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Remembrance–Tide Commemorations
Tomorrow (Sunday) there will be remembrance services and ceremonies in cathedrals and parish churches throughout the Church of Ireland.
At 10am the Archbishop of Dublin will be in St Audoen’s church, Cornmarket, and at 11.30am in St Catherine & St James’ church, Donore Avenue, where he will officiate and dedicate memorials. The war memorial from St Matthias’ church (formerly on Adelaide Road) has been transferred to St Audoen’s and the war memorial from St Peter’s church (formerly on Aungier Street) has been reassembled, restored and placed in the baptistery of St Catherine & St James.
In St Macartin’s cathedral, Enniskillen, the preacher at the Remembrance Sunday service will be the Bishop of Clogher while in All Saints church, Mullingar, Bishop Trevor Williams will be the preacher. The principal Remembrance Sunday focus will be, as has become customary, Evensong at 5.15pm, in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin.
During the Remembrance Sunday Service in St Fin Barre’s cathedral, Cork, which begins at 4pm, the diocesan centenary project commemorating World War I will be unveiled. Located adjacent to the cathedral’s war memorial, the Heroes Column, the memorial will be a televisual display with photographs of people from Cork or with Cork connections who died or who were veterans of the war.
Today (Saturday) the Church of Ireland Historical Society will meet in the Music Room of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, beginning with coffee and registration at 10.30am.
This weekend a group of musicians and clergy from Anhalt, a companion diocese in Germany, will be visiting Limerick. They will join in the morning service at St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, tomorrow (Sunday), and will give a concert this evening (Saturday) in St Nicholas’ church, Adare, at 5pm where there will free admission, with a retiring collection for the parish.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in Christ Church cathedral, the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the installation of Canon Neil McEndoo as Precentor, the Revd David Mungavin as Chancellor and the Revd Adrienne Galligan as a canon.
During next week auditions will be held for Choral Scholars for the grouped Dublin parishes of Sandford and Milltown. This will offer music students of secondary school age the opportunity to develop their musicianship and aural skills through participating in liturgical singing at a high level. Further information may be had from the Choir Director, David O’Shea, at [email protected]
Next Wednesday the lunchtime recital in St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, will be given by Florian Kitt (cello) and Aima Maria Labra–Makk (piano). In St Multose’s parish church, the Bishop of Cork will institute the Revd Peter Rutherford to the incumbency of Kinsale. Mr Rutherford has been Rector of Julianstown in the Diocese of Meath since 2010.
On Thursday evening there will be a lecture on the ‘Life and Legacy of St Columbanus’ in St Macartin’s cathedral, Enniskillen, to which all are welcome.
The Celtic Tenors will sing in St Mary’s church, Navan, next Friday evening at 8pm. Tickets are available from Tierney’s Newsagent, St Mary’s Parish Shop, Hugh St Leger (086–8208776), Robert Dier (046–9021898) and Margaret Gorman (086–2357716).
On Saturday 14 November in the Renehan Hall of Maynooth University there will be a one–day conference on ‘Silenced Stories: the Protestant Experience of 1916’, facilitated by Lynda Gould. The speakers will be Professor Roddy Cowan from Queen’s University, Belfast, Ben Levitas from Goldsmith’s University, London, and Dr Mitriam Moffitt from Maynooth. Online booking is available at www.journeyinselfbelief.org/silencedstories
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’