Irish Times Notes08 Nov 24

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Remembrance Sunday

Archbishop John McDowell and Archbishop Eamon Martin will share reflections on the lives and service of two wartime military chaplains on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship programme for Remembrance Sunday. The service, on theme of devotion and duty, will be broadcast from 8.10am, and led by the Revd Dr Lesley Carroll. The Archbishops will speak on the experiences of the Revd James McMurray–Taylor and Fr John Patrick O’Brien SSC, who both served as chaplains to the Royal Ulster Rifles and landed in Normandy on D–Day. Sunday Worship for Remembrance Sunday will also be available over the next month from the BBC website here.

The series of lunchtime recitals in St Ann’s church, Dawson Street, continues on Sunday at 12.45pm when Thérèse Fahy will perform Debussy’s Preludes Book 2. In Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, at 5pm, there will be a Sung Requiem in memory of Ian Keatley, a former Director of Music in the cathedral, who was Director of Music in Southwark cathedral at the time of his sudden death in August.

The Tuesday series of lunchtime lectures in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, to mark the centenary of the death of the composer Charles Villiers Stanford continues on Tuesday at 1.10pm when Paul Rodmell, from Birmingham.University, will speak on  ‘Stanford and Symphonies’.

The Follies Trust & Westmeath County Council will host a launch by An Cathaoirleach, Cllr. Liam McDaniel, of the Trust’s latest publication. ‘The Malone Mausoleum, Kilbixy, Co. Westmeath’ on Tuesday at 6pm in The Atrium, Áras an Chontae, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

The Church’s Ministry of Healing: Ireland will hold a Community Futures Conference on Saturday 16 November from 10:30am to 4pm at the Lady Gregory Hotel in Gort. Designed especially for those aged 20 to 50 years old, the conference will tackle pressing topics like mental health, loneliness, housing, third–level education, and the future of the environment and agriculture. All are welcome and the event is free to attend, including lunch.

The speakers will be  Minister Pippa Hackett, Cllr Shane Hickey–O’Mara, the Revd Johnny Lowden, the Revd Philip McKinley, a speaker from the Mid–West Simon Community, Ms Lydia Monds, the Revd Jimmy Ogwal, and Ms Donnah Sibanda Vuma. Free tickets via Eventbrite or email [email protected]