Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
New Parish Register Publication
Tomorrow (Sunday) is the Feast of St Nicholas and in St Nicholas? Collegiate Church, Galway, there will be a Patronal Festival Eucharist at which the celebrant will be the Rector of Galway, the Very Revd Patrick Towers, and the preacher, the Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd Michael Mayes.
As part of the patronal festival the latest volume in the RCB Library?s parish register series will be launched. The Register of the Parish of St Nicholas, Galway, 1792-1840 has been edited by Brigid Clesham, from Cong, an archivist who has worked in the James Hardiman Library in UCG and who is currently in the Department of Manuscripts in the National Library.
The register contains some 1,360 entries recording the lives of over 1,000 families including old Galway tribe and gentry families such as the Blakes, Lamberts and Brownes. It also details the role of Galway as a garrison town with many references to military personnel and reflects the cosmopolitan and international character of the city with entries for people from places such Trinidad, New England, Bordeaux and Stockholm, as well as from various parts of England, Scotland and Wales.
Register of the Parish of St Nicholas, Galway, 1792-1840 , edited by Brigid Clesham, may be ordered through bookshops or direct from the Representative Church Body Library, Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14 at Euro12.50 (+ Euro1.95 for postage and packing).
Today (Saturday) in Cork the Annual Sale in support of St Luke?s Home, Castle Road, Mahon, will be held from 10 am until 3.30 pm.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin, as Prebendary of Cualaun, will preach in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, where at 7.30 pm there will be an AIDS Candlelight Service of Remembrance and Hope. In Trinity College Chapel the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory. At Evensong, in St Anne?s Cathedral, Belfast, the Revd David McClay, Rector of Willowfield, will be installed as a canon while in Sligo Cathedral the Revd Liz McElhinney, Rector of Calry, will be installed as Prebendary of Tibohine, a position held by her late father, Canon Charles Maguire during his time as Rector of Edgeworthstown. In St Bartholomew?s Church, Dublin, at 7 pm CREDO will give thanks for continued fellowship in the life of daily communal prayer with a service of Choral Evensong led by the vicar, the Revd Michael Thompson.
On Monday in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, the Debt and Development Coalition (formerly Jubilee Ireland) will hold an Advent Celebration. Canon Geoffrey Staton, Team Rector of Penkridge in the Diocese of Lichfield, will speak at Healing Services in St George?s Church and St Anne?s Cathedral, Belfast, and St Finnian?s Church, Cregagh on Tuesday. Canon Staton, who will speak on the theme, ?Restoring Broken Lives Through God?s Grace?, has extensive experience of working with the mentally ill and is visiting Belfast under the auspices of Brother David Jardine?s Divine Healing Ministries.
On Wednesday the Representative Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin. In the evening CMS Ireland will hold a Carol Service in St Philip?s Church, Milltown, at which the preacher will be the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack, who is also Chairman of the Dublin University Far Eastern Mission. DUFEM has reaffirmed its new relationship with CMSI with the Revd Patrick Comerford, CMSI as DUFEM Secretary and Mrs Felix Blennerhassett of CMS as DUFEM Treasurer.
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