CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 23rd March 2002
From: The RCB Library
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Holy Week Observances
Tomorrow (Sunday) is Palm Sunday which ushers
in Holy Week and a period of preparation for the celebration of Easter.
RTE will televise a Palm Sunday Eucharist from St Patrick's Church,
Greystones, where the rector is the Archdeacon of Glendalough, the Ven.
Edgar Swann. In Dublin the Eucharist in Christ Church Cathedral will be
preceded by the blessing and distribution of palms while at the parish
eucharist in Glenageary the choir will sing Schubert's Mass in B Flat.
In St Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore, the Hood River Valley High School
Chamber Singers, from Oregon, will sing at the morning service and will
sing again on Good Friday in Greystones. At Evensong in St Patrick's
Cathedral there will be a "Sequence for Passiontide" with
words and music reflecting the themes of the Lenten addresses -
temptation, conflict, suffering, transfiguration and victory.
During Holy Week the Archbishop of Dublin will
conduct services in Taney parish church while the Bishop of Cashel and
Ossory will be in Crosshaven. Two former Bishops of Cork, Dr Samuel
Poyntz and the Rt Revd Roy Warke, will conduct Holy Week services in
Carryduff and Whitechurch, Co. Dublin, respectively while the Bishop of
Meath will be in Trim and the Bishop of Tuam in Cong and Tuam.
On Wednesday in the Chapel of Trinity College,
Dublin, at 8.00 pm there will be a reconstruction of the ancient office
of Tenebrae. This will take the form of a liturgical performance of
François Couperin's Trois Lecons du Tenebre directed by David
Adams.
At noon on Maundy Thursday the clergy of the dioceses
of Dublin and Glendalough will gather with the archbishop in Christ
Church Cathedral to renew their ordination vows. At this service the oil
of healing, for distribution throughout the dioceses, will be blessed.
On Good Friday RTE will broadcast a Sequence of
Readings and Music presented by the Revd Tom Gordon with Helen Roycroft,
Ruth O'Herlihy, Andrew McLellen and Michael Finlay. The music will
include works by Lassus, John of Portugal and Handel. In St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Revd J.G.W. Dickie, chaplain of
Marlborough School, will conduct the Liturgy of Good Friday and
Preaching of the Cross between 12 noon and 3.00 pm.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Clogher, Dr
Michael Jackson, will be enthroned in St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher.
In St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, the Connor Mothers' Union Festival
Service will be held at which the guest speaker will be Mr Reg Bailey,
Chief Executive of the Mothers' Union. During the service Mrs Norma Bell
will be commissioned as Diocesan President.
On Monday the Bishop of Down and Dromore and Mr
Stephen Clark, who is involved in international movements for Christian
renewal, will be the speakers at a seminar for clergy and christian
workers in the Wellington Park Hotel, Belfast. Entitled "Convergent
Ecumenism. A Strategy for Hope" the seminar is free and
reservations may be made by telephoning Doug Smith at (028) 9066 2143.
On Tuesday the final lunchtime history lecture in the
series organized by Christ Church Cathedral and Dublin City Council,
will be held in City Hall at 1.15 pm. Mrs Ida Delamer, from the Company
of Goldsmiths, will speak on the Dublin City swords. Members of the
Cathedral congregation will be familiar with the Great Dublin Civic
Sword, the personal weapon of King Henry IV of England, which is carried
before the Lord Mayor when he attends the annual Citizenship Service
each November.
At 8.00 pm in Christ Church Cathedral, Christ Church
Baroque, the Cathedral Choir and guest soloists, directed by Mark Duley,
will perform Bach's St John's Passion.
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