the subsequent guests will be Paul Clarke of
UTV, Brother David Jardine and the flautist, Sir James Galway, who will
bring the series to an end on Sunday 27 January.
The annual conference of the Evangelical Fellowship
of Irish Clergy will be held on Monday at the Stricklands Conference
Centre, Bangor. The theme of the conference will be "Being
Faithful" and the special speaker will be the Revd Christopher
Green, Vice Principal of Oak Hill Theological College, London.
On Tuesday the Standing Committee of the General
Synod will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin. The bishops will
meet on Wednesday and will assemble again on Thursday for a Quiet Day.
On Friday evening in Holy Trinity Church, Crosshaven,
the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will institute the Revd
Daniel Nuzum to the incumbency of Templebreedy and Nohoval. Mr Nuzum has
been curate in Bandon since his ordination in 1999.
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