Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland News from 'The Irish Times'
CMSI Project in KenyaA team of 36 pupils and leaders from Limavady Grammar School will be travelling to Kenya on Tuesday. They are a cross-community team who will be completing the construction of a girls’ secondary school in Kajiado Diocese. There are currently three teachers and fifteen pupils at the Oloosuyian School which will seek to encourage girls from Maasai culture to receive a second level education with sponsored places to support them.
This team marks the tenth anniversary of the partnership between LGS and Kajiado Diocese. Over the last 10 years £100,000 has been raised for projects in the Kenyan diocese supporting water schemes, education and training. The whole community in Limavady has supported this partnership and has been involved with fundraising and raising awareness of the needs of the people in Kajiado. This will be the third team of pupils to travel Kenya over the last 10 years.
CMS Ireland has been in partnership with Kajiado Diocese for over thirty years. They have facilitated and trained the teams from LGS and guided this partnership with their expertise in the field. CMS Ireland is eager to see the model repeated with other schools in Ireland.
Today (Saturday) the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will hold his Annual Gift day in the cathedral. This year he is seeking support for the cleaning and decoration of the Lady Chapel which it is estimated will cost €500,000. In St Fin Barre’s cathedral, Cork, the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus will attend Evensong, followed by a reception in the Palace, and tomorrow (Sunday) they will attend the Cathedral Eucharist at which the Bishop of Cork, who is a Chaplain/Knight of the order, will preside and preach.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, will mark RSCM Sunday with Choral Matins at which the preacher will be Bro. Cyprian Love OSB from Glenstal Abbey. In the afternoon at 3.30pm, in Christ Church Cathedral, the Archbishop of Dublin will raise four deacons to he priesthood – the Revds Paul Arbuthnot, Terry Lilburn, Martha Waller and Ken Rue – while in St Columb’s Cathedral the Bishop of Derry & Raphoe will ordain Arthur Burns to the diaconate.
The Down & Dromore Diocesan Synod will be held next Tuesday at Seagoe parish church while in the evening the Archbishop of Dublin will open ‘Fiat Lux’ an exhibition of bibles in Marsh’s Library.On the eve of St Peter’s Day, eight Church of Ireland clergy will celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of their ordination to the priesthood. The Rt Revd DAR Caird, the Rt Revd SG Poyntz, Canon JG Mercer, Canon EJ Shepherd, Canon RW Marsden and Canon DCL Jamieson will join in a celebration of the Eucharist in Christ Church, Dun Laoghaire. Two other clergy who were priested in 1951, Canon Stanley Pettigrew and Canon WH Lendrum are unable to join their colleagues for this celebration.
On Wednesday the Dean of St Patrick’s will preach in St Mary’s church, Killarney, at a service to mark the 50th anniversary of the ordination of Canon Brian Lougheed. At the lunchtime organ recital in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Peter Barley will play works by Buxtehude and Carl Nielson.
In St Matthew’s church, Westminster, on Thursday, Canon Patrick Comerford, from the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, will be one of the speakers at a conference, ‘Thy Kingdom Come. Prayer and Mission in the Building of the Kingdom’, which has been organized by Affirming Catholiclism. Canon Comerford will speak on the work of USPG.
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