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Feast of Music In Dublin
This Weekend In Dublin this weekend there will be an unusual variety of musical events with Church of Ireland associations.
Tonight (Saturday) in St Ann's Church, Dawson Street, there will be a performance of J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor by the Canzona Chamber Choir and the Orchestra of St Cecelia, conducted by Blanaid Murphy. The soloists at this Millennium Bach Festival event will be Anne O'Byrne, Collettte McGahon, Robin Tritschler and John Milne. Tickets are available at the door.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Friends of Christ Church Cathedral will celebrate the 70th anniversary of their foundation at Choral Evensong. The service will be followed by a reception in Dublinia at which the CD "Sing O ye Heavens Historic Anthems from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin" will be launched. The CD has been recorded as part of the Christ Church Documents Series in which some of the primary sources for the forthcoming official history of the cathedral have been published. The disc has been produced by Dr Barra Boydell, from the Department of Music in NUI -Maynooth, and features the Cathedral Choir, directed by Mark Duley, and guest soloists.
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening the Gaudete Singers, directed by Martin Cunningham, and with David Leigh at the organ, will give a concert in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin at 8.00 pm. The programme will include Franciso Guerrero's sixteenth century Missa Sancta et Immaculata.
Today (Saturday) a pre-millennium conference under the auspices of the Councils for Mission at home and overseas continues in the Emmaus Centre, Swords, Co. Dublin. The title of the conference is "We Have a Gospel" and the leaders are the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, and the Bishop of Down and Dromore, the Rt Revd Harold Miller. The chairmen of the two councils, the Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd Edward Darling, and the Bishop of Clogher, the Rt Revd Brian Hannon, will attend as will four representatives from each diocese, members of the Association of Missionary Societies, ordinands from the Theological College and staff from Church House.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service from the Chapel of Unity in the Methodist College, Belfast which is the temporary home of the congregation of St George's Church, Belfast, while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the rector of Taney, Canon Desmond Sinnamon.. The Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will visit Cobh, Glanmire and Douglas, while the Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will be in Colooney, Co. Sligo. In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a special service for those who lost their lives on Irish ships at which the preacher will be Canon W.G. Neeley, Rector of Keady, Co. Armagh.
The Bishop of Limerick will preside at the Villiers School Eucharist on Wednesday while the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will visit Wilson's Hospital School in Multyfarnham.
On Thursday at 8.00 pm in the School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies in Trinity College, Dublin, the speaker in the "Theology at the Turn of the Millennium" series of lectures will be Dr Vincent McNamara from the Kimmage Mission Institute. His topic will be "The Challenges Facing Theological Ethics".
The Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, has appointed the Revd John Challender, Rector of Killeshin, to the Prebend of Killamery in the chapter of St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, and to the Prebend of Aghold in St Laserian's Cathedral, Leighlin.