Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from the Irish Times
"I Believe..."
A new series of the popular lunchtime talks, organized by the Revd Patrick Semple, and entitled "I believe...", will begin in St Thomas' Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin on Thursday at 1.10 pm when journalist and broadcaster, Vincent Browne, will speak. On the subsequent Thursdays in October the speakers, all of whom are household names, will be the actor and director, Alan Stanford; novelist and columnist, Maeve Binchy; newsreader and theatre critic Emer O'Kelly; and the former taoiseach, Dr Garret Fitzgerald.
Each of the sessions will last until 1.50, admission will be free and a soup and cheese lunch will be available.
In Dublin this morning (Saturday), in Raheny parish hall, CMSI will have an Autumn Fair in support of the Dr Christine Matthews Medical Centre, South India, and in the afternoon the Archbishop of Dublin will be among those who will sign the Jubilee Petition for Developing Country Debt Cancellation at the Central Bank. The Annual Conference of the Church of Ireland Men's Society will be held in Donaghadee parish church where the theme of the proceedings, "The 1798 Rebellion and the Church of Ireland", will be addressed by Mr Patrick Comerford, Foreign Desk Editor of The Irish Times and a frequent contributor to the 1798 debate. Affirming Catholicism will host a conference on "Women's Ministry - The Future" in the Theological College where the speakers will be the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, Canon Virginia Kennerley and Fr Gearoid O'Sulleabhain CM, while in Castleknock Parish Centre the Association of Inter-Church Families will hold a Family Get Together beginning at 2.00 pm.
In St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway a flower festival, in aid of the church's fabric fund, continues until Monday. Tomorrow (Sunday) the services will be sung by the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin and the visiting preachers will be the former dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, Dr Victor Griffin, and former Bishop of Ossory, the Rt Revd Noel Willoughby.
The Diocesan Choir of Meath and Kildare will visit Co. Tipperary where they will sing at the Magorban Harvest Fesrtival this evening (Saturday) and in the Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Cashel tomorrow (Sunday). In Monkstown, Co. Dubin the community will celebrate the establishment of its first church by St Mochoona in 787. A re-enactment of the crossing of the monks from Inis Patrick, off Skerries, will be held and there will be an ecumenical service on the site of the first church which will be attended by President McAleese.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise Morning Service with the parishioners of Roscrea, Co Tipperary where the rector is Canon Joseph Condell while BBC Radio Ulster will carry a service from the Church of St John the Baptist, Helen's Bay, Co. Down where the Rt Revd Simon Barrington-Ward, former Bishop of Coventry, will speak on C.S. Lewis. The Archbishop of Armagh will preach at the 200th anniversary of Drumbeg parish church while the Archbishop of Dublin will dedicate a stained glass window, the gift of Mr Don Tidey, in Whitechurch.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where the services will be sung by the Lassus Scholars, the Revd Bruce Pierce will be commissioned as Church of Ireland chaplain to the new Tallaght Hospital while in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork the Bishop of Clogher will be the preacher at the Annual Friends' Service as part of an emerging link between the dioceses of Clogher and Cork.
On Monday the Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe will preside at the GFS Diocesan Festival Service in St Brendan's Church, Birr.
On Friday evening the Representative Church Body Library will remain open until 7.30pm.