CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 13th April 2002
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Church of Ireland Historical Society Meeting
Today week, Saturday 20 April, the Church of Ireland
Historical Society will hold its spring meeting in the Robinson Library
in Armagh, beginning at 10.30 am.
There will be two lectures in the morning session.
First, Mr Christopher Fauske will speak on "Bishop McNeice - A Home
Ruler in Ulster". J.F. McNeice, father of the poet Louis McNeice,
is perhaps best remembered for his vigorous promotion of church
extension in the Belfast area when he was Archdeacon of Connor in the
1920s. However, although he served the greater part of his ministry in
the Diocese of Connor, he was ordained for the curacy of Cappoquin in
1895 and returned to the south-east as Bishop of Cashel, Waterford and
Lismore in the early 1930s.
The second morning lecture will be given by Dr
Kenneth Ferguson who will speak on the early history of the prayer book
in Ireland. As the Church of Ireland approaches the publication of a new
prayer book in 2004 it should be instructive to learn something of the
origins and development of the Book of Common Prayer which has
been the foundation for most of our liturgical life since the sixteenth
century.
After lunch there will be a lecture on
"Evangelicalism" by Dr Myrtle Hill from Queen's University,
Belfast. Dr Hill has written widely on this theme and is perhaps best
known for Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society, 1740-1890
which she wrote with Dr David Hempton and which was published in 1992.
Details of the Church of Ireland Historical Society
may be had from the Revd Dr W.G. Neely, The Rectory, 13 Crossmore Road,
Keady, Co. Armagh BT60 3JY.
Today (Saturday) the Girls' Choir of Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin, will continue their English tour. Yesterday
they sung Evensong in Chester Cathedral, today (Saturday) they
will be in Liverpool Cathedral and tomorrow (Sunday) they will
sing the services in St Asaph's Cathedral in North Wales.
The Mothers' Union All Ireland Council will meet in
Castleknock Parish Centre today (Saturday). In Lambeg Parish Hall
the Church Society (Ireland) will hold its "Conference 2002".
The subject for discussion will be "Evangelicals and the
Future" and the speaker will be the Revd David Holloway, Vicar of
Jesmond in the Diocese of Newcastle.
Another visitor from the Church of England will
occupy the pulpit in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, tomorrow (Sunday)
morning. The Revd Professor Paul Bradshaw from the Notre Dame London
Centre is an accomplished liturgist. Many will be familiar, in
particular, with his writings for the Alcuin Club and the Grove
Liturgical Study series which have concentrated largely on liturgy in
the early church.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Service of the
Word, conducted by the Revd Tom Gordon, at which the preacher
will be Canon David Wiliams, Rector of Kinsale. From 2.00 to 6.00 pm
there will be an Open Day at the Julianstown Parish Rooms, a new
conference centre in Co. Meath which has recently been completed at a
cost of 500,000 euros. The Rector of Julianstown, the Ven. Patrick
Lawrence would welcome enquiries from those within the church who might
be interested in using this new facility
On Thursday the Sudan Support Group Ireland will open
a photo-exhibition in Kill o' the Grange Library, Co. Dublin. The guest
speaker will be the Revd Andrew Wheeler who has worked with CMS for the
Episcopal Church of the Sudan for the last twenty years.
The Bishop of Cork will lead a Review Day with the
clergy of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in the Palace on Friday when they will
consider the state of continuing ministerial education
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