Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 9 September 2006
New Metropolitan Cross for Dublin
On Thursday, at Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Archbishop of Dublin will dedicate a new metropolitan cross which is a gift from the bequests of the late Canon Cecil Bradley and which is in memory of him. Canon Bradley, as Dean?s Vicar in St Patrick?s Cathedral from 1967-1996, was the orchestrator of many splendid important liturgical events and so a processional cross seems an appropriate memorial. Thursday is Holy Cross Day and the eve of the third anniversary of Canon Bradley?s death.
Both the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin have, by virtue of their office, a cross which is carried before them in procession. The old Dublin cross, of brass, was of no great artistic merit and has now been replaced by a new silver cross which is in harmony with the archbishop?s silver crozier. The cross has been made by Rudolf Heltzell, a silversmith from Germany who has been working in Kilkenny for almost forty years and who is noted for his modern interpretation of many Irish designs.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd Michael Burrows, will preach and celebrate the eucharist at the Harvest Festival in St Mary?s Church, New Ross, where the rector is the Archdeacon of Ferns, the Ven. Paul Mooney. In the afternoon in St Macartan?s Cathedral, Clogher, the Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson will ordain the Revd Margaret Pringle, a non-stipendary deacon in the cathedral group of parishes, to the priesthood while in St Columba?s Church, Tullow, the former Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will dedicate the organ which has been rebuilt due to the generosity of friends from Liverpool.
In Dublin the Dean of St Patrick?s, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will be one of the leaders of the Christian Aid ?Dublin City Walk? which will begin at 2 pm at St Patrick?s Cathedral and continue through the Liberties to St Catherine?s Church. In St Mary?s Cathedral. Limerick, there will be an Open Day, beginning at 3.15 pm, which will include talks on the cathedral plate, windows and bells, and a recital by the Cathedral Organist, Trevor Selby. The day will conclude with Sung Eucharist at 5.30 pm.
Somewhat further afield, the former Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Roy Warke, will be in Canada where he will preach at the 170th anniversary of St James? Church, Penetanguishene, in the Diocese of Toronto. The church was built by Irish emigrants who came to Canada just before the Great Famine.
Next week the Revd Elaine Murray, curate in Kilkenny, will visit the Diocese of Lund in Sweden with which the Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory are linked. She will present a workshop of ?The Hard Gospel Initiative in the Church of Ireland? as part of an international conference.
On Wednesday the Primate will be in Derry to open the new Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Centre in London Street which will then be dedicated by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. The renovated eighteenth century building, which has been used by the dioceses since 1870, will provide office accommodation for the bishop, the diocese and the youth department.
The Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles, is coordinating a service to mark the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the Bishop Foy School which it is hoped to hold in September 2007 in Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford. It is hoped that Old Foyonians will make contact before 30 September with Dr Knowles at The Deanery, John Street, Cashel or at E-mail Dr Knowles