Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 12 May 2012
Next Thursday serving and retired members of staff of the Representative Church Body will meet in Delgany for their annual golf outing. This event was inaugurated in 1926 making the RB Golf Society one of the oldest of its type in Ireland. It was the brainchild of George Butler, then Secretary of the RCB. Having entered the RCB as a junior clerk, he had worked his way up through the ranks of the organisation and clearly had a sense of the value of social activity to break down the barriers between staff and management.
However, the event was given an added significance when Butler’s son, Leslie, who like his father had joined the staff of the RCB as a junior clerk, was killed in an air crash in Malta in 1941 when serving with the RAF. The staff of the RCB chose to remember him by presenting a trophy for the annual golf outing and since then the LB Cup has been keenly contested at Delgany Golf Club each Ascension Day.
This poignant story is the subject of the May Archive of the Month on the Church of Ireland website at www.ireland.anglican.org/library/archive.
This evening (Saturday) Christian Aid and Trócaire “Colours of the World” concert featuring the ecumenical Voices Together Choir from Northern Ireland and Villiers School Choir will be held in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick at 7.30pm. Admission is free but donations for world development will be welcome!
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Bishop of Cork will preside at the Sea Sunday Service in St Multose’s Church, Kinsale. Begun 21 years ago by the rector, Canon David Williams, Sea Sunday has developed into a major annual event in the life of the town. In the evening the Archbishop of Dublin will preach at the GFS service in Athy while in St Mary’s Church, Inistigue there will be a Hymn Festival with the Dean of Cashel at the organ.
Changing Attitude Ireland will be holding services tomorrow (Sunday) to mark IDAHO, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. In Cork, Clive Davis will speak in St Anne’s, Shandon at 11am while in Dublin the Revd Sandra Pragnell will speak in Christ ChurchCathedral at 3.30pm. There will be a service for the first time in St. Columb’s Cathedral, Derry, at 4pm with speaker Paul Rowlandson while Waterfordwill alsobe hosting an IDAHO service for the first time at 7.30pm inChrist Church Cathedral where the speaker will be the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory. The Limerick service will be in St. Mary’s Cathedral at 7pm and the speaker will be the Revd. Jane Galbraith. On IDAHO Day, which is next Thursday, there will be the launch, in St George’s Church, Belfast, at 4pm, of a parish ‘welcome leaflet’ designed for use with LGBT persons.
On Monday evening in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, Bro. David Jardine, Director of the International Divine Healing Ministries, will lead a special service for those suffering from dementia, while in Cashel Cathedral on Tuesday there will be lunchtime concert by the Lulea Youth Orchestra with a tour of the Bolton Library and a retiring collection in aid of the Library.
The Spanish Ambassador will pay a courtesy visit to h Archbishop of Dublin on Tuesday and on Wednesday Dr Jackson will participate in the 1916 Commemoration Ceremony at Arbour Hill.
The Clogher Mothers’ Union Festival Service will be held on Friday evening in Donacavey parish church where the preacher will be the Bishop of Clogher.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’