Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
For Saturday 12 November 2005
Remembrance
Tomorrow (Sunday) in churches and cathedrals throughout the Church of Ireland there will be acts of remembrance for those who have lost their lives in war and conflict in the service of mankind. Some will be grand affairs with much pomp and circumstance: others will be quiet, reflective, and intensely personal.
In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the combined choirs will sing Fauré?s Requiem at the Sung Eucharist while in the Chapel of Trinity College the Revd Professor Roberto Giraldo (Ecumenical Institute of San Francesco del Vigne, Venice) will preach at Solemn Matins which will include the Annual College Act of Remembrance. In Christ Church, Gory, the first British Legion standard for the Wexford branch in over fifty years will be dedicated by the Revd Mark Hayden. Members of the British Legion will be in evidence also in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, for the Remembrance Sunday Evensong at which the preacher will be the Very Revd Martin Clarke PP from St Patrick?s, Monkstown.
A somewhat different act of remembrance will be held in St Bartholomew?s Church, Dublin, at 8 pm when there will be a Requiem in commemoration of the victims of the Armenian genocide carried out in Turkey in 1915. The Requiem will be conducted by Bishop Nathan Hovhannisyan, Armenian Orthodox Bishop in London. Also taking part will be the Bishop of Clogher who has close associations with the Armenian Orthodox Church through his membership of the Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International Commission.
Today (Saturday) at 10.30 am the Church of Ireland Historical Society will meet in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. In the morning there will be presentations by Dr Daithi O Corrain on ?The Church of Ireland and the Irish Free State? and by Canon W.J. Marshall on ?Church of Ireland Clergy Overseas?. After lunch Canon John Crawford will talk about the 19th century Dublin cleric, the Revd Tresham Dames Gregg. At lunchtime there will a recital in the cathedral by Quattuor Voces, and at 5 pm Evensong will be sung by Monkstown Parish Choir.
The second in the series of lunch time history lectures, sponsored by the Friends of Christ Church, will take place in the cathedral crypt on Tuesday at 1.15 pm. The speaker on the theme of ?Aspects of Dublin Parish Life? will be Brendan Twomey (Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland) whose subject will be ?St Paul?s: the management of an 18th Century Parish?.
On Tuesday evening at 8 pm in thr Milltown Conference Centre, Dublin, the Friends of Sabeel (Ireland) will host a public meeting at which the speaker will be the Palestine theologian, the Revd Dr Naim Ateek who is the founder and Director of Sabeel, an ecumenical theology movement in Jerusalem. All who are interested in the Palestine/Israel road map question are welcome to attend.
Thursday is St Doulagh?s Day when there will be a Festival Service at 8 pm in the medieval Church of St Doulagh, Ba;lgriffin, which is part of the Malahide group of parishes, where the rector is Dr Norman Gamble. The preacher will be the Rector of Wexford, the Revd Maria Jansson.
The Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Music Committee has organized a short course in music, liturgy and worship for four Saturday mornings (21 & 28 January and 11 & 18 February) in the Church of Ireland Theological College. The seminars will be led by Dr Margaret Daly-Denton, the Revd Tom Gordon and David McConnell, and will explore why Christians worship, the tools of worship, Christian hymnody and ?making it work?