CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 9th February 2002
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
This year's annual Church of Ireland Theological Lectures at Queen's
University, Belfast, will be held next Monday and Tuesday in the
Geography Theatre, Elmwood Avenue, at 6.00 p.m.
The guest lecturer will be the Very Revd Paul Zahl, Dean of the
Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama. On Monday
evening he will speak on "Laws vs Grace at the Core of
Christianity: a Protestant Anglican View" and on Tuesday his theme
will be "Lex Rex: the Unity of the Sermon on the Mount in September
11th Perspective".
Dr Zahl has written widely, expecially on Reformation topics. Among
his books are The Protestant Face of Anglicanism and The
Collects of Thomas Cranmer.
This evening the second in the Christ Church Baroque's International
Directors Series will begin in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 8.00
p.m. with music conducted by Paul Goodwin.
Tomorrow morning, at 8.07 a.m., BBC Radio 4 will broadcast a service
of Choral Matins, according to the Book of Common Prayer, from St
George's parish church, Belfast, where the vicar is the Rev Brian
Stewart. In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher in the
"On Virtues and Vices" series of lecture sermons at the Sung
Eucharist, will be Dr Maureen Kenny, from Trinity's Department of
Theology, who will consider the virture of "hope". In Co
Armagh the Rector of Milltown, the Rev Eddie Coulter, and four of his
parishioners, will be commissioned for a visit to the Diocese of Makuru
in Kenya with the Crosslinks missionary society, and at Evensong in St
Patrick's Cathedral the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, will
preach to mark the jubilee of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II.
In Dublin, at Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, the Rev Trevor
Williams, leader of the Corrymeela Community, will be installed at
Prebendary of Rathmichael, while in St Ann's Church, Dawson Street, the
Bach Cantatas 2002 recitals continue with the Canticum Novum choir and
the Orchestra of St Cecilia.
A Week of Prayer for Repentance, organised by Brother David Jardine
of the Divine Healing Ministries, begins on Monday in Townsend Street
Presbyterian Church, Belfast. The climax of the week will be a prayer
walk around Belfast next Saturday.
The second in the "Tuesdays in Spring" lunchtime history
lectures, which have been organised by Christ Church Cathedral and
Dublin City, will be held in the cathedral on Tuesday at 1.15 p.m. The
speaker in the "2000 Years of Christianity Series" will be Dr
Marie-Therese Flanagan from the Department of Modern History in Queen's
University, Belfast.
On Friday eveing in St Cronan's parish church, Roscrea, there will be
a concert by the Roscrea Community Singers and an organ recital by the
Dean of Cashel, Dr Phillip Knowles.
Advance information is now available to the Fellowship of
Contemplative Prayer Retreats, which will be held from June 7th to 9th
and 10th to 13th in the Bellinter House Conference Centre, Co Meath. The
witness at both retreats will be Mrs Rachel Christophers. Details from
Mr Tony Dunton, 345 Longland Road, Claudy, Co Derry, BT47 4AJ. The
closing date is May 10th.
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