Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
EU Celebrations
Today (Saturday) the Archbishop of Dublin will participate in ?Prayers for Europe? at Dublin Castle. Representatives of the three faiths ? Judaism, Christianity and Islam ? will come together to announce their commitment to the positive value of the new Europe. This spiritual moment will begin the official programme to mark this most historic day in the life of the continent when ten new countries officially join the European Union.
In the afternoon, at 3.00 pm, in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a free concert by the Estonian Philharmonic Orchestra and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra to celebrate Estonia?s accession to the EU. The programme will include works by Arvo Part, Cyrillus Kreek and Erkki-Sven Tuur.
The Day of Welcomes will be marked also in Drogheda which will host the acceding state of Latvia. In St Peter?s Church of Ireland the Latvian State Choir, ?Latvija?, joined by Latvian mezzo-soprano, Zane Senavska, Drogheda pianist, Edward Holly, and local choirs will give a concert at 8.00 pm.
Today, (Saturday) in Co. Cork, St Matthias? Church, Ballydehob, will begin a week of celebrations to mark the 175 th anniversary of the church with a Flower Festival. Entitled ?Celebrating Through Time? the festival will run until Monday evening.
Tomorrow ( Sunday) morning the preacher at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, will be the Revd Kathy Galloway, theologian, poet and Leader of the Iona Community. The Clonmacnoise Sunday evening services begin again for the summer season, at 4.00 pm, and will continue until September. In St Fin Barre?s Cathedral, Cork, the Cork Choral Festival Church Music Competition will begin at 2.30. pm.
On Tuesday evening the Archbishop of Armagh will preach at the Armagh Mothers? Union Diocesan Festival Service in the newly re-furbished St Patrick?s Cathedral, while in Drumcondra parish church the preacher at the Mothers? Union North Dublin Area Service will be the Revd Sonia Hicks from Sutton Methodist Church. In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, Evensong will be sung by the Wesley College Senior Choir, conducted by Frank Hughes.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn, on Wednesday evening, the Dean of Connor, the Very Revd John Bond, will be the preacher at a Service of Installation. Canon J.P. Walker, Rector of St Mary?s, Belfast, will be installed as Treasurer, the Revd George Irwin, Rector of Ballymacash, as Prebendary of Rasharkin, and the Revd C.W. Bell, Rector of Eglantine, as Prebendary of Cairncastle. In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, at 6.30 pm, the second in the current series of organ recitals will be given by the Cathedral Organist, Peter Barley.
On Thursday the Archbishop will visit the Trinity College Chaplaincy and will preach and preside at the Sung Eucharist in the College Chapel.
In St Iberius? Church, Wexford, on Friday, the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will institute the Revd Maria Jansson to the incumbency of the Wexford union of parishes. Ms Jansson, who was ordained in 2001, has been curate in Kilscoran, in the Diocese of Ferns, since 2002.
Dr Valerie Jones has retired from the post of Diocesan Communications Officer for Dublin and Glendalough after eleven years of distinguished service, not only as DCO but also as Radio Officer and Press Officer to the Archbishop. She has become a familiar figure throughout the dioceses covering events at parish and diocesan level and frequently acting as a surrogate Church of Ireland press officer for national events which were staged in Dublin. Her energy and dedication, combined with an enviable directness, ensured that the Church of Ireland, within her area of jurisdiction, was never forgotten.
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