Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 15th April 2006
Dublin Choirs Combine for London Visit
The choirs of St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, and St Barthlomew?s Church, Clyde Road, Dublin, will join forces during Easter Week for a choir trip to London.
Next Wednesday in the Church of St Lawrence, Jewry, they will give a lunchtime concert the proceeds of which will be devoted to the Armagh Cathedral Choir Music Fund Appeal. The programme will include items with a particular Armagh connection, including the work of the emminent composer, Charles Wood, who was born in Armagh where his father was a vicar choral in the cathedral.
On Thursday the choirs will sing Evensong in Southwark Cathedral and the high point of the tour will be on Saturday 22 April when they will sing Evensong in the magnificent setting of Westminster Abbey.
The Choir of St Patrick?s will be directed by Peter Barley and St Bart?s by Malcolm Wisner and they will be accompanied on the tour by the Vicar of St Bart?s, the Revd Michael Thompson, who is the administrator of the Armagh Cathedral Choir Appeal.
This evening (Saturday) 3Rock, the Dublin and Glendalough Youth Department, is holding ?Anticipate? and Easter Eve event for teenagers and university students in St Ann?s Church, Dawson Street, at 7 pm. This will be an informal occasion and all involved are encouraged to bring video clips, poems, short stories or any other aids which will assist in the contemplation of Easter.
On Easter Day the Archbishop of Armagh will be the celebrant at the Armagh Diocesan Youth Dawn Service at the Argory in Moy. In Enniskerry there will be a ?Sonrise Service? at 6.24 am in the old Powerscourt Church on the Powerscourt Estate (opposite Powerscourt Golf Club). The lighting of the Easter Fire will be followed by a Procession to St Patrick?s Church. On Easter Day the bishops, by tradition, preach in their diocesan cathedrals. In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, the preacher will be the Dean, Dr Robert MacCarthy, and in Belfast Cathedral, the preacher will be the Bishop of Connor. In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the second in the current series of ?Picture Sermons? will be given by the College Chaplain, Dr Alan McCormack, who will discuss ?The Beheading of Christ? by Puvis de Chavannes in the context of the story of the Risen Christ.
Next Tuesday is St Laserian?s Day which will be celebrated in St Laserian?s Cathedral, Leighlin, where the Dean is the Very Revd Gordon Wynne. Lasarian, also known as Molaise, died in 639. He was abbot of Old Leighlin, Co. Carlow, and founder of Innishmurray, Co. Sligo. He is remembered for supporting the Roman rather than the Celtic calculation for the observance of Easter.
On Wednesday the Archbishop of Dublin will visit the Apostolic Nunciature where the first anniversary of the Pontificate of Pope Benedict will be marked.
Advance information is available about two important events.
First, on Saturday 22 April there will be an interdisciplinary symposium on ?Music and Liturgy of the Medieval Church? in the Department of Music in NIU Maynooth, organized by Dr Ann Buckley, the Revd Professor Liam Tracey OSM, and Dr Kerry Houston. Further details may be had from http://music.nuim.ie/Symposium.shtml.
Secondly, in St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, on Monday 24 April the inaugural McAdoo Lecture will be given by the Rt Revd Christopher Hill, Bishop of Guildford, who will speak on ?Harry McAdoo and the Work of ARCIC?. This will be the first in an annual series in memory of the late Bishop of Ossory and Archbishop of Dublin.