Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 21 April 2012
Church of Ireland Historical Society Meeting
After lunch there will be a paper from Mr Robbie Roulston, an IRCHSS doctoral student in UCD, on ‘We must fight and fight and fight again”: the Church of Ireland and opposition to free Protestant second–level education in the Irish state: 1966–72’. The final contribution will be from the architectural historian, Dr Michael O’Neill, who will discuss ‘A view into Ossory parishes in the eighteenth century: the evidence of Episcopal Visitation returns’.
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Today (Saturday) the evangelical groupings in the Church of Ireland will hold a one day conference in Lurgan, Co. Armagh. The key note speakers will be the former Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Revd Michael Nazir–Ali, and the Bishop of Argentina, the Rt Revd Greg Venables. Entitled ‘First Things’ the conference will seek to celebrate and affirm the essentials of evangelical faith in the 21st century. In the evening there will b a celebration in Shankill parish church led by the bishop of Down & Dromore.
This morning (Saturday) in Dublin there will be a Springtime Sale in support of All Saint’s Church & School, Blackrock, in the church grounds in Carysfort Avenue while in Temple Road, Dartry, St Philip’s parish will hold a Spring Bazaar.
St John’s church, Lanesborough, Co. Longford, is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Today (Saturday) there will be an Open Day with an exhibition of church history and tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) at 3.30pm there will be a Service of Celebration at which the preacher will be the Bishop of Kilmore.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon the Bishop of Cork will attend the opening, by President Higgins, of the new Marymount Hospice in Curraheen, Cork, while in Aghavea parish church the Clogher Diocesan GFS service will be held. At Choral Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh two ecumenical canons will be installed – the Revd Dr Donald Watts is Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and Dom Mark–Ephrem Nolan OSB is Superior of Holy Cross Monastery, Rostrevor. The ecumenical theme will be continued at 6pm in Dublin when the choir of St Paul’s Church, Glenageary, will sing at Mass in the neighbouring Church of Our Lady of Victories.
In the first of three institutions next week the Bishop of Cashel & Ossory will institute the Revd Patrick Burke to the incumbency of Castlecomer in St Mary’s church tomorrow (Sunday) evening. On Wednesday evening in Dunlavin the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Olive Henderon to the Donoughmore group of parishes and on Friday evening in Banbridge the Bishop of Down & Dromore will institute the Ven. Roderic West, Archdeacon of Dromore, to the incumbency of Seapatrick.
The lunchtime piano recital in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, on Wednesday will be given by Lorna Moore.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’