Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 17 March 2012
St Patrick’s Tide Celebrations
This morning (Saturday) RTE will broadcast Choral Matins for St Patrick’s Day from St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, where the new dean, the Very Revd Gregory Dunstan, will celebrate his first patronal festival in Armagh.
In St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a celebration of the Eucharist in Irish at 8.30am in the Lady Chapel and at 10.45am Baroness O’Loan will give the address at the Sung Eucharist. In the Lady Chapel at 3pm the Royal Irish Academy will launch My name is Patrick: St Patrick’s Confessio which will feature a reading of Patrick’s own words, music from the medieval liturgy of St Patrick by the TCD Choir and a discussion of the book by its translator, Padraig McCarthy, www.confessio.ie At 6pm the Dublin Council of Churches will host ‘St Patrick in his own words’ which will be an ecumenical service with music directed by harpist, the Revd Anne–Marie O’Farrell.
In Downpatrick there will be a Festival Service in Down Cathedral where the Bishop of Down & Dromore will preside, followed by a wreath laying ceremony at St Patrick’s Grave and an Irish stew lunch. Prior to the service in Down Cathedral there will be a celebration of the Eucharist in St Patrick’s Memorial Church, Saul, followed by a pilgrimage from Saul to Downpatrick. The speaker at both locations will be Pete Greig, founder of 24–7 Prayer and Director of Prayer at Holy Trinity, Brompton.
Elsewhere, encouraged by Cumann Galeach na hEaglaise, there will be services in Irish in the cathedrals in Cashel, Limerick and Waterford and in Dublin in Grangegorman and Sandymount while tomorrow (Sunday) there will be Evening Prayer in St George’s, Belfast and bi–lingual Choral Eucharist in Killorglin.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the 300th anniversary of the foundation of St Patrick’s church, Slane will be marked with a Service of Thanksgiving at which the preacher will be the former Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, Dr Robert MacCarthy, while in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Trim, the Dean of Ossory, the Very Revd Katharine Poulton, will preach at the Patronal Festival Service. The series of St Patrick’s tide talks continue in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, at 5pm with Dr Howard Clarke‘s talk, ‘Who was St Patrick’.
Today (Saturday) the Archbishop of Dublin arrives in Hong Kong on his first visit to the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. Tomorrow (Sunday) he will preach at the Eucharist in St John’s Cathedral and on Monday will give a lecture in Ming Hua Theological College. Throughout the week he will visit parishes, welfare facilities, shelters and schools throughout the Province. The Archbishop is making this visit on behalf of the Dublin University Far Eastern Mission of which he is Patron. He is accompanied by Dr Kerry Houston, Treasurer of the DUFEM, and the Revd Dr Alan McCormack, London Officer of the DUFEM .
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning in Magorban church, Co. Tipperary, there will be a special service for the Bishops’ Appeal at which the speaker will be Prospery Raymond, a survivor of the Haiti earthquake, while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the Religious Correspondent of The Irish Times, Patsy McGarry, will speak on Psalm 23 at the Sung Eucharist. On RTE 1 at 10.30pm the first of two part Would You Believe? Special’ will feature the Bishop of Limerick & Killaloe, the Rt Revd Trevor Williams, as he goes undercover among the people in his diocese to find out first hand about their needs, before challenging himself and the Church to do a better job of meeting them.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’