Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes for The Irish Times
Saturday 3 December 2005
Primate?s Child Poverty Forum
Next Tuesday the Archbishop of Armagh will host a Child Poverty Forum at Dromantine Conference Centre, Newry, Co. Down. This follows Archbishop Eames? General Synod address in May when he drew attention to this issue. Entitled ?Decoding Society? the forum will seek to draw attention to persistent aspects of child poverty and to inform the work of the Churches in this area by seeking the advice of experts from state and voluntary organizations.
Among the expert speakers and panelists will be Baroness May Blood, Chair of the Integrated Education Fund in Northern Ireland; Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, President of Focus Ireland; Helen Johnston, Director, Combat Poverty Agency; Professor Tony Gallagher from the Education Department in QUB; Emily Logan, Ombudsman for Children; and Teresa Pesce, a project worker from Barnardos.
The panel discussion will be chaired by the Revd Bert Tosh from BBC Northern Ireland, there will be a reflection by the Primate and a reaction from the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke.
Today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday) the Christmas flower festival entitled ?Jubilate? continues in Rathfarnham parish church as does the associated Art Exhibition and Craft Fair in Rathfarnham Castle, both in aid of Our Lady?s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, and the Church Roof Fund. At lunchtime today (Saturday) there will be a recital in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin by Aine Mulvey (soprano) and Tristan Russcher (organ) while this evening in St Fin Barre?s Cathedral, Cork, there will be a seasonal concert with Cor Cois Abhann , directed by Ian Sexton, and the Kerry Choral Union.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, will preach in St Patrick?s Cathedral while in the Chapel of Trinity College the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Succentor of Westminster Abbey, the Revd Graeme Napier. In St Bartholmew?s Church, Dublin, the preacher at the Solemn Eucharist will the General Secretary of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,, Bishop Michael Doe, who will also preach at Evensong in St Patrick?s Cathedral. At 6 pm, the Revd Patrick Comerford, from the CMS Ireland, will speak on church life in China today at the Christian Study Centre in St Bartholomew?s Church and this will be followed by Sung Compline at 7 pm.
In Benown parish church, Co. Westmeath, there will be a special service to mark the re-opening of the refurbished church after a fire. The service will be led by the Rector, the Revd Graham Doyle, assisted by the former Archdeacon of Kilmore, the Ven. Guy Cave.
The Church of Ireland congregations of St Ann, St Stephen and St Bartholomew will participate in the Dublin Council of Churches? Advent Walk of Light which will take place tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon beginning at 5.40 at St Mary?s Roman Catholic Church, Haddington Road, calling at the Romanian Orthodox Church, Christchurch, Leeson Park and concluding at St Finian?s Lutheran Church on Adelaide Road.
On Tuesday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at a service in the Church of Ireland Theological College for the participants in the Archbishop?s Course in Theology and will deliver a lecture as part of the course. He will return to Braemor Park on Wednesday evening for the College Carol Service.
The Irish Baroque Orchestra will perform Handel?s Messiah in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, on Thursday at 8 pm while on Friday evening at 8 pm in Christ Church Cathedral, the Cathedral Choir will give a concert of Christmas favourites, old and new, entitled ?From Messiah to Mistletoe?