Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 27 May 2006
New Christ Church Choir CD
The second in the series of Live at Christ Church CDs is now available for purchase from the cathedral shop at ?16. Entitled Anthems from America the disc features the repertoire that was performed and recorded during the Cathedral Choir?s recent tour of the USA. Also included in the price is a DVD of the choir?s concert at Holy Trinity Church, Wall Street, New York on 9 February.
The disc includes the Sanctus and Benedictus from Frank Martin?s mass for two choirs, Caintic Mhuire and Caintic Shimeion by former choir member, Caitríona Ni Dhubhgaill, and works by, among others, John Tavener, John Sheppard, Marcel Dupré and Gerald Finzi.
Volume 1 in the series, Live at Christ Church, is still available from the cathedral shop while Volume 3, featuring Tristran Russcher at the cathedral organ, will be released in July.
Today (Saturday), at 1.25 pm, the lunchtime recital in Christ Church Cathedral will be given by the Duomo Singers, a mixed voice choir from the UK, who will also sing Evensong at 5 pm. In St Patrick?s Cathedral, at 8 pm the Guinness Choir will give a concert which will include Mozart?s Coronation Mass and Hayden?s Nelson Mass and on Wednesday, after Evensong, the Organist and Master of Choristers, Peter Barley, will give an organ recital.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Alan McCormack, will preach at the Solemn Eucharist in St Barnabas? Church, Greenwich, Connecticut and afterwards will give a lecture on ?Mapping Diversity: Perceptions of ECUSA in the Church of Ireland?. The Dean of Elphin and Ardagh, the Very Revd Arfon Williams, will preach at the Friends of Inismacsaint Parish service while in Clones parish church there will be a Ministry of Healing service at which the preacher will be the Revd Susan Watterson, Director of the Church?s Ministry of Healing.
At the medieval church of St Doulagh, Malahide Road, Balgriffin, the Annual Open Air Service of Praise and Thanksgiving will be held at 3 30 pm. The preacher will be the former Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven. Gordon Linney and there will be music from the 1st Company of the Boys? Brigade Brass Band and from the Portmarnock Gospel Choir.
On Tuesday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will turn the sod of the new Clontarf Parish Centre and will commission the Clontarf Youth Officer, Ms Susan Connolly.
Wexford Union of parishes will launch its website on Wednesday evening in St Iberius? Church. As well as the usual parish details, the site will include an index of over 5,000 names from the parish records, historical information, clerical details and maps relating to the parishes which make up the union. www.wexford.ferns.anglican.org has been researched by Marrianne Young and will be launched by Dr Susan Hood from the RCB Library. The site can be accessed from 1 June.
On Thursday the Bishop of Cork will be in Ashton School for a function to mark the retirement of Mr Charles Payne who has been principal of the school since 1996.
The fourth Annual Ecumenical Lecture, which is sponsored by the Dublin Council of Churches and the Dublin Diocesan Advisory Committee of Ecumenism will be held today (Saturday) week at 11 am in Centenary Methodist Church, Leeson Park. The speaker will be Professor Elizabeth Parmentier who is a pastor in the Lutheran Church of Alsace/Moselle and Professor of Practical Theology at the Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg. The title of her lecture is ?Reconciliation. The Ecumenical Challenge for the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe?.