Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 26 August 2006
Heritage Week
Today (Saturday) is the beginning of National Heritage Week which provides opportunities for Church of Ireland communities to promote themselves in different ways.
One of the more ambitious programmes is in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, where there will be daily tours of the building and an exhibition of altar frontals. This afternoon (Saturday) the Dean of St Patrick?s, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will give a tour of the Deanery for which booking is required; on Tuesday the Dean?s Vicar, the Revd Charles Mullan, will give a lunchtime talk on ?St Patrick?s at the Reformation?; and on Thursday evening there will be a ?Medieval Pilgrimage Service? at 8 pm. Beginning on Monday there will be daily tours of St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, while on 2 September the Dean of Leighlin, the Very Revd Gordon Wynne, will give a tour of St Lazarian?s Well and Old Leighlin Cathedral.
Today (Saturday) the Merrion Square Heritage Open Day includes music in St Stephen?s Church, Mount Street Crescent, Dublin, played on the eighteenth century organ built by a contemporary of G.F. Handel, while in Co. Monaghan a walking tour of Clontibret includes a visit to St Colman?s parish church. Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon in St Colman?s parish church, Macroom, the Archdeacon of Cork, the Ven Robin Bantry White will take part in a seminar on the protestant cultural contribution to the town.
In the medieval church of St Doulagh, Balgriffin, which is part of the Malahide group of parishes, there will be daily guided tours while on Tuesday and Wesdnesday there will be an exhibition of photographs of the church, and on Friday evening at 8 pm, a lecture by Dr Rachel Moss, from the Irish Art Research Centre, on ?All You Want to Know About St Doulagh?s?.
Today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday) the choir of St Andrew?s Church, Malahide, directed by Rodney Baldwin, will sing the services in Hexham Abbey.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise an informal service of Holy Communion at which the celebrant will be the Revd Tom Gordon and the preacher the Revd Darren McCallig, Curate of Monkstown. At 3.30 pm in Farahy Church, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, the annual Elizabeth Bowen Commemoration will be held at which the address will be given by Dr W.J. McCormack, formerly Professor of Literary History in the University of London.
On Wednesday evening in St Carthage?s Cathedral the Rt Revd Michael Burrows will be enthroned as Bishop of Lismore while in St Saviour?s Church, Arklow, there will be an Ecumenical Heritage Service in aid of the Fishermen?s Mission. In Christ Church, Celbridge, the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Sandra Hales to the incumbency of Celbridge and Straffan with Newcastle Lyons. Ms Hales has been Curate of Leixlip since her ordination in 2002.
The Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Church Music Committee has announced details of a new course on ?Leading the Singing in Church? with the objective of showing those who lead music in local churches how they may get the best from their congregations and choirs. The course will be led by John Dexter, Director of the Choir of the Goethe Institut, Dublin, and for may years Organist and Master of the Choristers in St Patrick?s Cathedral. It will be held in Dundrum Methodist Church, Ballinteer Road on six Sunday afternoons from 5 to 6.30 pm beginning on Sunday 17 September. The course fee is ?120 and further information may be had at www.churchmusicdublin.org or from David McConnell on 087-668 3998.