Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 9 October 2010
Stanford Festival in Dublin
Next Friday a three day festival to celebrate the life and music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford will begin in Dublin. Stanford was born in Dublin in 1852 and received his early musical training in St Stephen’s church and St Patrick’s and Christ Church cathedrals. He moved to Cambridge in 1870 and went on to become Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music and in 1888 Professor of Music at Cambridge. He was a prolific composer and his sacred works are still widely used.
The festival will open with a choral concert and organ recital in St Stephen’s church on Friday evening. On Saturday week the festival will move to Christ Church Cathedral where in the afternoon here will be talks on Stanford’s life and work followed by Evensong to a Stanford setting. In the evening the Hibernian Orchestra will perform Stanford’s symphonic music. The following Sunday the focus will be on St Patrick’s Cathedral where the Eucharist will be celebrated with a Stanford setting followed by lectures from international Stanford scholars. The festival will close with Evensong, again to a Stanford setting.
Full details are available at www.thestanfordsociety.org
The Enniskerry Ecumenical Youth Festival which began on Friday evening with a young people’s ‘Shake House’ event in Powerscourt Parish Hall continues today with Action Project being undertaken in the area by senior teenagers. This afternoon a children’s and young families fun day even, coordinated by 3Rock and CYC, will be held for the Enniskerry area in Powerscourt Church Field. The ecumenical festival will conclude tomorrow (Sunday) with a young people’s pilgrimage walk to the Stagonil medieval church site in Powerscourt Estate which will be led jointly by the Rector and Parish Priest.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork will preach at the Harvest Thanksgiving in Clonsilla and Castleknock, where he was previously rector, while in Ballinadee, Co. Cork, the Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles will be the preacher at the Harvest Festival. In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, founder of Focus Ireland, will preach on the theme of ‘Love’ at the 10.45am Choral Eucharist. There will be a Victorian Afternoon in Summerhill, Co. Meath, beginning with a concert in Agher Church at 3.30pm. This event is in aid of a fund which aims to raise £15,000 to restore stained glass which came form the church on the Dangan Estate.
On Tuesday the Armagh Diocesan Synod will be held in the Synod Hall.
The Bishop of Harare, the Rt Revd Chad Gandiya is visiting Ireland as the guest of USPG. On Wednesday afternoon he will meet the Archbishop of Dublin and in the evening, at 8pm, he will give a public lecture in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute on ‘The Situation of the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe’. At 7pm the AGM of the Church Education Society will take place in the Church of Ireland College of Education.
On Wednesday evening at 8pm in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the organist, David Briggs, will accompany a silent screening of the film ‘Dr Jekyell & Mr Hyde’ and on Thursday evening he will accompany a screening of ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’. In St Peter’s Church, Bandon, on Friday evening organist Eric Sweeny will accompany a silent screening of ‘Dracula’
The new Dean of Clogher, the Very Revd Kenneth Hall, will be installed in St Macartan’s Cathedra l on Friday evening. The preacher will be the Most Revd David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.