Irish Times Notes
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Book of Common Prayer in Irish Launch
Today (Saturday) at a special service in Down Cathedral Leabhar na hUrnai Coitinne 2004, a translation of the new Book of Common Prayer into Irish will be launched. The book has been published by Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise, the Irish Guild of the Church, and the translation is the work of the Rector of Aughaval, Canon Gary Hastings.
The launch also takes place in the context of a conference on celtic worship. Among the speakers will be Nicholas Williams on ?The Irish Language and the Reformation? and Ruairi O Bleine on ?The Gaelic Policies of the Protestant Churches in the 19th Century?.
The Honorary Secretary of Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise, Leslaoi O Brien, will speak on ?The Irish Language Guild of the Church of Ireland?. The Guild, which was founded over 90 years ago, aims to promote all that tends to preserve within the Church of Ireland the spirit of the ancient Celtic Church and to provide a bond of union for all members of the Church of Ireland inspired with Irish ideals.
Today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday) in venues around the country Mothers? Union events and services will mark the tenth anniversary of the UN International Year of the Family. In Hillsborough parish church today (Saturday) Ms Linda Kerr, NI Deputy Commissioner for Children, will be a guest speaker while tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Tuam will preach at the Diocesan Festival Service in Ballina.
Today (Saturday) the Meath and Kildare Diocesan Synod will be held at Wilson?s Hospital, Multyfarnham, while in Ballylesson Canon W.J. Marshall will be the witness at a Quiet Day of the Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer. In Cloyne Cathedral, as part of the East Cork Early Music Festival, there will be a concert by Camerata Kilkenny while in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 8 pm, Colm Carey will give the first in a series of recitals to mark the completion of the refurbishment of the cathedral organ.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the tercentenary celebrations in St Matthew?s Church, Irishtown, will begin with a Harvest Festival at which the Archbishop of Dublin will preach while the Principal of the Theological College, Canon Adrian Empey, will preach in St Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, where there will be an Ecumenical Service to mark 100 years of Rotary International. The Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack, will preach in Durham Cathedral while at Evensong in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, the Revd T.S.M. Williams, Chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, will be the preacher at the annual commemoration of the Battle of Britain. In Kildare Cathedral the harvest festival will be celebrated with a Choral Evensong at which the former Dean of Kildare, the Very Revd Matthew Byrne, will preach. At 7 pm in St Ann?s Church, Dublin, there will be a Harvestide Songs of Praise. The hymns will be introduced by the Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven. Gordon Linney, and the collection will be for the YMCA ?Build a Future for the Homeless? project.
On Tuesday evening in Christ Church Cathedral the Archbishop of Dublin will present certificates for the Archbishop of Dublin?s Course in Theology and on Wednesday, together with the Dean of Christ Church, he will be in Iceland for a Porvoo Theological Consultation which will continue until 28 September.
On Thursday, in Dublin, from 10 am to 2 pm there will be an Autumn Fayre in St Conleth?s College, Clyde Road, in support of St Mary?s Home for Elderly Ladies, Pembroke Park and on Friday the Clogher Diocesan Synod will be held in Fivemiletown.
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