Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
St Patrick?s Tide Celebrations
Wednesday is St Patrick?s Day when in churches and cathedrals throughout the country, and especially in those dedicated to St Patrick, the national patronal festival will be celebrated.
As a prelude to the big day the Christian churches in Dublin have organized a multi-cultural fiesta in City Hall on Monday with refreshments and entertainment from the city?s ethnic communities. In Cashel Cathedral the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will preach at the annual Civic Service on Tuesday while on Wednesday the Lord Mayor will attend the Civic Service in St Fin Barre?s Cathedral, Cork, where the Bishop of Cork will be the preacher.
On St Patrick?s Day RTÉ will broadcast Morning Service from St Patrick?s Cathedral Grammar School, Dublin. The service will be led by the Dean?s Vicar, the Revd Charles Mullen, and the preacher will be the Revd David Oxley, Rector of Santry, Glasnevin and Finglas, who is an old boy of the school. In the cathedral there will be a celebration of the Eucharist in Irish in the Lady Chapel at 8.30 am and the preacher at the Sung Eucharist at 10.30 am will be Canon Oliver O?Donovan, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology in Oxford. There will be a similar pattern of worship in Armagh where during the restoration work in St Patrick?s Cathedral, the services are being held in the Synod Hall. There, the Dean of Armagh, the Very Revd Herbert Cassidy, will celebrate the Eucharist in Irish and the preacher will be the Revd Dr Eric Culbertson, Rector of Tullaniskin. The preacher at the mid-day service in English will be Canon Michael Kennedy.
The Diocese of Down and Dromore will host a pilgrimage from St Patrick?s Memorial Church Saul, where the Eucharist will be celebrated by Canon Alan Abernethy, Rector of Ballyholme, to Down Cathedral. The Bishop of Down and Dromore will lead the pilgrims who will be welcomed to the cathedral by the Dean of Down, the Very Revd John Dinnen. Following an Inter-denominational Festival Service there will be a wreath laying ceremony at St Patrick?s grave at 1.00 pm.
In the evening in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Trim there will be a Festival Eucharist celebrated by the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, at which the preacher will be Canon Ronnie Bourke, Rector of Kingscourt.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin will celebrate and preach in St Mary?s Church, Crumlin, while visiting preacher in St Bartholomew?s Church, Dublin, will be the Very Revd Harold Crichlow, Dean Emeritus of St Michael?s Cathedral, Barbados. In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, where Evensong will be sung by the Cathedral Choir and the Palestrina Choir, the Lenten address on the Roman Catholic Church will be given by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. Lady Eames will be the preacher in Kilmore Cathedral where Mrs Helen Clarke is to be commissioned as Diocesan President of the Mothers? Union. At 7.00 pm in Crinken Church the Crosslinks missionary society will host an Evening of Prayer and Praise which will include presentations by the Revd Robert and Sharon Heaney.
The third in the current series of lunchtime lectures in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on archbishops of Dublin, will be given on Tuesday when the Bishop of Meath and Kildare will speak on Archbishop Richard Whately.
In Rathfarnham parish church, Dublin, the Lenten series on addresses on ?Christianity in the Market Place? continues on Thursday evening when the speakers will be Chris Horn, CEO of Iona Technology, and Chris Gibson, Pro-Chancellor of Queen?s University, Belfast, and Chairman of the Centre for Cross Border Studies.
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