Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
St Patrick?s Day Celebrations
Next Thursday in churches and cathedrals throughout the Church of Ireland which are dedicated to St Patrick, the patronal festival of the national saint will be marked.
The principal celebrations will, as always, be in Downpatrick, the reputed site of the saint?s grave. The Bishop of Down and Dromore will lead a pilgrimage from Saul to Downpatrick. This will begin with a service of Holy Communion in St Patrick?s Memorial Church at which the preacher will be the Revd Marie Walsh, and will conclude in Down Cathedral where the preacher at an Interdenominational Festival Service will be the Bishop of Albany, New York, the Rt Revd Dan Herzog. The Festival Service will focus on ?Global Vision? and will include participation from representatives of voluntary service agencies. Following the service there will be a wreath laying ceremony at St Patrick?s grave.
In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, there will be an early morning celebration of the Eucharist in Irish and at 10.30 am the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be Canon C.P. Williams, Vicar of Ecclesall, Sheffield.
In the evening in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Trim, the patronal festival and golden jubilee of the hallowing of the cathedral will be celebrated. The preacher will be the Rt Revd David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrew?s, Meath and Kildare?s link diocese, and the Eucharist will be celebrated by the Bishop of Meath and Kildare who was present at Bishop Chillingworth?s consecration last week.
Today (Saturday) the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack, will lead the Chapel Choir on a short tour of Berlin. The Choir will sing tomorrow (Sunday) in the Marienkirche and in the Berliner Dom. Meanwhile today (Saturday) in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, there will be auditions for choristers for the Cathedral Choir from 11 am until 4 pm.
Tomorrow morning (Sunday) RTE will broadcast a Lenten Service of the Word which will be conducted by the Revd Tom Gordon and at which the preacher will be Fr Michael Thompson, Vicar of St Bartholomew?s, Dublin. At Evensong in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, the Lenten address will be given by Mgr Liam Bergin, Rector of the Irish College in Rome. At 7 pm the Annual Service of Thanksgiving for the Gift of Sport will be held in Christ Church, Taney, where the preacher will be the commentator and journalist, Micheal O?Muircheartaigh, while in St Catherine?s Church, Thomas Street, the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Jon Kissell as Minister of CORE.
On Tuesday evening in Lisburn Cathedral the Dean of Connor, the Very Revd John Bond, will install Canon Patrick Rooke as Archdeacon of Dalriada. At the same service Canon Sam Wright will be installed as Prebendary of Kilroot, a position once held by Jonathan Swift, Canon William Bell as Prebendary of Connor, and Canon G.E. Graham as Prebendary of Cairncastle. On Tuesday and Wednesday the clergy of Meath and Kildare will have a Retreat in Westport led by the Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson.
The final lunchtime lecture in the Lenten series in St Iberius? Church, Wexford, on a selective look at the Old Testament, will be held on Wednesday when the Revd Dr John Bartlett will consider the ?Wisdom of Solomon?. In the evening, in Dublin, the Kilmacud-Stillorgan Local History Society will host a talk in St Brigid?s Parish Centre, Stillorgan, by Mr Bryan MacMahon on ?Richard Whately of Redesdale?. This will be followed by the launch of Mr MacMahon?s new study of Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, 1831-63, entitled Eccentric Archbishop.
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