Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 8 April 2006
Holy Week Celebrations
Next week is Holy Week, the week preceding Easter which is observed throughout Catholic Christendom as a period of devotion to the passion of Christ. In cathedrals and parish churches throughout the Church of Ireland there will be special services often with guest preachers and musical events with a distinct liturgical significance.
Tomorrow (Sunday) is Palm Sunday when RTE will broadcast Morning Service from Whitechurch parish, Co. Dublin, where the rector is Canon Horace McKinley. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a Liturgy of Palms and Sung Eucharist in the morning while in the evening there will be a performance of Stainer?s Crucifixion in St Patrick?s Cathedral. In St Peter?s Church, Bandon, the Bishop of Cork will celebrate the Palm Sunday Eucharist and consecrate a new side chapel.
The first in a series of Holy Week addresses on the theme ?All for Jesus? will be given tomorrow (Sunday) evening at 7 pm in St Bartholomew?s Church, Dublin. The speaker will be Canon Donald Grey, formerly a Canon of Westminster and Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. The Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will give the Holy Week addresses in Sligo.
On Maunday Thursday there will be Chrism Eucharists with the Renewal of Ordination Vows in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, St Fachtna?s Cathedral, Rosscarbery, and St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, where the preacher will be the former Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Roy Warke.
In St Canice?s Cathedral on Good Friday the Three Hours Devotion will be led by the former Bishop of Limerick, the Rt Revd Edward Darling while in St Anne?s Cathedral, Belfast, the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Harper, will conduct the Three Hours devotions. The Revd Robert Mitchell, Chaplain of the Royal Free Hospital, London, will be the Good Friday preacher in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, where at 7 pm the annual Good Friday concert in aid of the Carmichael Centre will be a performance of Bach?s St Matthew?s Passion by the Irish Virtuoisi Choir and Orchestra directed by Mark Armstrong.
This afternoon (Saturday) at 12.30 the annual meeting of Crosslinks members and supporters will be held at the Irish Church Missions, 28 Bachelors Walk, Dublin 1 where there will be a presentation from Andy Lines, General Secretary of Crosslinks.
Tomorrow (Sunday) a new series of ?Picture Sermons? begins at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, at 10. 45 am. Each Sunday an invited preacher will discuss the story of a European masterpiece within the broader liturgical context of the Eucharist. The first preacher will be the Revd Katherine Meyer, Presbyterian and Methodist Chaplain in Trinity, who will discuss Jan Provoost?s early 16th century painting ?The Virgin and Child in a Landscape?.
On Tuesday the subject of the lunchtime lecture in City Hall, Dublin, on the theme ?City
Hall and the 1916 Rising? will be the Church of Ireland physician, Dr Kathleen
Lynn. A daughter of the Rector of Cong, Co. Mayo, she joined the Irish Citizen Army
and during the Rising organized a casualty station in City Hall and negotiated the
surrender of the garrison. Subsequently she founded St Ultan?s Hospital, the first in
Ireland exclusively devoted to the care of children. The speaker will be the medical
historian, Dr Margaret O hOgartaigh, who is the author of a forthcoming biography of
Kathleen Lynn.
In Sandford parish church, Dublin, on Tuesday evening at 8 pm David Bremner will conduct the Irish premiere of Karl Stirner?s St John?s Passion.