CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 23rd February 2002
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
New Publishing Venture for RCB Library
On Wednesday evening in St Werburgh's Church, Dublin,
the first volume in a new RCB Library "Texts and Calendars"
series of publications will be launched by the Dublin City Manager, Mr
John Fitzgerald. This new venture aims to make available in print
important ecclesiastical records from the collections of the
Representative Church Body Library which is the Church of Ireland's
principal repository for its archives and manuscripts.
The inaugural volume is The
Vestry Records of the Parish of St John the Evangelist, Dublin,
1595-1658 which has been edited by Dr Raymond Gillespie from the
Department of Modern History in NUI-Maynooth. This is an edition of the
oldest, continuous set of vestry records in Ireland and includes vestry
minutes, churchwardens' accounts and local taxation records. Together
these sources provide a unique insight into the world of an urban parish
as it moved from the medieval into the modern world. The text casts
light not only on the problems of the established church but also on the
everyday lives of the parishioners as they struggled to maintain the
church and the life associated with it in the face of dramatic urban
change.
The parish church of St John, demolished in the late
19th century, stood in Fishamble Street, and the parish extended from St
John's Lane, behind Christ Church Cathedral, down to Wood Quay. Today
the parish is part of the Christ Church Cathedral group of parishes
where the rector is the Dean of Christ Church, the Very Revd John
Paterson and the vicar is Canon David Pierpoint.
The Vestry Book of the Parish of St John the
Evangelist, Dublin, 1595-1658 is published by Four Courts Press in
association with the Representative Church Body Library at 40 euros.
Today (Saturday) the Church's Ministry of
Healing will hold a Quiet Day in Kill o' the Grange parish centre where
the leader will be Canon Stanley Baird. In Trinity College, Dublin, the
Vicar of Covent Garden, London, the Revd Mark Oakley, will lead a
seminar, organized by the Actors' Church Union and the TCD Chaplaincy,
on Sebastian Barry's Hinterland.
Mr Oakley will preach in the College Chapel tomorrow
(Sunday) morning in the "Virtues and Vices " series of
lecture sermons on the theme of "Love and Longing" while at
Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral the Lenten address on
"Conflict" will be given by the Ven. David Chillingworth,
Rector of Seagoe in Portadown.
On Tuesday the final lunchtime history lecture in the
present series in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will be given by Dr
James Murray, from DCU, who will speak on "The Dawn of the
Reformation in Ireland". In London the Dean of St Patrick's, Dr
Robert MacCarthy, will be the speaker at the weekly dialogue with the
Revd Victor Stock in the Church of St Mary le Bow where the subject will
be "The Church of Ireland - Catholic or Protestant". The
Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will be in
Swanwick, Derbyshire, for the Assembly of Churches Together in Britain
and Ireland of which he is Co-Chairman.
On Thursday, in Rathfarnham parish church the Lenten
address in the "Living Together in a Multi-Faith Society"
series will be given by the Chief Rabbi, Dr Yaakov Pearlman. The
Archbishop of Armagh will be in London for the AGM of the Anglican
Communion Personal Emergencies Fund and on Friday will preside at an
Electoral College, in Armagh, to choose a new Bishop of Derry and Raphoe
in succession to Dr James Mehaffey who has retired.
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