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Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Living in the Light
The Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough will officially begin their year of ‘Come & C’ today (Saturday) in Castleknock Community College, Dublin.
This multi–faith all age service will include music, readings, testimony, creative activities and prayer space where you can take time out to hear how God wants you to be His light within your community.
The aim of this multi–faith service is to invite people to come together as people of faith to celebrate our faith in God and to celebrate the cultural and ethnic diversity in Dublin 15. This part of Dublin has grown enormously over the past generation with Blanchardstown alone having a population in excess of 100,000 people. The hope is to reflect the diverse, multi–cultural and multi–faith environment that can be found in this vibrant and fast–growing part of Dublin.
The service forms part of a yearlong programme of occasional songs of praise type events. Each service will bear the unique mark of the host community with the service on December 12 reflecting the diverse, multi–cultural and multi–faith environment that can be found in this vibrant and fast–growing part of Dublin.
All are welcome to attend the service. Extending an invitation to everyone, Archbishop Michael Jackson said: ‘The enthusiasm shown by members of the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough around the Come&C initiative has been wonderful. It has built up during the autumn with a Come&C Day in High School, Dublin, meetings across Rural Deaneries and a presentation by Dr David Tuohy at Diocesan Synods.’
This afternoon (Saturday) at 1pm the Mornington Singers will sings carols old and new in St Ann’s church, Dawson Street. The Annual Ecumenical Carol Singing on the steps of the Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin, (organised by the Diocesan Council for Mission and the Archdiocese Office for Evangelisation & Ecumenism) begins at 2.30 pm and at 5.30pm there will be a ‘Come and Sing Carols’ event in St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at 3pm there will be an Ecumenical Service of Remembrance for those killed in Paris on Friday 13 November in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook, where the address will be given by the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson.
St Mary’s parish in Nenagh will begin a Christmas Tree Festival with musical events at 1pm which will continue until 20 December when it will conclude with an evening Carol Service. In St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, there will be Carols for All at 3.15pm while in St Brigid’s cathedral, Kildare at 3.30pm the Cathedral Singers, directed by David O’Shea, will sing at the annual carol service. There will be Carols by Candlelight in the medieval setting of St Doulagh’s church, Balgriffin, at 4pm and at 7.30pm there will be a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in St Patrick’s cathedral, Trim.
After Evensong tomorrow (Sunday) in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, there will be an organ recital by Harry Meehan, Senior Organ Scholar at Queen’s College, Oxford, while in St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, 4.15pm, there will be an organ recital by Orly Watson, who is studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
On Friday Mrs Mary Furlong will retire from the staff of the RCB and from Representative Church Body Library where, since 1994, she has been assiduously compiling an invaluable database of church plate, efficiently managing the day to day operations of the Library, and cheerfully attending to the informational needs of ordinands, clergy, genealogists, historians, researchers and assorted members of the public
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’