Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 27 August 2010
Heritage Week Concludes
This weekend brings the final events in this year’s Heritage Week .
A one-day conference on the history of the diocese of Kilmore will be held at Cavan County Museum, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan, today (Saturday). The conference will deal with the experiences of the churches in the Cavan/Kilmore region. Church of Ireland participants include the Bishop of Kilmore, the Rt Revd Kenneth Clarke, Dr Susan Hood from the RCB Library and the historian, the Revd Dr John Crawford, who has written widely on the church in Victorian Dublin.
In Dublin there will be a Cathedral Acoustic Exhibition in Christ Church and St Patrick’s cathedrals from 10.30am until 5pm. This will allow visitors to ‘virtually’ experience the acoustics of both buildings.. In Christ Church there will be a heritage tour at 11am and at 1.15pm Sue Hemmens will give a tour of the cathedral music.
St John’s Church, Sandymount, will be open today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday) for an exhibition of vestments and frontals while St Doulagh’s medieval church in Balgriffen will be open tomorrow afternoon.
Today (Saturday) there will be a commemoration at Cork City Gaol of the ‘Eliza 4’. The Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will lead prayers of remembrance for Church of Ireland females who were transported to Australia from Cork City Gaol in the early 1800s.
This weekend the St Patrick’s Cathedral Girls’ Choir will visit St David’s Cathedral in Wales where they will sing the services today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday). In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Evensong will be sung today by the Rawsthorne Singers who will also sing he services tomorrow (Sunday).
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning at the conclusion of the annual Charles Wood Summer School the Charles Wood Boys’ Choir will sing at the Eucharist in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, where at 5pm there will be Festal Evensong sung by the Charles Wood Singers and Boys’ Choir.
Tomorrow evening at 7pm in St George & St Thomas’ Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, will institute the Revd Obinna Ulogwara as bishop’s curate in succession to the Very Revd Katharine Poulton who is now Dean of Ossory. Mr Ulogwara who was born, trained and ordained in Nigeria, came to Ireland in 2005 to serve as Diocesan Chaplain to the international community in the diocese of Dublin and he also assisted in the parishes of Whitechurch and Tallaght. He will continue to be Honorary Chaplain to the international community and will also serve a Chaplain to Mountjoy Prison and to the Mater and Temple Street hospitals.
Churches in Ireland are being urged to mark ‘Creation Time’ from Wednesday until 4 October by celebrating creation and considering how they can care for the earth. Eco Congregation Ireland has prepared extensive ‘Creation Time’ resources which can be downloaded from the Churches Together in Britain website – www.ctbi.org.uk/498. ECI is an interdenominational project that encourages churches to adopt an eco approach to worship, lifestyle, community outreach and contact with the developing world.
The parish of Dundalk is launching a new project to restore the Wellington Hall which was formerly St Nicholas’ National School. Built in 1812 the building is dilapidated but in demand for community use. The parish is seeking historical information about the building and would welcome photographs and memorabilia for the years up to 1963 when it ceased to be used a s a school. Material may be sent to Dundalk Rectory, Old Golf Links Road, Blackrock, Co. Louth or copied to [email protected].