Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
A variety of events involving local Church of Ireland communities throughout the country have been arranged for next week to mark the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Today (Saturday) the Newbridge Inter-Church Committee has organized a conference which will address the current debate over whether social provision in Ireland has kept pace with economic development and will consider whether there has been effective delivery of front line services , most notably in the fields of health, education and social welfare. The principal speakers will be Fr Sean Healy SMA, Director of the Justice Commission of the Conference of Religious of Ireland, who will speak on the social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Revd Dr John Marsden, Rector of Newbridge, who will speak on ?Anglican Social Thought and Social Inequality in Ireland?
The visit of the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, the Revd Dr Kenneth Newell, to Derry over the weekend has been warmly welcomed by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Revd Ken Good. Among other engagements, Dr Newell will address clergy from the four main churches on Monday at Kilfennan Presbyterian Church. On Wednesday the Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson, will preside at a service in St Macartan?s Cathedral, Clogher, where Dr Newell will be the preacher.
On Tuesday there will be an Ecumenical meeting of Cork Church Leaders at Cork University Hospital where the Church of Ireland will be represented by the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton.
Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise will join with Pobal an Aifrin for an Inter-denominational Service in Irish on Friday at 8 pm in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. The theme will be ?Christ, the One Foundation of the Church? and the preacher will be the Revd Clodagh Yambasu. The Archbishop of Dublin will join an ecumenical gathering in Ashford at lunchtime and in the evening will preach in Fairview Roman Catholic Church.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the annual Webster historical lecture-sermon in St Fin Barre?s Cathedral, Cork, will be delivered by the Revd Dr WG Neely, Rector of Keady and secretary of the Church of Ireland Historical Society. In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, a new series of lecture sermons at the Sung Eucharist, on the theme ?Where do we go from Here??, will begin. The series will be initiated by the College Chaplain, Dr Alan McCormack, and subsequent the speakers will be the Minister of Education, Mary Hanafin TD, broadcaster, Olivia O?Leary, Frank McDonald of The Irish Times, political thinker, Steven King, and Professor John Gray from the London School of Economics.
Tomorrow (Sunday) evening in Sandford parish church, Ranelagh, there will be a concert in aid of the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. The concert, which begins at 7.30 pm will feature the choir Voxtrot, directed by Mark Duley, with David Bremner (organ), Jane Hilliard (trumpet) and Sarah Lane (violin). On Monday there will be a lunchtime concert by the Loreto Mandeville Hall school choir from Melbourne, in Christ Church Cathedral.
On Tuesday the Archbishop of Dublin will be in London for the installation of Canon Kenneth Kearon as Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council. Canon Kearon, formerly Director of the Irish School of Ecumenics, has been succeeded as Chancellor of Christ Church Cathedral by Canon Neil McEndoo but will remain on the chapter as 11th canon. At 7.30 pm in the Theological College the Marsh Society will be addressed by the Dean of Killaloe, Dr Stephen White on ?The Future of Christian Sexual Ethics?.
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