CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 2nd February 2002
From: The RCB Library
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25th Anniversary of Belfast Cathedral Sitout
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon the 25th
anniversary of the Christmastide sit out for local charities, which was
begun by the late Dean Sammy Crooks, will be marked in St Anne's
Cathedral, Belfast, where the worship will be led by choirs from
Grosvenor High School and Strandtown Primary School.
During the service the proceeds of last years sitout,
which was the first for the present Dean of Belfast, Dr Houston
McKelvey, will be distributed. Cheques, totalling £225,000, will be
presented by the Bishop Elect of Connor, the Ven. Alan Harper, the
Archdeacon of Down, the Ven. Gregor McCamley, Mrs Isobel Crooks, the
widow of Dean Crooks, Lady McCollum and Mrs Gretta Rodgers, the Lady
Mayoress of Belfast.
Mayors from several councils in County Antrim and
County Down will receive cheques for charities in their areas as will
the Lord Mayor of Belfast whose fund supports the elderly of the city.
In addition £30,000 has been sent to Christian Aid, and three other
international organizations, to help rebuild peoples' lives elsewhere in
the needy world.
In the 25 years of the sitout over £2.4 million
pounds has been raised.
Today (Saturday) is the Feast of Candlemas
which brings the Christmas season to an end. In Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin the Candlemas Procession and Eucharist will begin at 5.00 pm
while in Glenstall Abbey the curate of Limerick, the Revd Alan Matchett,
will host an evening to "Meet, Sing and Eat". The Bishop of
Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will be in Sweden where he is
visiting the Diocese of Lund with which his dioceses are linked. In the
Church of Ireland Theological College, Braemor Park, Dublin 14, the
editorial board of Search will host a public lecture by Dr
Stephen Sykes on "Power and Authority". Dr Sykes, who is a
former Bishop of Ely, is presently Principal of Cramner Hall, Durham.
The lecture begins at 2.30 pm.
In Dublin tomorrow (Sunday) morning Bishop
Sykes will preach at the Sung Eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral while
at the Sung Eucharist for Candlemas in the Chapel of Trinity College the
Revd Dr Liam Tracey OSM, from Maynooth, will preach on
"Faithfulness" as part of the "Virtues and Vices"
series of lecture sermons. At 3.30 pm in St Ann's Church, Dawson Street,
the Bach 2002 series of recitals continues with the Canzona Chamber
Choir, the Orchestra of St Cecelia and guest soloists.
In St Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare, the preacher at
the Patronal Festival Service will be the Dean of Limerick, the Very
Revd Maurice Sirr.
On Monday the AGM of the Irish Church Missions will
be held in All Saints' Centre, University Street, Belfast. The afternoon
meeting will begin at 3.00 pm and the evening meeting at 7.30 pm.
Canon Roy Lawrence, from the Acorn Christian Healing
Trust, will be speaking at a series of healing services in Belfast.
Among his engagements will be the weekly healing services in St Ann's
Cathedral on Monday evening and in St Finian's parish church, Cregagh,
on Tuesday evening.
On Tuesday a new series of lunchtime lectures begins
in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, as part of a "Tuesdays in
Spring" series which has been organized in association with Dublin
City Council. Each Tuesday in February there will be a lecture in Christ
Church on the theme of "2000 Years of Christianity" and each
Tuesday in March there will be a lecture in City Hall on the theme of
"The Dublin City Treasures". The inaugural lecture of this
spring series will be given by Dr Howard Clarke UCD, on "The
Christianisation of the Dublin Vikings".
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