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CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
Saturday 1 October 2005
Compass Rose Society Visit
Next Wednesday the Compass Rose Society, a group of influential North American Anglicans, will begin a visit to Ireland on which they will be accompanied by the Secretary-General of the Anglican Communion, Canon Kenneth Kearon.
The visit will begin in Belfast where they will see the Irish School of Ecumenics, have a tour of St Anne?s Cathedral, and meet parishioners of Holy Trinity & St Silas with Immanuel and the rector, Canon Trevor Williams.
On Friday the group will transfer to Dublin where, in the evening they will attend a concert by the choir of Christ Church Cathedral. They will return to Christ Church on the following Sunday for the Sung Eucharist at which the preacher will be the Bishop of Los Angeles, the Rt Revd Jon Bruno. Among their other engagements in Dublin will be a meeting with the Lord Mayor and visits to the Chester Beatty Library and Trinity College.
Today (Saturday) the Meath and Kildare Diocesan Synod will be held in Mountmellick while in Dublin, from 10.30 until 12.30 CMS Ireland will have an Autumn Fair in All Saints Parish Hall, Howth Road, Raheny, in aid of the Dr Christine Matthews Medical Centre, South India.
At noon the Lord Mayor of Dublin will unveil a memorial plaque to Dr Kathleen Lynn at 9 Belgrave Square, Rathmines. Dr Lynn was born in 1874, the daughter of the Revd Robert Young Lynn, curate of Ballysakeery in the diocese of Tuam, and later Rector of Cong. A member of the Irish Citizen Army she was prominent in the Easter Rising and was active in the War of Independence. As a result of the 1918 influenza epidemic she became involved in founding the first infants? hospital in Ireland ? St Ultan?s on Charlemont Street. She died in 1955.
Tomorrow (Sunday) there will be celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the consecration of St Ignatius? Church, Carryduff, where the rector is the Revd John Auchmuty. The Archbishop of Dublin will preach at the Parish Communion and in the evening the preacher at the Thanksgiving Service will be the Bishop of Down and Dromore. In St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, the Revd George Knowd will be installed as Prebendary of Blackrath and the Revd Tom Sherlock as Prebendary of Aghour on the cathedral chapter.
On Monday the Annual Law Service will be held in St Michan?s Church, Dublin, where the vicar is the Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven. David Pierpoint. The Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the service and the preacher will be the Bishop of Cork who has been studying canon law at the University of Wales.
The AGM of the Church Education Society will be held in the boardroom of the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, on Wednesday at 7 pm.
On Thursday a new series of ?I Believe? lunchtime talks begins in the Church of St George and St Thomas, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, where the first speaker will be Sr Stanislaus Kennedy from Focus. Each talk begins at 1 pm when a soup and cheese lunch will be available with donations going to the Laura Lyn Hospice.
In Cork Public Museum, on Thursday evening, an exhibition of cartoons and maquettes relating to William Burgess? design of St Fin Barre?s Cathedral will be opened by the legendary rock guitarist, Jimmy Page, who is a Burgess enthusiast. A lavishly illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition and may be obtained from the Museum or from St Fin Barre?s Cathedral ([email protected]) at ?15.