Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Missionary Conference in Armagh
Next Thursday and Friday the Church Mission Society Ireland will host a conference in Armagh City hotel entitled ?mpower? which will be part of a week of mission in the Church of Ireland.
More than seventy delegates from across the Anglican world are expected to attend the conference. They will explore relationships between the Church of Ireland and the overseas churches and consider ways to be more effective in their common mission. The delegates, from fourteen countries and four continents, will be involved in relationship building programmes with parishes throughout the island which support their outreach work.
Among the delegates will be the Most Revd Fidele Dirokpa, Archbishop of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and church leaders from Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Zambia. The Revd Andrew Dircks. Coordinator of the ?Families for Families? Tsunami Relief Programme in Thailand, will attend as will delegates from Nepal, India, the Diocese of Albany in the USA and Britain.
On Thursday evening there will be a ?Celebration of Mission? in Armagh City Hotel, hosted by Paul Clark, while on Friday there will be a service of Holy Communion in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Armagh, at which the celebrant will be the Archbishop of Dublin and the preacher the Archbishop of Armagh.
Today (Saturday) in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 11 am there will be a public lecture by the Rt Revd Martin Lund, Bishop of Linkoping, in the Church of Sweden. Entitled ?Longing for Belonging? the lecture will give a description of the new situation in Sweden after the disestablishment of the Lutheran Church of Sweden in 2000 and will also reflect on the ecumenical situation in Sweden. In St Fachtna?s Cathedral, Rosscarbery, the Diocesan Mothers? Union Festival Service will be held.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork will preach at the 125th anniversary celebrations of St Michael and All Angels parish church, Bedford Park, Chiswick, London, while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. At 3 pm in St George and St Thomas? Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, the speaker at the ?Discovery? service will be the South African Ambassador and the music will be led by the Discovery Gospel Choir.
From Monday to Wednesday the clergy of the Diocese of Clogher will be in Dunfanaghy for their annual clergy conference. Among the speakers will be David Bolton, Director of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation, Duncan Morrow, Chief Executive of the Community Relations Council, and David Stevens, Leader of the Corrymeela Community.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in Church of Ireland House, Dublin, on Tuesday. In the evening the Archbishop of Dublin will visit Castleknock where the parish branch of the Mothers? Union will be celebrating its centenary.
On Wednesday at 6.30 pm the third in the current series of organ recitals organized, jointly, by St Patrick?s and Christ Church cathedrals will be given in Christ Church by Timothy Noon. The Choir of St Patrick?s Cathedral will give a fund raising concert in Clondalkin parish church at 8 pm and at the same time in St Mary?s Church, Templemore, there will be a concert by the Kilkenny College Chamber Choir directed by David Milne.
On Friday the St Patrick?s Cathedral Girls? Choir, directed by David Leigh, will travel to Blackburn where they will sing services in the Cathedral of St Mary the Virgin.
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